South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2825
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Creating coaching cultures
Coaching has become a recognised, global profession established in a diverse range of organisations worldwide.
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CSIP Positive Practice Awards
The 2007 CSIP Positive Practice Awards aim to celebrate excellence in health and social care.
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High-Impact Changes in Mental Health Award
Category: High-impact changes in mental healthWinner: People using specialist eating disorders service by improving flowContact: Ruth Carson, tel 0151 4717751E-mail: Ruth.Carson@merseycare.nhs.ukA year ago at theLiverpooland Sefton Eating Disorders Service, part of the Merseycare trust Eating Disorder Clinic, clients could expect to wait 33 weeks or more for an appointment.Clients and ...
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New Ways of Working Award
Category: New Ways of WorkingWinner: The Bromley and Greenwich New Ways of Working projectSince 2002, Oxleas foundation trust's mental health services in Bromley andGreenwichhave been operating aNew Waysof Working programme.Feedback from service users, carers and GPs revealed that a review of outpatient clinics and acute inpatient services was needed to ...
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Ann Keen pledges to support Productive Ward
Health minister Ann Keen has pledged her support to the Productive Ward programme, which is designed to help ward nurses release more timefor direct patient care.
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Family drug and alcohol court opens doors
The first specialist drug and alcohol court in Britain has begun a three-year pilot.
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GPs told to promote weight constancy not loss
Primary care staff should promote weight maintenance rather than loss to improve the health of obese patients, according to a discussion paper in the February edition of the British Journal of General Practice.
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Get involved in child well-being, fathers urged
Children's mental health charity Young Minds had launched a campaign urging fathers to seek help for their children if they are worried about them.The charity said nine out of 10 parents who contact its helpline are mothers.
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Mental health review group named
Members of the group that will undertake a limited review of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 have been announced.
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Scottish anti-fraud measures launched
NHS Scotland anti-fraud measures were due to be launched this morning by health and well-being secretary Nicola Sturgeon.
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Lesley Wright on making everyone a quality manager
Quality is something we all hear a great deal about. But when asked the question 'how do you define quality?' many stop, pause and think, and a period of silence is followed by a variety of responses.
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Public involvement - use strategy to buck the trends
Commissioners, stakeholders and public are tackling health spend issues together within one primary care trust's strategic approach
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Ken Jarrold on an NHS birthday to remember
This year could be the best for the NHS in England for some time. Challenges will not be in short supply, including the 18-week target, infection control, foundation status and maintaining hard-won financial stability. However, it should be the first year for a while that is not dominated by financial ...
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Born in Bradford project takes on infant mortality
Bradford's infant mortality rate is twice the British average. An ambitious project is tracking the lives of 10,000 babies in the archetypal deprived, multi-ethnic city in the hope of understanding why. Emma Dent reports. Pictures by Rii Schroer
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David Woodhead on patient satisfaction
France and the UK may have different approaches to healthcare delivery, but many of the challenges they face are the same
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Career coaching: yes, you can phone a friend
In a new series, management coaches tackle HSJ readers' issues. This week, Dorothy Larios helps a trainee frustrated by a perceived lack of opportunities
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Emergency care - steady progress, urgent need
To help simplify highly complex emergency care processes, one health and social care community has signed up to a whole-system change programme. By Daloni Carlisle
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At the heart of change - reducing coronary heart disease
ISIP is helping to pull together existing work on prevention and treatment to tackle Hull's high mortality rates, reports Alison Moore
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Strength in numbers - mental health partnerships
The providers of services for people with schizophrenia in Liverpool saw ISIP as a great chance to bring the NHS and local authority together, as Helen Mooney explains
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View from the front line: redesigning care
Understanding the concerns and challenges facing staff on the ground is essential to good management. In this new series HSJ goes back to the floor to get the views and opinions of frontline workers