South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2826

  • HSJ Knowledge

    View from the front line: redesigning care

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    Welsh Assembly backs patient compensation scheme

    2008-01-25T12:31:00Z

    A Welsh Assembly committee has welcomed plans for a scheme to ensure NHS patients get compensation in cases of medical negligence.

  • News

    NHS values investigation published

    2008-01-25T12:28:00Z

    The Nuffield Trust today published the results of a major project examining NHS values in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

  • News

    DH asks how best to sack ineffective chairs

    2008-01-25T12:22:00Z

    The Department of Health has launched a consultation on the best way to get rid of primary care trust chairs or non-executive trust directors who are not up to the job.

  • News

    Report raises worries over ultrasound quality

    2008-01-25T12:15:00Z

    A national review of maternity services by the Healthcare Commission has revealed huge variations in quality and raised concerns about the standards of ultrasound checks on unborn babies at a third of trusts.Health secretary Alan Johnson announced extra funding for maternity services over the next three years in response to ...

  • News

    Payment by results consultation published

    2008-01-25T11:49:00Z

    The results of a consultation on the future of payment by results have been published by the Department of Health.

  • News

    Anger over C difficile pay-off

    2008-01-25T11:21:00Z

    The former chief executive of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal is to get a £75,000 pay-off.Rose Gibb, who led Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will only get her 'legal entitlement' of six months' salary, the trust said yesterday.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Streamlining interpreting services in the NHS

    2008-01-25T09:00:00Z

    Changing the way interpreting services are used can save money and improve patient care, as Roz de Silva explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    A guide to the new NHS consultation obligations

    2008-01-25T09:00:00Z

    The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act became law on 30 October 2007. As its name implies, much of it is concerned with local government matters. However, key sections look set to alter the consultation obligations of NHS bodies.

  • News

    Patients report poor access to GP services

    2008-01-24T12:59:00Z

    One in five patients is still finding it difficult to get a convenient appointment to see their GP, a survey by consumer campaigners Which? has found.

  • News

    Dementia services lag behind need, MPs claim

    2008-01-24T12:55:00Z

    The prevalence and scale of suffering from dementia has not been matched by NHS funds or status, the public accounts committee said today in a report.

  • News

    New pay scale for unsocial hours

    2008-01-24T12:50:00Z

    NHS Employers and trade union officials have agreed on a provisional new pay scale for unsocial hours.

  • News

    Scottish funding to tackle obesity

    2008-01-24T12:46:00Z

    The Scottish government aims to invest an extra £40m in healthy living and eating programmes targeted at reducing the country's obesity problem.

  • News

    Darzi seeks patients' views on NHS

    2008-01-24T12:42:00Z

    Junior health minister Lord Darzi is today meeting NHS staff, patients and members of the public.More than 1,000 people will be asked to give their views on the NHS in general and particularly on their feelings about GP access and opening hours.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: compensation claims

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    While Leslie Ash celebrated, columnists seethed, indignant at the £5m in compensation the actor received after contracting an infection in hospital.

  • News

    Department stalls over Freedom of Information requests

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has been failing to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. Two requests regarding senior DH civil servants made by HSJ last year have been delayed.

  • News

    Super-regulator could be threat to vulnerable

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Plans for a new super-regulator have been attacked for cutting costs at the expense of vulnerable patients and social care users.

  • News

    Women denied pain relief during childbirth

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Women are often left alone during childbirth and denied proper pain relief according to a survey.

  • News

    Tooke report into MMC may be illegal

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Recommendations made by the Tooke report into Modernising Medical Careers may be illegal, the Department of Health has claimed.

  • News

    Most PCTs want to keep existing accountability systems

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Most primary care trusts do not want new structures for improving accountability to patients, NHS Confederation research suggests.