South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2832
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Moyes still waiting for new Monitor contract
Bill Moyes, executive chair of the foundation trust regulator Monitor, has yet to agree a new contract with the Department of Health to guarantee his position, HSJ has learned.
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Lib Dem leader outlines plans for the health service
The new leader of the Liberal Democrats has outlined his party's proposals for all patients to be given a set of 'entitlements' to treatment, based on their condition.
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Heart death rates show a nation of inequalities
Research by HSJ has revealed the huge inequalities between healthcare need and NHS spending throughout England.An HSJ analysis of the latest data on coronary heart disease premature death rates and primary care trust heart disease spending shows that some of the PCTs with the greatest health need spend the least.
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Michael White on Brown's plans for health
Gordon Brown's Big NHS Speech, to which HSJ gave front-page treatment last week, was full of virtuous declaration about what needs to be done to manage rising - and costly - demand in healthcare systems around the world.
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GPs failing to pick up patients at most risk of heart disease
GPs in some of the poorest areas of the country are failing to identify patients with coronary heart disease and treat them effectively, HSJ’s analysis suggests.
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Ministers should heed warnings over accountability
Wrangling over the precise remit of the forthcoming Care Quality Commission continues apace.
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Clegg throws down mental health gauntlet
Mental health is not an issue that politicians generally choose to make a splash on. But newly elected Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg had more to say about mental health in his inaugural speech on public policy than he did about the rest of the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improvement culture: four tools for driving change
Making things better is less about the nitty gritty than values, leadership, will and skill
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Simon Stevens on Brown's first health speech
Until last week, Gordon Brown had been surprisingly - even painfully - quiet on where he thought the NHS should be headed. But last Monday he finally showed some leg, in the form of his first major health pronunciamento since moving into Number 10.
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Henderson Hospital may be saved
Fresh hope has been sparked that ministers could intervene to save a national psychiatry service, a month after commissioners decided to close it.
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Royal Marsden's cool heads and smart systems
In the wake of the west London fire, Ingrid Torjesen looks at how the hospital coped and whether emergency planning has moved on since 7/7
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Longer GP hours are not a priority for patients, Darzi is told
Regional leaders of the review of the NHS are set to meet health minister Lord Darzi today to discuss emerging themes from their work.
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Former choice head joins ambulance trust
Martyn Pritchard, former head of the Department of Health's choice policy, has been appointed the new chief executive of Yorkshire Ambulance Service trust.
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Greater protection for Scottish NHS workers
The Scottish government has agreed to change the law to ensure greater protection for NHS workers at risk of being abused and attacked.
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Use dentistry cash to improve access, charity urges
Primary care trusts must spend newly allocated cash for dentistry on improving access for patients, the Citizens Advice Bureau has said.The call follows research for the charity that suggests millions of adults in England and Wales are still having problems getting to see an NHS dentist.
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Frank Burns on politicians, short cuts and dead ends
Those of us interested in the genesis of high-profile national policy will have enjoyed the revelation, on Radio 4's Wiring the NHS programme, that in 2002 Sir John Pattison, then responsible Director for NHS IT, was given all of 10 minutes to make a pitch to the then prime minister ...
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Weird world health
All hail the Darwin Awards, the annual celebration of those 'who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it.' Winners of the 2007 awards include a Texan man who died after giving himself an enema made up of two 1.5 litre bottles of sherry and a young couple fromSouth ...
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Junior doctor recruitment still shaky, claims BMA
Problems with the 2008 junior doctor recruitment process in England have already started to emerge, the British Medical Association has said.
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Organ Donation Taskforce publishes recommendations
A government taskforce today published its vision for increasing the number of organs available for transplant by half over the next five years.
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HSJ Knowledge
European law and the NHS - the year ahead
Steve Barnett looks at EU law and its potential impact on the NHS workforce in 2008