South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2784

  • News

    Swindells to go private with Tribal

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health's interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department and the NHS for the private consultancy Tribal.

  • News

    Wales to axe most local health boards

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    The Welsh Assembly has announced plans to slash the number of local health boards and strip them of their commissioning role.

  • News

    Kent trust buys out 22-bed private wing

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    A hospital trust that is bidding for foundation status has bought a private hospital wing to help it continue to hit the 18-week maximum waiting time target.

  • Comment

    Noel Plumridge on boardroom drama

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    The setting: A hospital boardroom. A meeting of the executive team of an NHS trust is about to take place.

  • News

    Trusts come together but deny merger speculation

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    Three London foundation trusts have confirmed they will be part of the capital's second academic health science centre, but denied a merger was on the cards 'for the foreseeable future'.

  • News

    Alliance - let firms help PBC

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    Consortia of practice based commissioning GPs should be able to bypass primary care trusts and buy commissioning support from the private sector, the NHS Alliance is demanding.

  • News

    GPs committee issues guidance on extended access

    2008-04-09T12:49:00Z

    The British Medical Association GPs committee has drawn up guidance to explain changes to the GP contract on extended access.

  • News

    Wales draws up plans to stop hospital violence

    2008-04-09T12:44:00Z

    The Welsh Assembly is to draw up an action plan on tackling violence and aggression in hospitals and other health centres.

  • News

    Unions criticise NHS pay deal

    2008-04-09T12:38:00Z

    Eight unions representing health sector workers have joined forces to criticise the multi-year pay offer for NHS staff announced this week.

  • News

    £45m earmarked for biomedical research

    2008-04-09T12:33:00Z

    The Department of Health is to invest £45m in 12 new biomedical research units as part of a drive to prevent, diagnose and treat heart disease, asthma and obesity.

  • News

    Staff survey points to poor communication

    2008-04-09T12:00:00Z

    The views of thousands of NHS employees have been published in the Healthcare Commission's fifth annual staff survey.The survey reveals that, while staff are generally satisfied in their jobs, communication with senior management is often seen as poor.

  • Comment

    Awards

    2008-04-09T10:56:32Z

    Improving care with TechnologyThe highly impressive life and cost saving outcomes of the NHS North West and BroomWell HealthWatch telemedical electrocardiogram (ECG) pilot study, run over six months across the Lancashire and South Cumbria cardiac network (LSCCN), didn’t only make their mark with the HSJ Awards judging panel.The potential for ...

  • Comment

    Jerry Fishenden on how technology can transform healthcare

    2008-04-09T09:00:00Z

    Technology has the power to transform healthcare provision, but policy makers and technologists must work together to achieve this

  • HSJ Partners

    New contract for staff and associate specialist doctors

    2008-04-09T09:00:00Z

    Proposals for new contracts for staff and associate specialist doctors have been accepted.

  • News

    This week's All Our Yesterdays

    2008-04-08T16:46:06Z

    Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, 16 April 1948"The views of the local authorities' medical officers on the national health service are bound to be of especial interest. The medical officers, have, of course, on their side been busily engaged in the organisation of their local services to ...

  • Comment

    This week's lookey likey

    2008-04-08T16:42:23Z

    "On opening the 27 March issue of HSJ - I started at the back - [glad to hear it - End Game ed] I was surprised to see the picture of David Bowie - at first glance I thought it was Alan Johnson. Is it just me, or could ...

  • News

    BMA Wales calls for tougher drink-driving limits

    2008-04-08T12:24:00Z

    The British Medical Association Wales is calling for a reduction in the permitted blood alcohol level for driving.

  • News

    Report reveals extent of hospital malnutrition

    2008-04-08T12:21:00Z

    Thirty-one per cent of adults transferred between hospitals are at risk of malnutrition, according to a report published today.

  • News

    Sunbed use raises cancer risk by 75 per cent

    2008-04-08T12:17:00Z

    Eight out of 10 sunbed users have increased their risk of a life-threatening form of skin cancer by around 75 per cent, according to Cancer Research UK.

  • News

    Schools start cervical cancer immunisation programme

    2008-04-08T12:11:00Z

    A £64m cervical cancer immunisation programme will begin in Scottish schools on 1 September.