South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2853
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HSJ Knowledge
Pressure ulcer audit tools
Pressure ulcer audit tools have been developed by the Greater Manchester essence of care network to improve diagnosis and management of pressure ulcers.
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HSJ Knowledge
Staff engagement - advice for managers
What can health service managers do to ensure their staff are motivated and engaged? Greg Brown offers some pointers
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Coping with change in the health service - a guide for managers
The reality of life is not only that change is inevitable, but that the pace of change is increasing and will most likely continue to do so. Chris Howe explains what managers can do to keep their heads above water
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NHS cancer services - are we meeting the mark?
The conference NHS Cancer Services - Are We Meeting the Mark? is being organised by the Scottish cancer networks on 29 February and1 March 2008atHeriot-WattUniversityinEdinburgh.
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Comment
World class commissioning will secure NHS's future
Mark Britnell recently set out the government's ambitious vision for commissioning in HSJ. Many of our patients have seen the enormity of the improvements in the service over the last few years. However, as clinicians and managers, we have to accept that we have not been able to create a ...
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NHS must treat patients with rare conditions fairly
We read Sophia Christie's article on collective commissioning with interest. Ms Christie clearly takes the view that no patient with a rare disease is worth treating, as drugs developed for such conditions have limited evidence and are very expensive due to high development costs. So much for the NHS being ...
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Care Quality Commission plans are unrealistic
The restructuring and amalgamation of regulators is not currently having a good press, writes BMN Clarke
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Protecting patients' personal data is crucial
The furore surrounding the Treasury's mismanagement of 25 million people's personal details has real and worrying lessons for those of us dealing with data in the health service, says Robert Navarro
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News
Maternity services satisfactory, says Healthcare Commission
Women are, overall, positive about maternity services, according to a Healthcare Commission survey of 26,000 mothers.However, the results highlighted wide variations between trusts in responses to questions about postnatal care, communication, food and cleanliness.
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Alzheimer's patients need more social contact, report says
People with dementia who live in care homes typically spend two minutes in every six hours socially interacting with other people, according to research from the Alzheimer's Society.
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Malnutrition survey highlights risks for patients
A quarter of all adults admitted to hospitals and care homes in theUKare at risk of malnutrition, a survey has found.
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Diagnostic waiting times fall in Scotland
There has been a significant drop in patients waiting more than nine weeks for key diagnostic tests, according to official figures for Scotland published today.
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News
Open window warning from HSE
The Health and Safety Executive has warned hospitals and care providers they have a duty to ensure the safety of their patients, especially from the dangers of open windows.
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News
List of PCTs to go with under-doctored areas story
The full list of PCTs are: Manchester, Barking and Dagenham, Knowsley, Sandwell,Wolverhampton City, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Liverpool, Sunderland Teaching, Birmingham East and North, Halton and St Helens, Heart of Birmingham Teaching, Barnsley, Leicester City, Oldham, Blackburn with Darwen, Stoke on Trent, Hounslow, Hull, Nottingham City, Blackpool, Ashton, Leigh and ...
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Comment
Weird world health
Health minister Lord Ara Darzi has been learning the potential complications of being in the House of Lords. Saving the life of Lord Brennan, who collapsed during debate of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, with the aid of a defibrillator, meant his parliamentary business was put back a day. ...
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All Our Yesterdays
4 December, 1936, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewPublic assistance and hospital managers looking to liven up life in their institutions this week may have been cheered by an advertisement this week. Clifford Kemp, a 'film renter' based in The Headrow, Leeds, was advertising his 1000 plus 'talking ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Answers to the HSJ 2007 Christmas quiz
Christmas quizAnswersNoel Plumridge1 (a). This is not to be confused with payments to consultants in the DH commercial directorate, which at around£100,000 per day cost rather more than 1 per cent of turnover. 2: (c). The takeover involved arrangements for handling Good Hope’s accumulated debt.3. (b). The plug was pulled ...
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Race equality monitoring and diabetes
The Healthcare Commission has found few trusts obey data law on ethnicity. Caroline White looks at the implications for diabetes
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HSJ Knowledge
David Amos on HR reform in the health service
HR reform is sweeping public and private employers - 53 per cent of organisations have restructured their HR function in the past year, and 81 per cent have done so in the last five years
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Keeping non-executive directors in the NHS game
Non-executive directors in the NHS are increasingly being recruited from business backgrounds. How do they cope with such a different environment, asks Alison Moore