South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2892
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HSJ Knowledge
Michael White on the conference season
'The conference experience is to go home feeling that whatever interest brought you, it is worth doing for the rest of the year'
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HSJ Knowledge
Dave Lee on Darzi's tour
'Mental health has occasionally painted itself as the eternal Cinderella, with the result that some commissioners feel obliged to treat it accordingly'
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HSJ Knowledge
With choice comes responsibility
Patient choice is here to stay. But more needs to be learned about who wants it and why, say Martin Roland and Marianna Fotaki
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HSJ Knowledge
Rare diseases: adopt orphans
A lack of knowledge and understanding is resulting in inequalities surrounding the prescription of drugs for rare diseases, reports Michael Sobanja
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News
HART teams
Emergency chiefs fear commissioners will balk at paying for an ambitious plan to allow specialist paramedics into the heart of major incidents including terrorist attacks. Commissioners have questioned how running costs for Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART) will be funded, HSJ has learned. The scheme will see specialist teams set ...
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News
In this week's HSJ
NewsEngland's clinical leaders have backed moves to reconfigure specialist acute services - but urged caution over changes to the district general hospital.More than half the contracts for the NHS to provide patient transport services are at risk of being given to private or voluntary-sector providers, ambulance trusts have warned.The prime ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Staying informed on healthcare
Christine Halpin talks about establishing a health information service for disadvantaged groups.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mastering strategic asset management
NHS organisations must keep tabs on their estate by compiling comprehensive information on their properties, writes Mark Paget Skelin
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News
Darzi citizens' jury gives PM and Johnson wish list
The prime minister this week joined the health secretary and health minister Lord Darzi at one of a series of ‘citizens’ juries’ on health.Gordon Brown, Alan Johnson and Lord Darzi talked to around 120 patients and selected members of the public about their priorities for the health service at an ...
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Renewed efforts to set up national tariff
Mental health trusts are signing up to new payment by results pilots, although fears remain that a national system will not be implemented.
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irp
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has put into action new powers that give it a greater say over which service changes go to it for a full review.Members of the group this month gave health secretary Alan Johnson members’ opinion on whether it should embark on a review of service changes ...
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NHS pension deal agreed
Health unions, the Department of Health, employer representatives and NHS Employers have reached an agreement on the proposed changes to the NHS pension scheme.
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Specialty training consultation
A consultation closes today on recruitment to specialty training under the Modernising Medical Careers programme.
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DoH appoints deputy chief nursing officer
Viv Bennet has been appointed as deputy chief nursing officer at the Department of Health.
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£1.7bn general practice overspend
The government spent £1.7bn more on general practices in England than it said it would since 2003, new NHS figures have revealed.Between 2003-04 and 2005-06, the government spent £20.5bn - 9.2 per cent more than it promised under the gross investment guarantee when new GP contracts were introduced.
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WHO warns on safety of children's medicines
Medicines for children need to be more tightly monitored for safety, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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Comment
Media Watch
The papers are again keen to expose the 'scandal' of hospital food - this time the focus is on hospital kitchens. The Observer told readers of a 'searing indictment' of their cleanliness after government inspection reports revealed 'that breaches of food hygiene laws include infestations of mice and cockroaches, kitchen ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Recalling the offer of choice
The government revealed the results of its£11million GP access survey last month and promised ‘immediate action’ to rectify the areas of underperformance, particularly the poorer access reported by patients in poorer areas; ‘improvement teams’ are being dispatched.Another part of the access survey concerned patient choice. The survey asked patients whether ...
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Union 'gobsmacked' by ambulance funds blow
North West Ambulance Service trust has admitted it can only afford to buy 35 of the 128 ambulances it needs to replace, raising questions over the reconfigured service's buying power.Board papers from the service, which was formed in July 2006 following the merger of four trusts, say it needs to ...
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PFI link-ups could save millions
Hospital trusts considering using the private finance initiative could save millions of pounds by teaming up with non-NHS partners, according to the chief executive of a trust set to go into partnership with a football club.West Hertfordshire Hospitals trust stands to save£80m-£100m because it is building a new hospital in ...