South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2851

  • News

    Professor urges management skills for medics

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Doctors need to be better equipped with managerial skills to help improve the financial health of the organisations they work in, a Harvard business professor has said.Harvard Business School senior lecturer in business administration Professor Richard Bohmer, who runs a masters course in business administration for trainee doctors, said they ...

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    PCTs urged to put local patients before politicians

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Primary care providers must not 'blow' their chance to strengthen local decision making, says the Department of Health's director general for commissioning and system management.

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    Practice-based commissioning: poor data may scupper efforts

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    The future of practice-based commissioning is in jeopardy unless the quality of data available to commissioners improves, the government's financial watchdog has warned.

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    Close pay gap between acute and PCT chiefs, say managers

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    The chief executive of Managers in Partnership has called on the government to explain why primary care trust managers are paid less than their acute trust peers.

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    Maternity choice is a reality, Healthcare Commission survey shows

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Choice in maternity services is now a reality for most expectant mothers, a survey by the Healthcare Commission has shown.

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    Norfolk vows to learn from ambulance backlog drama

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Health service and social care managers in Norfolk and Norwich have pledged to learn the lessons from an unexpected influx of patients last week which resulted in the area's biggest trust declaring a major incident alert.

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    In-house turnaround team to cut NHS's £36m consultants' bill

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is preparing to launch its own team of troubleshooters to assist NHS organisations facing clinical or financial problems.

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    Maidstone non-executive directors warn of 'scapegoating'

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Three non-executive directors who resigned from Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust are to write to non-executives around the country outlining their experience - and warning it could happen to others.

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    Scotland's overseas staff numbers unknown

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    A review of pre-employment checks which was carried out in the wake of alleged terrorist attacks has revealed that the NHS in Scotland does not know how many overseas staff it employs.

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    Climate change experts to visit trusts

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    A team of climate change experts is to tour the country to galvanise trusts to take action on sustainable development in the health service.

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    Quality of 100 new GP practices comes into question

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    The 100 new GP practices to be built in under-doctored areas will be badly funded and poorly staffed, the British Medical Association has warned.

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    Surplus-rich PCTs anxious of cuts in new allocations

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Surplus-rich primary care trusts have expressed fears that a one-year funding allocation signals greater financial turbulence ahead.

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    Plan to detain poison victims called 'draconian'

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Concerns have been raised over 'draconian' new powers to detain people for up to 28 days to prevent contamination or infection spreading through the population.

  • Comment

    Management training push for doctors

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    The momentum for management training for doctors has received a further boost this week with moves by the King's Fund to establish an MBA for doctors (for more details, click here).

  • Comment

    What is behind the NHS surplus?

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Last week’s revelation by HSJ that the NHS is heading for a 1.8bn underspend raises the spectre of renewed financial turbulence.

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    Michael White on data security

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    When I heard that young Tory thruster George Osborne warn that the fiasco over the two missing child benefit discs from HM Revenue and Customs will prove the 'final blow' to the British ID card scheme, I wondered what it might also mean for the NHS.

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    Data protection: fresh security fears as information escapes

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    While the public absorbs news of a breathtaking government failure to safeguard personal details, moves to centralise data on NHS patients continue apace. Daloni Carlisle asks what the health service can learn from the Revenue and Customs debacle

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    In this week's HSJ

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    NewsSurplus-rich primary care trusts have expressed fears that a one-year funding allocation signals greater financial turbulence ahead.The 100 new GP practices to be built in under-doctored areas will be badly funded and poorly staffed, the British Medical Association has warned.Concerns have been raised over 'draconian' new powers to detain people ...

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    Jon Restell on unravelling the pay-off era

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    The NHS is more anxious to stop problems coming to light than solving them. Good, bad, indifferent - the system does not care about judging your actual performance

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    Emma Dent on Manchester's tale of two cities

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    There sometimes comes a point in life when you find yourself agreeing with people you never thought you would. I felt this way when I read former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith's report about Manchester.