South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2737
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NHS60: Oil in the wheels
The Tribal consultancy says policy change sets off an emotional cycle in those affected - but resistance can be smoothed out
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NHS60: Déjà vu
Healthcare has moved on apace since 1948, with treatments that would have amazed medics of the time. Yet in other areas time seems to have stood still, says Niall Dickson
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NHS60: If the care fits
Experts predict a future in which primary care will be delivered by a variety of suppliers in integrated packages tailored to individual needs, reports Ingrid Torjesen
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Healthy future for the NHS
The biggest challenge for the NHS in its seventh decade is to build a health contract with citizens that prompts many more to keep themselves well, says the consultancy Tribal
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Helen Bevan on the NHS as a global leader
I have just returned from Saskatchewan, Canada. I was invited to the province as a 'critical friend' of its healthcare transformation strategy.
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NHS60: A day in our life
The daily life of an NHS manager has changed hugely since 1948, says Daloni Carlisle
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NHS60: Run with a rod of iron
The formation of the NHS brought together many different organisations, with their own ideas of hierarchy, writes Stuart Shepherd
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NHS60: The reinvention of hospitals
A ramshackle collection of impoverished hospitals dotted the NHS landscape in 1948. Anthony Harrison charts the transformation that has created the modern secondary care scene
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Age discrimination guidance issued
Two literature reviews and two research studies on the costs and benefits of eliminating age discrimination in the provision of health and social care are now available.
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Monitor approves 100th foundation trust
Foundation trust regulator Monitor has announced the authorisation of the 100th foundation trust.
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Median waiting time now four weeks
More than nine in 10 people needing inpatient treatment in England are now treated in less than 13 weeks - with the median wait 4.3 weeks.
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Nine out of 10 patients treated within 18 weeks
The NHS is treating nine out of 10 patients within the 18-week referral to treatment deadline.
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Barts and London apologises to patients for delays
Barts and the London trust has apologised to 573 patients who had to wait an average of 34 weeks for their operations.An investigation by the trust found that one of its seven bookings teams was offering patients operations at short notice, against NHS rules that say 21 days' notice is ...
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NHS estate funding options
Bridget Archibald looks at the estate funding options open to NHS bodies
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Rehabilitation in palliative care: a team approach
In 2003, a unique allied health professional team was set up to work with palliative patients at St Mary's Hospital, part of the Imperial College Healthcare trust. Helene Hibbert explains how it works
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Paul Stanton on local legitimacy in the NHS
In the first article of this series, I began to explore the nature and the scale of the challenges that confront NHS organisations and those who govern them in the first quarter of the 21st century.
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Prison mental health services - jailhouse blues
Faced with huge numbers of mentally ill offenders, London's forensic mental health services are struggling to cope. Rebecca Norris reports
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New tool to assess patient involvement
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed an audit tool to help service providers assess how they involve people in the way they run services.
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Royal College sets out alternative to polyclinics
The Royal College of GPs has published its alternative model to polyclinics - primary care federations, in which groups of GP practices would work in partnership primarily in existing buildings to deliver better patient care.
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Councils should help with PCT management, says think tank
Local authorities should be given a more significant role in health and share more of their expertise with primary care trusts, according to think tank the New Local Government Network.