South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2860
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Give heart and soul for organ donation
With managers relentlessly focused on keeping patients alive, they could be forgiven for taking their eye off the ball once someone is dead. But, as so often, there is still one more thing to do.
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Unions fear precedent in FT pay battle
A hospital's refusal to adopt a national pay agreement has raised questions over the limits of foundation trusts' independence.
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All non-executives resign from infection-hit Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
All the non-executives of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal have left.
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Plea to trust bosses to boost organ donation
The head of the NHS transplant agency has called on trust managers to play a greater role in boosting organ donation and improving transplant services.
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Michael White on Gordon Brown's health policy
Some well-meaning MPs think that Gordon Brown's government is deliberately taking the spotlight off the NHS to give it breathing space to recover from years of political battering.
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Media Watch: waiting times
If the Department of Health hoped for some good press on the latest waiting times, then it should have known better.
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3,000 staff to get performance bonus
Staff from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital foundation trust have each been awarded a £100 bonus to celebrate the organisation's excellent performance.
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MP demands severance deal figure
A Conservative MP is demanding the Department of Health discloses the severance settlement paid last month to Mark Rees, the former chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals trust.
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DoH may wipe financial slate clean for 17 struggling trusts
The Department of Health is considering wiping out historical debts of at least some of the 17 trusts it has classified as 'financially challenged'.
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PCTs to be primed for greater NICE input
Primary care trusts will have a bigger say over the way new drugs are used under plans being drawn up this winter.
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PCTs will not take on escort and bedwatch roles from Prison Service until April
Primary care trusts will commission prison healthcare security services a year later than planned because of behind-the-scenes wrangling over costs.
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In this week's HSJ
NewsBanks 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.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 ...
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PFI debt fears as district general hospitals feel the squeeze
District generals' income is set to take a hit as specialist hospitals and primary care trusts move in on their territory. How will they pay PFI debts of £28.5bn, asks Sally Gainsbury
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Local blueprint for primary care revolution kickstarts GP reform
Heart of Birmingham primary care trust has placed itself in the vanguard of the drive to modernise primary care.
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A&E shake-up plans face clinical opposition
Plans to radically change hospital services in West Sussex - including downgrading two out of three accident and emergency departments - are facing competition from new options favoured by clinicians.
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News rules for pharamaceutical companies
UK-based pharmaceutical companies will have to make explicit their relationship with patient organisations following the publication of new European rules.Pharmaceutical companies operating in the UK must abide by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's code of conduct, but that will now need to be changed to reflect to new ...
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Progress reported at infection-hit Stoke Mandeville
Stoke Mandeville Hospital has made 'substantial progress' to prevent and manage healthcare-associated infections, the Healthcare Commission has said.
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'Incompetence' over junior doctors
The Conservatives have accused the government of incompetence following news that there will be three applications for every training place for junior doctors this year.
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ISTC programme slashed
Only three out of 16 independent sector treatment and diagnostic schemes have been given the final go ahead following a review of phase 2 of the programme by the Department of Health.
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Obesity drugs do not work, study shows
Anti-obesity drugs lead to only a 'modest' weight loss and many patients who take them remain significantly obese or overweight, research published by the British Medical Journal has found.