South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2862
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Care services minister to host social care web chat
Care services minister Ivan Lewis will hold a web chat tomorrow at 2pm about the Department of Health's Dignity in Care campaign, how to champion social care and how to recruit more staff to the sector.
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Doncaster
A hospital’s refusal to adopt a national pay agreement has raised questions over the limits of foundation trusts’ independence. Maintenance workers atDoncasterand Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust, where the chairman of the pay negotiating council Joe Brayford is human resources director, are striking every Monday for the next four weeks after ...
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patient records
The government is investigating whether patient information used by medical researchers is safe. Arrangements for keeping electronic data used in health research confidential varies ‘considerably’ from those used for immigration and counter-terrorism purposes, the government’s response to the health select committee’s report on electronic patient records states. The new national ...
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overseas docs
NHS Employers is ‘disappointed’ with an appeal court ruling that has banned the Department of Health from prioritising UK medical school graduates for speciality training posts. Deputy director Sian Thomas acknowledged the contribution of overseas doctors from outside the European Economic Area but said a policy of self-sufficiency would help ...
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social care eligibility
One in 10 councils are planning to tighten their eligibility criteria for access to care services next year. 15 out of 150 councils told the Commission for Social Care Inspection that they will limit the number of disabled and elderly people receiving care services, Mencap has learned. It also discovered ...
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Sexual safety for all patients
Emma Dent's article on 'the safety scandal' sets out the slow progress and confusion in providing single sex environments. All the main issues are explored, except the diversity of patient groups involved beyond adult mental health, write Philip Sugarman and Fiona Mason
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Weird world health
When doctors and nurses make the decision to set out and their long and arduous training, we imagine many must have as their idols those pioneers of healthcare who transformed medicine. But it seems the fictional Dr Watson, sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, TV's Dr Kildaire, Frasier's Dr Frasier Crane, Casualty’s ...
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All Our Yesterdays
November 21, 1941, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewMore on the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers. 'The first essential in the treatment of haematemesis is to keep the patient absolutely quiet. He is put to bed where he lies supline and still, the necessary nursing procedures being ...
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Neil Goodwin on building a strong NHS board
Developing an effective NHS board requires good leadership from the chairman, who must set the tone, style and the conduct of business
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HSJ Knowledge
Maternity services and breastfeeding: a lot of bottle
Unicef estimates four in 10 English maternity hospitals make no effort to encourage more mums to breastfeed. Daloni Carlisle asks what can be done to get them on board
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Ken Jarrold on Darzi's call to shape a world class NHS
No-one who has had the privilege of working with health minister Lord Darzi will be surprised his report Our NHS, Our Future is clear and highly relevant to the challenges ahead
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Richard Gleave on Michael Moore's Sicko
As the US enters the next presidential campaign, Michael Moore's film Sicko has reignited the debate about healthcare
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Race equality in healthcare - getting up to speed
The NHS is still behind the times on realising the principles of ethnic equality law for all staff and service users. Caroline White reports
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Long-term conditions: help patients to help themselves
Co-creating Health is a three-year project to encourage patients manage their own treatment. Natalie Grazin explains
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Blocking migrant doctors from training posts ruled unlawful
The Court of Appeal has ruled that government guidance making it harder for doctors on the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme to take up training posts in the NHS was unlawful.
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Call to ban cigarette vending
Cancer Research UK has joined the British Heart Foundation in calling for a ban on the sale of cigarettes from unsupervised vending machines.
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Social care council chair remains
Sir Rodney Brooke is to remain as chair of the General Social Care Council until 31 October 2008.
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Gay Africans with HIV face double stigma
Gay and bisexual African men living with HIV in London face a dual stigma, with many not disclosing either status to their family and friends, according to a study by the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV at Homerton University Hospital foundation trust.
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Progress made on world access to medicines
Work to ensure poor populations have better access to medicines has made progress, according to the World Health Organisation.
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Tragedies involving mentally ill could be avoided, says charity
Mental health charity Rethink has said tragic cases where people with mental illnesses harm others could be avoided if sufferers and their families had a legal right to care and treatment when they ask for it.