South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2768
-
Comment
Your Humble Servant on getting to grips with nurses
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRE: Go with the Flo
-
News
Norman Lamb critical of 'opaque' DH leadership
The Liberal Democrats' health spokesman has criticised the 'complete lack of transparency' around Department of Health decisions.
-
News
Channing Wheeler's plans for market end rumours of commercial break
Reports of the demise of private sector involvement in the NHS last year were premature, as Department of Health commercial director Channing Wheeler is developing the tools to allow local managers to turn the service into a market. He talks to Sally Gainsbury
-
News
Foundation trusts must improve on MRSA
Monitor has warned four foundation trusts it will intervene if they fail to improve performance on MRSA. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals, Calderdale and Huddersfield, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Poole Hospital were told they had breached their terms of authorisation.
-
News
Barbara Young to chair Care Quality Commission
The proposed chair of the new super-regulator has been welcomed as an 'inspirational' leader. Baroness Barbara Young, currently the Environment Agency chief executive, has been named as the Department of Health's preferred candidate to chair the shadow Care Quality Commission.
-
News
Monitor plans for foundation trust failures
Foundation trust regulator Monitor is anticipating that some 47 acute and mental health trusts will not make it to foundation trust status by 2010.
-
News
Media Watch: election time
Most of the weekend was spent dissecting implications of the local elections, which hinted that the next government would be blue.
-
News
Foundation trust directors earning up to 25 per cent more
Foundation trust finance directors are earning 16 per cent more than their non-foundation trust counterparts, according to a survey that adds to evidence of a growing 'pay gap'.
-
Comment
Michael White on NICE decisions
Did you hear Ian Gibson, left wing MP for Norwich North, giving Gordon Brown a piece of his mind in the wake of Labour's disastrous performance in the local elections?
-
News
Community foundation trust challenges
As your article on the NHS Confederation report on aspirant community foundation trusts acknowledges, the move towards this status is challenging, writes David Stout
-
News
David Cameron's praise for joined-up GPs
It was reassuring to hear a politician praise the work of GPs and acknowledge the core values of general practice: the unique relationship between GP and patient; integrated, continuous care and lifelong care, writes Steve Field
-
News
Polyclinics are wrong for London
So provided what happens in London is good news for strategic health authorities and ministers - fine. And we naively thought the goal was a patient centred service, writes Roger Goss
-
Blogs
No faith in evidence-based medicine
Daragh Fahey’s childlike faith in evidence-based medicine should not go unchallenged, writes Norma Butler
-
HSJ Knowledge
Perfect union: why partnerships must seek local public opinion
The health service has a long history of joint working. To build on this, it must recognise local need as a bigger priority than targets and keep decision makers close to communities
-
News
Focus on GP hours is too narrow says PCT Network
The government has been warned to broaden its approach to improving primary care services beyond a focus on extended hours.
-
News
DH toughens line on GP exception reporting
Primary care trusts must ensure they have a strategy in place on GP exception reporting, a health inequalities official has warned.
-
News
Darzi polyclinic proposals branded 'pie in the sky'
Lord Darzi’s London blueprint has been described as ‘pie in the sky’ after a three-month consultation.
-
News
Community services tariff opens way to private provision
The Department of Health is to develop a tariff for community services - paving the way for foundation trusts and the private sector to offer services until now provided by primary care trusts.
-
News
Health managers seek clarity on PCT assets
Health managers are calling for clarity on how primary care trusts should manage their assets when separating commissioner and provider functions.
-
News
Darzi review: PCTs told reforms must save lives
Junior health minister Lord Darzi is to tell primary care trusts they can reconfigure local services only where they can prove it will save lives or improve health outcomes.