South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2885
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Tories struggle to make their own room in the centre ground
This week in Blackpool the Conservative Party conference promised to scrap top-down targets - and end the postcode lottery.
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Michael White on the shadow health secretary
Now that Gordon Brown has started to open up in public and chancellor Alistair Darling has put a couple of jokes into his conference speech, there is no stopping the confessional flood in politics. Even Andrew Lansley has been affected.
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Tories stake a claim to be the patient-centred party
The Conservatives have fired their salvo in the battle to prove they are the party that can deliver a patient-centred NHS.
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Fundamental change key to NHS vision, says Darzi
Lord Darzi will today tell the NHS that it has to make fundamental changes to the way it operates.
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New formula to boost funds for poor areas
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has promised that no NHS board will see a cut in its budget if a proposed new funding formula is adopted.
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HSJ Knowledge
Data Briefing: efficiency efforts begin to pay off
A year after their first publication, the NHS Better Care, Better Value indicators are starting to reflect efforts to improve the efficiency of NHS care.
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Emma Dent gets diagnosed
A kind reader recently commented that this column reads as though I have spent hours on it. At least, I think they were being kind.
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Call to meet equality obligations to men
The Men's Health Forum has challenged the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights to take immediate action to ensure the NHS meets its obligations to men.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on connecting with the boss
What is the best way to manage a less than perfect leader? Here, Malcolm Lowe-Lauri offers some suggestions
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Confederation call to tackle health inequalities
Moves to tackle health inequalities must start with the most excluded, the NHS Confederation has urged.
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Academic health science centre launched
Imperial College Healthcare trust, the UK's first academic health science centre, was launched on Monday.
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Money for nothing in the ISTC labour crisis
They were meant to cut waiting times for routine operations, but independent sector treatment centres continue to go under-used while primary care trusts foot the bill. Alison Moore reports
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BMA says more funds are key to boosting GP access
The chairman of the British Medical Association has told a government minister that more money and staff will be needed to improve GP access.
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HSJ Knowledge
A clinical vision for service redesign
When clinicians were asked to design their ideal service, common design rules quickly emerged. As Nigel Edwards and William Dunlop explain, these closely matched the views of patients
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Maternity death rates worsening for poorer mums
Maternity mortality rates have increased, the maternity services czar has revealed.
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Darzi to outline findings of NHS review
Junior health minister Lord Darzi will today outline the full findings of his review of the NHS.This will include the establishment of a Health Innovation Council to 'develop and deploy hi-tech healthcare such as medical devices and diagnostics'.Visit hsj.co.uk today for more updates on the review as they emerge
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Confed kicks off membership meetings
The NHS Confederation's annual round of membership meetings will start this evening.
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Clarification on professional executive committee pensions
The Department of Health has written to primary care trusts to clarify pension arrangements for members of PCT professional executive committees.
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Dentists doing less complex work, figures show
Dentists are carrying out less complex work since the introduction of the new contract in April last year.
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Tool promises to improve access to GPs
A new tool aimed at giving patients better access to their GP and cutting the number of face-to-face GP consultations by up to 60 per cent is to be launched by the Royal College of GPs today.