South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2806

  • Comment

    Lousy singer, great lobbyist - Morgan is a tough act to follow

    2008-02-27T17:30:26Z

    As the tributes pour in for Gill Morgan following the announcement that she is to leave the NHS Confederation, it is clear not only how well liked and respected she is, but also how far she has taken the organisation in six years.

  • Comment

    All Our Yesterdays

    2008-02-27T17:20:36Z

    March 5, 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review Within preparations underway for the coming into effect of the National Hospital Service, a number of reports were printed this week on the decisions or provisional arrangements being made as to the allocation of institutions between county and county ...

  • Comment

    This week's lookey likey

    2008-02-27T17:18:35Z

    Timothy Spall is a first class actor and national treasure. But now there is another string to his bow - Professor Wellard of internet site www.wellards.co.uk suggests that he also looks somewhat like NHS Confederation director of policy and HSJ favourite Nigel Edwards.

  • Comment

    Weird world health

    2008-02-27T17:14:57Z

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  • Supplements

    Sustainable communities award supplement

    2008-02-27T16:43:00Z

    The awards winners show how councils, local health services, the voluntary sector and local people are collaborating to tackle some of the most challenging issues our communities face, from climate change to improve public health to community cohesion.

  • News

    Staff sacked after offensive image probe

    2008-02-27T15:09:37Z

    A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.

  • News

    Tories attack drug treatment plans

    2008-02-27T13:20:01Z

    The Conservatives have criticised home secretary Jacqui Smith’s plans to remove benefits for drug addicts failing to comply with their treatment programme, saying they do not go far enough.

  • News

    Practice managers seek lobby muscle

    2008-02-27T13:18:58Z

    GP practice managers are attempting to establish their own national representative body to lobby on behalf of the profession and develop a code of ethics that members can sign as a mark of their professionalism.

  • News

    Campaign seeks to boost social care workforce

    2008-02-27T13:17:47Z

    1 March will see the launch of a nationwide social care recruitment campaign.

  • News

    Funding boost for specialist doctors

    2008-02-27T13:16:48Z

    The Department of Health will more than double the funds available to support the professional development of specialist doctors in 2008/09, health minister Ann Keen has announced.

  • News

    NICE issues first smoking cessation guidance

    2008-02-27T09:00:00Z

    The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence today published its first comprehensive guidance on smoking cessation. It says primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and commissioners should set 'minimum realistic targets' and aim to treat at least 5 per cent of local smokers each year.

  • News

    Doctor contract ballot launched

    2008-02-26T11:53:01Z

    The British Medical Association has opened a ballot of staff and associate-grade (SAS) doctors on a proposed NHS contract.

  • News

    £3.87m health research funding announced

    2008-02-26T11:49:39Z

    Health research funding worth £3.8m has been announced by the Welsh Assembly and the Medical Research Council.

  • News

    Charity calls for dying-at-home funding

    2008-02-26T11:44:16Z

    Marie Curie Cancer Care has said it needs more funding to extend a scheme to double the number of people able to die at home rather than in hospital.

  • News

    Placebos 'as effective as antidepressants'

    2008-02-26T11:40:08Z

    Antidepressants are only moderately more effective than placebos for mild depression, according to research carried out at Hull University.The research, published in the Public Library of Science Journal, said that when unpublished clinical trial data was included, their benefit fell below accepted levels.

  • News

    £170m to be invested in talking therapies

    2008-02-26T11:36:43Z

    £170m is to be invested in a training programme for 3,600 psychological therapists and to increase access to low and high-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    A check-up for nurses

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1

  • HSJ Knowledge

    A check-up for nurses

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The risky business of ignorance

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new report suggests that organisations in the health sector have a misplaced confidence about their ability to cope with uncertainty and change

  • News

    quotes

    2008-02-25T17:47:51Z

    "Gill has made NHS Confederation into the most effective trade association in the country without doubt." John Restell, chief executive, MiP. "Under her leadership the NHS has had real credibility nationally. She has been a really important figure in a very important transitional phase of NHS management." Jan Filochowski, interim ...