South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2882
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All Our Yesterdays
October 16, 1936, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewA sad tale in this week’s Queries and Replies column that these days would probably make it onto the Jeremy Kyle Show. A reader writes to ask about maintenance payments for a child. A clause in the separation agreement of ...
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Patient Safety
Winner Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS TrustFacing the Challenge - Healthcare Acquired InfectionsThe dramatic improvements seen at a trust that once had some of the worst MRSA bacteraemia reduction figures in the country is ultimately the result of one overarching theme - making infection prevention rather than infection control the ...
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Improving patient access
WinnerBoltonPCTMusculoskeletal Clinical assessment and Treatment Service (MSK CATS)The professionalism and ambitious breadth of work in a holistic and systemic approach were just some of the qualities in theBoltonentry that stood out for the judges. The panel also appreciated the strong focus on quality, an evidence-based methodology and robust outcome measures ...
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Patient Centred Care
WinnerLeedsPCT'What Works?' pharmacy needle exchangeA pharmacy based needle exchange service providing sterile injecting equipment or ‘works’ to drug users in Leeds had no guidelines, governance or contracts - and was becoming increasingly fragmented.Needle exchange was established in the 1970’s and continues to play an important role in reducing the spread ...
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Service design: how does it feel to be our patient?
An unusual change project drafted in anthropologists to explore patients' experiences. Stuart Shepherd takes a look
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Paul Jennings on measuring clinicians
How does a primary care trust measure the performance of its GPs? Some things are relatively easily counted: operations, visits to the clinician. It is harder to count things that really matter, such as standards of care, the competence of the clinician, training, and the outcome for the patient. Paul ...
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Health developments: doctors on the football pitch
Sports stadiums are proving mutually attractive as shared sites for NHS health centres, and interest in such ventures is on the increase. Lynne Greenwood is your commentator
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Ken Jarrold on giving constructive feedback
If press reports are to be believed it will not be long before information about the performance of individual surgeons of all specialties is in the public domain. I am sure the royal colleges are preparing members for this major change of culture and practice and the rest of us ...
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Occupational health: making workplaces healthy
The latest edition of the NHS's guidance on healthy workplace practices is a greatly expanded resource, reports Stuart Shepherd
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Leadership: what not to do
Management development gurus have written a motivational book of 'what not to do' for would-be great leaders, writes Stuart Shepherd
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David Woodhead on healthcare for heartbreak
The health impact of personal distress on service users as well as staff can be heavy and is a real public health challenge, says David Woodhead
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Complaints
Patients are being let down by the way NHS trusts inEnglandhandle complaints, according to the Healthcare Commission.The commission found wide variation in the way complaints were dealt with - and a failure to act on any problems they threw up.The audit focused on 32 trusts where concerns had been raised ...
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Berkshire West Atos deal
Berkshire West is the latest primary care trust to agree a contract with a private provider for GP services.Atos Healthcare, a division of Atos Origin, is to supply all services at a new health centre in Shinfield.And in line with Prime Minster Gordon Brown's pledge to make access a priority, ...
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Improving Care with E-Technology
Winner NHS Northwest,LancashireSouth andCumbriaCardiac Network and Broomwell HealthwatchCardiac Telemedicine in Primary CareAn NHS North West 6-month pilot of telemedical ECGs within Cumbria & Lancashire has the potential to slash NHS bills by at least£46M per year.Translating the success across the 15 GP practices and two NHS walk-in centres participating in ...
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BMA survey
The British Medical Association has launched a survey of staff grade and associate specialist doctors on new contract proposals.In August negotiators representing the doctors formally withdrew from further talks with the government over their stalled contract (HSJ, news, 30 August).The preliminary results from survey will be discussed at a special ...
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Implementing NICE guidance
Winner Oxleas Foundation trust The project implements NICE guidance on Schizophrenia across a London based mental health trust. An audit measured trust practice against the guidelines and against a technology appraisal for the use of atypical antipsychotic prescribed to service users.The scheme concentrated on focusing on what clinicians need at ...
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Recruitment and Retention
Judges described the winner as an impressive partnership between health and local government that addressed both long and short-term recruitment issues. They praised the focus not just on healthcare but on community benefits, providing real opportunities for staff development and progression
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Trusts told to improve complaints handling
The quality of complaints handling varies considerably across the NHS, a Healthcare Commission report has found.It says trusts should make it easier to make complaints, ensure that the care of those complaining is not adversely affected as a result and strengthen procedures for investigating problems after little evidence emerged that ...
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Tooke reports on doctors' training
Modernising Medical Careers does not provide doctors with enough broad experience by encouraging them to specialise early in their careers, according to an independent report on the system.The Tooke report says it does not allow for enough flexibility to meet the system's needs and calls for it to undergo fundamental ...
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Road-testing tariff published
The Department of Health has published the 2008-09 payment by results tariff for road-testing. Feedback on the tariffs is invited by 9 November.