South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2805
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Comment
Simon Stevens on local pay and national prices
When doctors everywhere are being urged to become more evidence based in their clinical practice, a standard retort is that health policy makers should do the same.
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HSJ Knowledge
'Twas ever thus: why Darzi is 90 years too late
In 1920 Lord Dawson, physician-in-ordinary to George V, called for the creation of what we now call polyclinics in a report that was well received even by the BMA. So why did his idea never take off, ask Ian Kendall and John Carrier
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News
Department plays down medic supply fears
The Department of Health has tried to dampen fears that the NHS faces a drop in the supply of European labour, which experts say could lead to doctor shortages.
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GP payment scheme must be 'scaled back'
Offering financial incentives to GPs and other healthcare providers is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on the quality of patient care, new research concludes.
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Eleventh-hour changes to GP contract left PCTs with bill
The introduction of the new GP contract led to a 57 per cent increase in payments to practices in just three years, the National Audit Office has found. The huge increase was fuelled by a last-minute concession to the British Medical Association that sidelined the government's own priority to tackle ...
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'Dangerous' surgeons being put on specialist register
Doctors deemed to be a danger to patients are being put on the specialist register and permitted to work as consultant surgeons, HSJ has learnt.
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Comment
Michael White on politics
In more innocent days, when a protester smuggled horse manure into the Commons public gallery one of us coined the joke 'Ordure, ordure' for Mr Speaker to utter.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to spend less while doing more
New national reference costs data shows that in 2006-07 the NHS in England spent less cash on inpatient, day case and emergency care than in 2005-06. Scroll down to view the charts at the end of the story.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: the Fresh Approach to Cash Alternatives Team
To: Don Wise, chief executiveDear Don, as you can imagine, GPs are very agitated at the moment.
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News
Tee calls for cash incentives
NHS Direct could be paid extra to focus on taking calls from patients living in deprived areas or with specific health needs, its chief executive Matt Tee has revealed.
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New super-regulator begins to take shape
Last week the bill that will see the merger of three regulators began its process through the Lords. But there are warnings that detail on the new legislation is sketchy, leaving trusts in the dark over how it will affect them. Charlotte Santry reports
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Monitor fights shy of legal tussles
Monitor will seek to avoid tightening the rules on income from private patients because it fears legal reprisals from foundation trusts, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Media Watch
'A new centre for binge drinking has been identified in the heart of London,' reports The Sunday Times.
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News
'Overburdened' staff put mothers and babies at risk
Too little focus on maternity services and safety by some trust boards is leading to problems, an independent inquiry is expected to warn tomorrow.
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Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.
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Johnson said to favour principles over 'rights'
Health secretary Alan Johnson is against a patients' charter-style NHS constitution, HSJ has been told.
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Scottish budgets reworked
Scottish health and well-being secretary Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled a new funding formula that will see substantial redistribution of funds between health boards.
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Morgan leaves Confed for Wales
Managers have paid tribute to Gill Morgan, who is leaving the NHS Confederation to head the civil service in Wales.
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Candidates will need a 'cross-NHS view'
NHS Confederation trustees were due to meet this week to begin discussing recruitment for the position vacated by Gill Morgan.
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Comment
Speak now to influence the new regulator
This week's analysis of the bill introducing the Care Quality Commission highlights how little NHS and independent sector managers have involved themselves in shaping the new body so far. But the lack of detail in the bill of the nuts and bolts of the new regulatory framework means it is ...