South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2910
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HSJ Knowledge
Learning to let go
More than half of employees spend some of their holiday worrying about work. Managers could help staff plan ahead and get ready to relax
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HSJ Knowledge
Tongue twisters
English language training opportunities that assist access to and performance in healthcare jobs are under threat, says Paul Gander
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HSJ Knowledge
Ken Jarrold on staff carers
'Caring is a burden and for some carers it can be overwhelming, making work difficult and sometimes impossible, and severely restricting life chances'
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HSJ Knowledge
Heroes face up to a day full of crisis
The HSJ Challenge gave participants a series of hair-raising 'problems' to resolve, report Charlotte Santry and Victoria Vaughan
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Castle on the perfect process
'Just knowing what should be happening, or what we think is happening, does not help us make informed decisions'
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HSJ Knowledge
Green shoots of recovery
In the last of our series on organisational turnaround, we peer through the breaks in the clouds around two once-troubled trusts
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News
Scotland on target for cardiac waiting times
New figures show that NHS Scotland is on track to meet the 16-week waiting time target for heart patients.
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News
Dental association calls for amnesty on financial penalties
The British Dental Association has called for an amnesty on financial penalties against dentists who failed to complete their units of dental activity target in 2006-07.
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News
Welsh Assembly battles child trafficking
The Welsh Assembly is to publish draft guidance to help combat the growing problem of child trafficking.
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News
New prescribing powers for optometrists
Optometrists will now be able to train for independent prescribing powers.
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HSJ Knowledge
Informing NHS Choices
NHS Choices has been working closely with the Information Centre for health and social care over the past three months to help primary care trusts check and validate the data on this official government website, which covers more than 40,000 organisations and comprises more than 1 million pieces of information.
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News
Choose and book codes
GPs have been reminded of the choice read codes for this year's choose and book direct enhanced service.
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News
£159m dental shortfall
Dental budgets are facing a £159m shortfall, according to the British Dental Association.
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News
UK has worst stroke outcomes, study finds
The UK has the worst outcomes for stroke services in western Europe, a study has found.
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Comment
Community engagement needed to combat elder abuse
The shocking report of the parliamentary joint committee on human rights again reveals alarming levels of elder abuse and poor standards of care in hospitals and care homes.
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Comment
'New farmacy' is thriving abroad
In regards to HSJ's 2 August article on care farming, it is well worth exploring Dr Dixon’s suggestions for the new ‘farmacy’ and looking at what other countries have done for decades.
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Comment
Introducing direct payments into care homes
Direct payment budgets could be extended to people living in care settings to allow residents to make individual choices from healthcare services available to them, says David Janner-Klausner
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News
Manchester reconfiguration decision
Two hospital reconfigurations in Greater Manchester have been given the go-ahead by the independent reconfiguration panel.
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News
Conservatives pledge to save district generals
The Conservatives have pledged to save the district general hospital, in what is being widely seen as an opening salvo in the run-up to a possible autumn snap election.
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News
Exclusive: NHS gets first medical director as Sir Liam's role is scaled back
Leading cardiac surgeon and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed as the Department of Health's medical director, HSJ has learnt.