South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2774
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NHS recruits urged to join donor register
New NHS recruits are being urged to sign up to the NHS organ donor register.Leaflets on organ donation have been included in the induction packs handed out to new starters in the NHS. NHS Careers and UK Transplant are beind the initiative.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving outcome measurement
Embedding routine outcome measurement in an organisation's work benefits staff and patients. Farah Khalid explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Understanding the Health and Social Care Bill
John Witt and David Firth explain the changes that trusts can expect when the new Health and Social Care Bill comes into effect later this year
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NCT offers maternity information packs
The NCT has launched a set of information packs that employers can buy to give to staff as part of their maternity benefits policy.
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Midwives told to reject pay deal
The governing council of the Royal College of Midwives has voted to recommend that members reject the government's three-year pay offer for midwives.
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Healthcare Commission launches spot checks
The Healthcare Commission today launched the biggest inspection programme ever carried out in NHS acute trusts to check whether they are meeting standards on infection control.
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Blood infection inquiry announced
The Scottish government is to hold a public inquiry into why people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV through blood and blood products in the Scottish NHS in the 1980s.
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MRSA levels plateau in England
MRSA bloodstream infection levels have plateaued in England, the Health Protection Agency has revealed.The agency today published its latest quarterly report, which showed that between October and December 2007 1,087 cases were reported, compared with 1,080 in the previous quarter.
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London's red alert on Darzi will affect other regions
NHS London has highlighted concerns over the implementation of Lord Darzi's proposals for healthcare, raising its rating of the risks of insufficient leadership from amber to red.
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Leader
Welsh health service set on different path
Proposals to abolish the internal market, end the purchaser provider split and fund services from the centre are setting Wales' health service on a different course from the rest of the UK.
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HSJ KnowledgeMapping data
The saying, ‘a picture paints a thousand words’, is never more accurate than in the context of maps. Maps are unrivalled in their power to make geographical data more comprehensible.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant at the FT
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: FT fantastic
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Government firm on pay offer in face of threats
The government has made it clear it will not back down over NHS pay, despite threats of industrial action.
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Choose and book update postponed
NHS Connecting for Health has postponed the release of updated choose and book software after the current version gave some patients other people's appointments.
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Exclusive GP practices are unacceptable
I am sure your article 'NHS funds exclusive GP practices' will make local people and the public very angry, writes Karen Jennings
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Payment by results is a blunt tool
Simon Stevens' piece on payment by results summarised some of the shortcomings of the system, but not all the disadvantages as seen from a commissioning and public health viewpoint, writes Peter Brambleby
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Will IT systems work for polyclinics?
The NHS care records service was always intended to enable information to be provided when and where needed, irrespective of care setting, writes Jeremy Thorp
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European Commission warned over drug promotion
Prescribing budgets could come under pressure as a result of European Commission proposals to let drug companies provide information directly to patients.
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Trusts encouraged to foster patient loyalty
NHS trusts that do not grasp marketing opportunities in this era of free patient choice risk becoming 'sink hospitals, withering on the vine', marketing experts have warned.
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Comment
Media Watch: polyclinic row
The polyclinic row stepped up a gear this week as the Tories launched a 'campaign to save the family doctor', warning more than 1,700 GP surgeries could close.