South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2829
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Health Foundation leadership awards
The importance of leadership in making hospitals safer and increasing their quality of care has never been more prominent.
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Teaming up for patient safety
Torbay Hospital, part of South Devon Healthcare trust, is on course to cut its MRSA rates in half for 2007.Torbay is part of the Health Foundation's safer patients initiative and is twinned with Musgrove Park Hospital, based in Taunton and Somerset trust.
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Career Path: making health second nature
Working at the Met Office and Natural England has helped one GP hone his management skills. Here, he charts his career path, explains what he has learned along the way and gives advice to those interested in similar roles
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Business improvement qualification helps lean champions aim higher
Airedale trust's lean champions have earned national vocational qualifications in business improvement techniques, helping them in their drive to eliminate wasteful practices and enhance patient care.
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Try the human touch
Paula Hyde and Ruth Boaden look at how HR managers have an increasingly important role in boosting performance
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Brown's good news for public health
Gordon Brown's New Year commitment to cardiovascular screening is a firm step in the right direction - upstream towards prevention - and although we've heard this kind of thing from government before, this time I get the feeling they really mean it.
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Narrowing the Gap - call for evidence
Christine Davies invites HSJ readers to make a submission to the Narrowing the Gap project's evidence panel.
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PROMs get their big night at last
For 60 years, NHS policy makers, in common with counterparts in all healthcare systems, public and private, have believed that regular 'redisorganisation' of structures, combined with increases in funding to increase activity, improved patients' health, writes Alan Maynard
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Perfect match
The training of more junior staff has been neglected in the past. But an initiative that provides match-funding for investment in their skills is a big boost for those in bands 1-4, reports Stuart Shepherd
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Veterans' mental health charity to launch
A charity for ex-servicemen and women affected by post-traumatic stress disorder is set to launch later this week.
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WHO to discuss effects of climate change on health
Issues including the effects of climate change on health are due to be discussed this week by the executive board of the World Health Organisation.The board is also due to discuss flu pandemic preparation and polio eradication.
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DH deputy medical director joins independent provider
Department of Health commercial directorate deputy medical director Dr Sheila Peskett is joining independent healthcare provider Ramsay Health Care UK.
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Ambulance service network launched
The Ambulance Service Association has merged with the NHS Confederation to form the Ambulance Service Network.
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NHS in crisis, says Lib Dem leader
The NHS is one of the most unequal health services in the world, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said.
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Andrew Alonzi on legal requirements of the Mental Health Act
When the Mental Health Act 2007 is fully introduced, the existing Mental Health Act 1983 treatability test will be replaced by a new appropriate medical treatment test.
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Mental health professions - whose job is it anyway?
New professional roles that have come with the Mental Health Act 2007 have been broadly welcomed, despite continuing debate about other opportunities that have been missed. Stuart Shepherd explains
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Workplace health trainers
'Ambassadors' in the workplace are being equipped to promote healthier lives. Lynne Greenwood reports
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Nursing: reality check for diversity
The Diversity Champions programme aims to turn good intentions into good practice, as Wendy Irwin explains
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Jenny Rogers on skilful networking
A true leadership role involves sensing weak signals from a messy and complex environment, building relationships through informal coalitions across departments and organisations and learning to sell ideas to peers
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Managers who went from Richmond House to the NHS
Life at the top of the health service is enough to make even the toughest go-getter think of quitting, which is what our interviewees did - only to jump back in at a more grass-roots level. HSJ finds out about now and then