South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2776
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient satisfaction - how do you score?
An area's population profile shapes patients' perceptions of service quality, with greater diversity bringing a wider array of demands. This suggests trusts should make more effort to understand their public
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News
Audiology waiting times slashed at last minute
Trusts' last-minute push to hit an audiology assessment target has led to a dramatic fall in waiting times for diagnostic services.
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Vascular checks could mean insurance hikes
Thousands of people face higher health insurance premiums and may unwittingly invalidate their policies if government plans for vascular checks get the green light.
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Breaking away: Wales maps out its own future
The Welsh Assembly has plans for a third way between an internal market and a command and control system, with local health boards losing control of the commissioning purse strings. Alison Moore explains
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London must focus on prevention
Service reform in the capital must go beyond Healthcare for London proposals and focus on prevention if fatal strokes are to be avoided, the London health observatory has warned.
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Insurance scheme could pay for social care
The NHS Confederation has said a compulsory insurance scheme may be the best way to fund social care for the elderly.
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Union rejects staged pay deal
Unite, the third largest union in the NHS, has rejected the proposed three-year NHS pay deal.It argues that the deal, which is nominally worth around 8 per cent over three years, could be worth much less if inflation rises higher than Treasury expectations.
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Expectant mothers urged not to cut calories
The Royal College of Midwives has stressed that women who are trying to conceive should eat a balanced diet, after research claimed that women who ate a high-calorie diet were more likely to have a boy.
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Keogh appointed head of informatics
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed interim director general for informatics at the Department of Health. He replaces Matthew Swindells, who is to join the consultancy Tribal.
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Dental association calls for reforms
The British Dental Association has called on the Scottish government to change the criteria dentists must meet to be deemed 'committed' to the NHS.
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Comment
This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, 30 April 1948From a study of old age, carried out by the Nuffield Foundation Survey Committee on people in Wolverhampton."In the great majority of instances the old people enjoy their food and eat ordinary food. Among women, however, a larger proportion ...
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Comment
Another coat of arms suggestion for Sir Robert Naylor
David Poynton, chair of consultancy Public Sector Consultants (formerly Robert's finance director at Heartlands trust for 10 years - we are still on speaking terms, he says) writes to suggest a coat of arms for Robert Naylor (End Game, passim). He explains it thus: "The heraldic meaning is as follows; ...
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Comment
'Lunatic' goings-on in Welsh government
From our kind friends on the news desk comes the following intriguing tale of a Conservative MP who seems to have developed the power of second sight.First minister ofWales, Labour’s Rhodri Morgan launched a stinging attack against a Conservative assembly member for his “farcical” and “lunatic” attempt to discredit the ...
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Comment
Awards preview
Managing long term care sponsored by Sanofi AventisThe growing number of community matrons working across and covering just about every GP practice in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care trust patch – there are now 39 – is just one indicator of the success of the county’s ...
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Comment
Bedside manna - a new ethos of care
Martin Winbolt-Lewis advocates moving away from mechanistic approaches to patient care and embracing an empathetic, holistic approach to caring for people who are ill or injured
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Comment
Deep clean - a patient's view
What did service users make of the government's deep-clean initiative? We asked one woman to tell us what happened when the cleaners arrived on her ward
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News
Drug abuse tops list of social evils
A new report examining today's social problems has highlighted the misuse of drugs and alcohol as ongoing concerns.
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Wales announces autism plans
The Welsh Assembly has announced wide-ranging efforts to tackle autism and improve services for those affected by the condition.
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MS adverts highlight care options
The Multiple Sclerosis Society has launched MS Week 2008 with a series of adverts designed to encourage people living with the condition to explore the help available.
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More choosing to die at home, report shows
Significantly more people have been helped to choose to die in their own homes at no greater cost to the NHS as part of a Marie Curie pilot project, a report by the King's Fund has found.