South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2821
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HSJ Knowledge
Making 2008 the year of race equality in the NHS
With the new year come new opportunities to improve the health service and strengthen its commitment to racial equality. Helen Hally shares her NHS wish list for 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
Breaking bread - the way to bridge cultural differences
Cooking helps faiths and peoples integrate. It's a great way to learn about others and ourselves, says acclaimed food writer Claudia Roden
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HSJ Knowledge
Recipes for success from Race for Health
Why not click through and cook the latest fantastic meal from Race for Health? It's the NHS's flagship programme for supporting better health in black and minority ethnic communities. Each month includes a new easy-to-prepare dish plus a faith calendar, key facts and best practice from one of Race for ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Making 2008 the year of race equality in the NHS
With the new year come new opportunities to improve the health service and strengthen its commitment to racial equality. Helen Hally shares her NHS wish list for 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
Breaking bread - the way to bridge cultural differences
Cooking helps faiths and peoples integrate. It's a great way to learn about others and ourselves, says acclaimed food writer Claudia Roden
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HSJ Knowledge
Recipes for success from Race for Health
Why not click through and cook the latest fantastic meal from Race for Health? It's the NHS's flagship programme for supporting better health in black and minority ethnic communities. Each month includes a new easy-to-prepare dish plus a faith calendar, key facts and best practice from one of Race for ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Sexuality - stamping out discrimination in the workplace
Equality campaigns in health and social care have often overlooked the issue of sexuality and it is time that this changed, says Blair McPherson
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News
Volunteering in Cambodia: surviving the first two months
In the second of a series on volunteering abroad in the health service, Patricia Sloan talks about her new life in Cambodia and shares photos from her adventure
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News
NHS database lacks support, survey claims
Nine out of 10 doctors have no confidence in the security of the proposed centralised NHS database, according to a poll of more than 200 doctors by the BMA News.
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News
Agency staff overpaid, claim Conservatives
Agency staff - including managers, finance staff and nurses - are being paid inflated hourly wages, the Conservative Party has claimed.
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News
Patient experience research centre opens
A centre for the research of patient experiences will be launched in Scotland as part of the Better Together programme.
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News
Campaign promotes antibiotics best practice
A national campaign is to be launched to remind doctors of the rise in antibiotic resistance and make it clear to patients that antibiotics will not get rid of the common cold.
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News
Learn from patient safety failures, trusts urged
Poor leadership, ineffective management and inadequate teamwork are common to failings in patient safety, the Healthcare Commission has said.A report looking at lessons from 14 investigations said the boards of failing trusts often concentrated on work such as meeting targets or mergers at the expense of other activities.
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Comment
World class credibility gap in the NHS
Management and leadership are a lot about clarifying a desired future and then helping people and organisations to get there. 'Clarity' and 'help' are not used often enough to describe NHS management. However, 'world class commissioning' does not clarify or help. It is likely to become 'wc' commissioning and be ...
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Comment
World class credibility gap in the NHS
Management and leadership are a lot about clarifying a desired future and then helping people and organisations to get there. 'Clarity' and 'help' are not used often enough to describe NHS management. However, 'world class commissioning' does not clarify or help. It is likely to become 'wc' commissioning and be ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Ramsden on punitive processes
How best can we drive up quality and safety in the NHS? The Darzi review will be important in determining the right balance between regulation and organisationally driven approaches. This is not an either/or scenario. We need both, but too much regulation will be counter-productive and demoralising to staff.
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HSJ Knowledge
Social movements in the health service
A hospital division has achieved unified working by agreeing a charter for staged change, write Jon Baber and Mary Sexton
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HSJ Knowledge
Value for many - improving learning difficulties services
A consultation on learning difficulties services seeks to help most service users to live in the community, while increasing monitoring and support. Mark Gould reports
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ talks to NHS Networks head Edna Robinson
Whether leading from the front or prompting from the side, Edna Robinson's goal has always been joined-up thinking, she tells Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Jones on screening and strategy
The 60th birthday of the NHS has been talked about for so long that you could be forgiven if, like me, you thought it was going to be last year. 2008 was only a few days old when both party leaders flashed their health policy credentials.