South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2859
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HSJ Knowledge
Commissioning: wise buys
Helen Mooney asks the early adopters of FESC and their private sector partners what they hope to achieve from the framework
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News
Chief medical officer should resign, say junior doctors
Junior doctors have repeated calls for England's chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson to resign over changes to training that 'messed up thousands of doctors' lives'.
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News
Figures spark fresh concern over dental contracts
Nearly half of dentists faced having payments taken back after failing to meet targets in the first year of the new NHS dental contract, reveal statistics obtained by the British Dental Association.The association said many of the targets were unfair and called on primary care trusts to take a 'constructive, ...
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News
Call for more psychiatric beds in Northern Ireland
More psychiatrists and mental health inpatient facilities are needed to help stem the 'rising tide of suicides' in Northern Ireland, say doctors.
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News
Services to remember victims of road accidents
More than 40 religious services will take place across the UK on Sunday to remember people killed or injured in road accidents.
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Health and Social Care Bill published
New legislation designed to modernise and bring together health and social care services was launched by health minister Ben Bradshaw today.
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welsh mental act
The Welsh assembly government is consulting on mental health proposals for Wales. Comments are invited on the Mental Health Act code of practice for Wales, secondary legislation prepared under the Mental Health Act and secondary legislation prepared under the deprivation of liberty safeguards of the Mental Capacity Act.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental Health Barometer November 2007
There has been a tentative rise in confidence among mental health chief executives this month.
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HSJ Knowledge
Can a constitution seal the health service's freedom?
Lord Darzi's interim report last month brought the government a step closer to drawing up an NHS constitution. The challenge, writes Liz Kendall, is to bind the service without restraining it
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Comment
Emma Dent on hospital phobia
HSJ Towers has recently been swelled with the arrival of many other magazines published by our parent company - previously we were scattered in offices across London.
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on clinician-led management
Why don't we accept the need for inspiring leaders, wherever they come from?
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News
Call to reward patients using cheaper care
NHS patients should be given financial incentives to choose the most cost-efficient providers or treatments, a leading US academic has told officials.
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News
Doctors demand 'revolution' to increase part-time posts
The NHS will need to undergo a 'cultural revolution' if the government gives millions more parents the right to work part-time, doctors have warned.
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News
DoH considering 'tolerance levels' on waiting-time target
Trusts have welcomed plans to allow leeway on the government's flagship 18-week waiting-time target as proof that the NHS has 'grown up'.
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News
Franchise plan for primary care draws fire from GPs
A primary care trust is planning an innovative strategy to franchise out 'branded' primary care centres.
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News
Systems blamed as North Bristol trust workers overpaid
A hospital trust that overpaid staff by £160,000 has blamed teething problems with the new NHS-wide electronic staff record system.
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News
Banks threaten to hit FTs with rate hike over debt guarantees
Banks have threatened to hike up the interest rates they charge foundation trusts in the absence of a guarantee that the government will underwrite their debts.
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News
Infection control: C difficile measures improve at Stoke Mandeville
Buckinghamshire Hospitals trust has made 'significant progress' on infection control a year on from a Clostridium difficile outbreak that killed 33 people, says the Healthcare Commission. But the regulator highlighted doctors' poor hand hygiene as a serious concern in a follow-up report published today.
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News
ISTC second wave faces cuts
The government is expected to announce significant cuts to the planned second phase of its independent sector treatment centre programme.
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Supplements
HSJ50 2007: Introducing the 50 people who will shape our future
David Nicholson was top, Lord Darzi beat the secretary of state. The HSJ50 - ranking the most powerful people in healthcare - was unveiled at the Dali Universe exhibition last week with Ernst & Young and Harvey Nash, and is already causing controversy. Download the supplement for the full list