South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2746
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Comment
Lisa Rodrigues on being there for your staff
Bill Clinton used to say the most important attribute of a leader was being there. This gets tested when things go wrong, but also when they are going well.
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Supplements
Skills development: urgent response
Healthcare providers and employers across the UK face an arduous workforce challenge.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to generate staff enthusiasm
Which qualities are needed in those who lead their organisation's services transformation? Triona Buckley sets out one trust's formula
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Ken Jarrold on why Darzi needs nurses
Last November, commenting on the first Darzi report, I pointed out that only a crusade for nursing and a focus on team leaders would improve patient experience.
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David Lee on handling a killing
One piece of news mental health trust directors dread above almost any other is that of a homicide by a local service user.
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HSJ Knowledge
Globalisation and the health service
Globalisation poses challenges for the NHS as it copes with rising demands and the needs of a diverse community, writes David Stout
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News
RCM and Unite threaten industrial action over pay
Members of Unite and the Royal College of Midwives have overwhelmingly rejected the government’s 7.99 per cent three year pay deal.Nearly 95 per cent of 20,000 Unite health service members who voted were against accepting the deal, with three quarters of them wanting a strike ballot.In the RCM, the vote ...
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DH evades Treasury cap on central budgets
The Department of Health will use part of its own internal underspend to release itself from Treasury-imposed cut backs in administrative spending. As part of the comprehensive spending review the Treasury imposed a two per cent (£5m) reduction each year to the DH’s central budget of£225m. But in its business ...
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Professor appointed to foundation trust board
The Appointments Commission has announced the appointment of a local professor to serve as a non-executive director on the board of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough foundation trust.
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NHS Choices launches personal service
Over 10,000 people have signed up for NHS Choices’ personalised NHS service in the first month since its launch, storing their doctor’s details and subscribing to relevant health information. NHS Choices admits that the service is limited but will be expanded. Plans over the next two months include personal care ...
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GP to chair palliative care group
Mayur Lakhani has been appointed as the next chair of the National Council for Palliative Care.
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Comment
This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, June 25 1948"The Minister would like to take this opportunity of expressing his appreciation of the work of joint vagrancy committees in recent years in the promotion of schemes for the reduction of vagrancy throughout the country," states the Ministry of Health ...
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This week's lookey likey
A lookey likey from a correspondent who wishes to be anonymous suggests Department of Health director general of NHS finance, performance and operations David Flory is a dead ringer for CSI Miami star David Caruso. What do readers think?
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Scotland passes public health bill
Scottish Parliament has passed a new public health bill that will strengthen health board and local authority powers to act when individuals, premises or any item pose a major risk to public health.
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London PCTs back Darzi vision
London's 31 primary care trusts have endorsed health minister Lord Darzi's Healthcare for London proposals and agreed to move ahead with a network of polyclinics and specialist hospitals.The move follows a six-month consultation on the plans. NHS London stressed it is a 'framework and not about specific services'. However, the ...
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Handle complaints better, ombudsman tells NHS
Parliamentary and health service ombudsman Ann Abraham today urged the NHS to improve how it handles complaints.
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News
Talking therapy spearheads named
The Department of Health has named 32 primary care trusts that will roll out talking therapies across the country.
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Comment
Robina Shah on the patient experience
NHS trusts are aware of patients' views through satisfaction surveys and the complaints process. These have shown patient dissatisfaction in three core areas: communication and information, the manner and attitude of staff and the hospital environment.
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Comment
Simon Jones on NHS governance
Not too long ago, the Welsh Assembly completed a governance review of all the trusts and local health boards in Wales. Initial reactions were, as ever, 'oh no, not another review'.
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Comment
David Baker on men's health
According to independent body the Men's Health Forum, too many men suffer unnecessary poor health and die too young from preventable causes.