South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2876
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Health check: PCTs struggle to improve
Primary care trusts are struggling to improve as quickly as other sectors and have seen a decline in the quality of their services.
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Health check: trusts set to hit flagship waiting time target
Waiting times for operations and treatment have improved over the last year, the health check reveals.
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Health check: Cornwall trust weak on quality and resources
Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust was one of four trusts to score weak on both quality of services and use of resources for the second year running.
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More HSJ coverage of the annual health check
Follow the links below to read more about this year’s health check
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Health check: IT problems limit patient choice
The government's patient choice target is proving too tough for many trusts, the health check reveals.
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Health check: Foundations lead the pack but PCTs still fighting in the rear
The wealth of data unveiled today by the Healthcare Commission in its annual trust health check reveals foundation trusts are thriving, primary care trusts are struggling, and the best are leaving the rest behind.
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Health check: does the NHS want for good management?
It is the struggle to shift the trusts hanging around near the centre of the annual health check which is most perplexing the Healthcare Commission.
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HSJ Knowledge
Four-hour waiting target fuels admissions
How have targets changed the way we organise emergency workloads and what has the impact been of the four-hour waiting target in accident and emergency? Paul Robinson explains
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Junior doctors face a difficult job market
Already bruised by MTAS, junior doctors are now feeling the effects of market competition - but did the DoH bungle its workforce planning, asks Noel Plumridge, or did it know what it was doing all along?
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Long-term care reforms will seek fairer system
The government's review of long-term care could shift the balance of payment between the individual and the state.
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Welsh trust mergers get green light
The Welsh government is set to go ahead with its reconfiguration of acute services across south east and west Wales.
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Michael White on managers and motivation
If middle managers don't manage and nurses are poorly motivated, no amount of money can solve the NHS's problems, says Michael White
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Health check case study: Mid Cheshire Hospitals trust praises staff
Mid Cheshire Hospitals trust has praised the efforts of staff in turning around a double 'weak' rating to a double 'good' assessment.
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One in four hospital trusts not hitting infection control targets
A quarter of hospital trusts in England are failingto meet new standards on infection control, according the Healthcare Commission's annual health check.Forty-four trusts were not complying with one or all aspects of the hygiene code, standards seen as key after the recent deaths from hospital infections.
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Midwives reject government pay offer
The Royal College of Midwives has voted to reject the government's staged pay offer 'as a matter of principle', saying that it amounts to a below inflation pay award.
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500 more school nurses needed, says Unite
The union Unite has called for 500 more school nurses to fight the obesity crisis.
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NHS Employers issues pay circular
NHS Employers has published a pay circular designed to provide trusts with the information they need to implement the 2007 pay award for staff on Agenda for Change, following the NHS trade unions' acceptance of the revised proposal made in August.
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Ambulance staff wages posted on web
A union has taken legal advice after ambulance managers posted details of the salaries of call-centre staff on the internet.
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Martin Kedge on reaching out to sick children
Charity WellChild plays a crucial role in highlighting the needs of children with long-term illnesses, writes Kedge Martin
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Weird world health
You never know what you've got til it's gone. As one Mark Smith of Newtown, south Wales, has found out after being banned under an Asbo from entering any NHS premises in the UK. Singularly capable of wrecking any trust's attemtps to meet the four hour A&E target, Mr Smith ...