South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2756
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Stephen Ramsden addresses Patient Safety Congress
NHS managers have been urged to pressurise chief executives to make patient safety their organisation's top priority.
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Commercial directorate's future in the air
The future of the Department of Health's commercial directorate is in doubt following the resignation of its director general Channing Wheeler.
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Safer culture is taking root
Your cover story identified a disparity between where NHS staff and leaders feel patient safety is on boards' priorities, writes Martin Fletcher
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Patient records neglect
We are not surprised to learn of the wide disparities between trusts when it comes to the availability of patient records revealed by your investigation, writes Tracy Steadman
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Alcohol and public health
The Health is Wealth Commission's recommendation that local authorities use the planning process to reduce the harm done to public health by easily available alcohol is bound to provoke a stormy debate, writes Frank Soodeen
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BMA muddled over polyclinics
Our independent patient-interest social enterprise has consultated on the complex issue of GPs and polyclinics. The British Medical Association's campaign to persuade patients to oppose them is ill-judged and muddled, writes Elizabeth Manero
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Baroness Young is right for new regulator
We welcome the appointment of Baroness Young as the shadow chair of the Care Quality Commission, writes John Dixon
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Fuel disaster looming
Your news analysis on rising fuel prices and its impact on hospitals was timely but it only scratched the surface, writes Stuart Jeffery
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BMA pay hypocrisy
The hypocrisy of the British Medical Association's contrasting pay policy for staff and doctors is no surprise, writes Joyce Robins
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NHS sixties memories
Your photos of people who worked in healthcare in the 1950s and 1960s on your NHS60 website (www.nhs60.co.uk) have brought memories flooding back, writes Susan Bethell
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HSJ Knowledge
Is world class commissioning the answer?
Two healthcare management experts lock horns over whether the drive to raise the standard of commissioning really can transform the quality of care
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HSJ Knowledge
Quality has to bind the Darzi recipe for reform
Improving quality will become the national priority under the Darzi review. This essential ingredient for reform should bring together better commissioning, better skills and greater incentives for organisations and clinicians
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Comment
Sophia Christie on world class organisations
The assurance process for world class commissioning is developing apace but with no national development programme, many in primary care trusts are wondering where to focus attention.
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Darzi review: North East sets targets for 'region of paradox'
Eight-month targets designed to eliminate health service 'paradoxes' are the cornerstone of NHS North East's Darzi vision.
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Share rising mental health costs, says King's Fund
The cost of mental health services is expected to rise by 45 per cent over the next 20 years, the King’s Fund has predicted.But in its long-awaited report on the future funding of mental health services, it says the NHS should not be expected to fund the increased cost alone.
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Comment
Michael White on dementia services
Being in government is a bit like fighting forest fires, the kind that sweep through tinder-dry acres in countries a lot hotter than ours.
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Hospital trusts failing to check inpatients' risk of deadly clots
More than half of hospital trusts are not carrying out government-backed checks for vascular conditions that kill around 25,000 people a year. Only 29 per cent of trusts carry out checks for all inpatients.
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Comment
This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, June 4 1948From the National Association of Local Government Social Welfare Officers annual conference presidential address: "The conference meets as a time when changes in the social welfare and assisting services are about to be out into operation and when members of ...
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Jo Davis on forming a successful council of governors
One year on from rising to the challenge of chairing her first governors' meeting, Jo Davis explains how the steps she took to prepare herself allowed an open and interactive group to flourish
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GPs call for public support
The British Medical Association today placed adverts in five national newspapers in a bid to drum up public support for a campaign against private companies running GP surgeries.