South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2937
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Ballot over pay rise could lead to strikes in September
Trade union Unite is to ballot its NHS members on industrial action over the government's staged pay rise for health workers, instead of the flat 2.5 per cent increase recommended by the pay review body. The ballot is planned for mid-August, raising the possibility of strikes from mid-September. The union ...
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NHS could recoup cost of ineffective drugs
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is recommending an innovative deal for an anti-cancer drug. It says patients with multiple myeloma who show a full or partial response to the drug Velcade should be kept on it and be funded by the NHS.
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Healthcare Commission announces hygiene spot checks
The Healthcare Commission has today launched a year-long programme of unannounced spot checks to 120 NHS trusts to check compliance with the government's Hygiene Code.
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Legal briefing: defending equal pay claims
The introduction of Agenda for Change.has sparked numerous claims of unequal pay in the health service. Tina Elliott discusses the legal foundation of such claims and how trusts are defending them.
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HSJ Knowledge
Leadership Fellows award scheme opens for applications
The HF is looking for a new batch of 16 talented people for its Leadership Fellows scheme.
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HSJ Knowledge
Sunny outlook: weather and health
A joint project with the Met Office is delivering health benefits for patients in Torquay, says Alison Stephens
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David Lock on continuing care liability
'The dividing line between healthcare and social care has been the subject of numerous legal cases, endless guidance, appeals to and reports by the parliamentary ombudsman and more than a few scratched managers' heads over the years'
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary
When HSJ senior features writer Emma Dent was asked to join an Oxfam and Unison delegation to poverty-stricken Malawi, she got a lot more than she bargained. Read her day-by-day account of the trip here.
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 1
International overnight flights should have been banned under the Geneva Convention. The 15-hour journey from Heathrow to Kamuzu airport, with a dash across Johannesburg airport to catch a connecting flight, was my first flight either outside Europe or lasting more than four hours. Although the tiny time difference means that ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 2
An early start today. Contrary to my preconceptions about laid back African living, Malawi seems to be an early to bed early to rise kind of place; perhaps not surprisingly when it goes dark (and by dark I mean pitch black as there are no street lights; even city dwellers ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 3
At breakfast in the hotel we are joined by Alex, a freelance journalist who used to work as a media officer for Oxfam after being a journalist and returned to the third estate a few years ago. (He was once a war correspondent after starting out as an arts writer ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 4
I am woken at dawn by the muezzin from the Lilongwe mosque and prevented from getting back to sleep by the cleaners, whose stockroom is on the same floor, not long after starting work with a great deal of bucket clattering..
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 5
This morning we head in different directions; we say goodbye to Claire as she heads home and Alex and Abbey go back to Bwaila to sweet talk its management into letting them take photos there, Karen and I to meet the Water Employees Trade Union.
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 6
Before the flight Karen and I have time to go for a walk into Lilongwe, round the central market (just as busy, noisy and chaotic as London's Petticoat Lane market and selling the same hotch potch of goods) and do some shopping. I buy wooden bowls, pottery made in Dedza, ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Thornton on spreading innovation
'The journey from idea to implementation is not an easy one. We need to make sure the ideas we use are the ones fired by the strongest flame and that there are many mirrors within reach.'
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HSJ Knowledge
New research could predict how NHS policies will perform
A new approach to estimating and comparing how selected interventions affect NHS productivity could help predict how policies will perform before they are rolled out, according to the Health Foundation.
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HSJ Knowledge
Saying goodnight to chronic insomnia
A project that aims to help.people with insomnia by promoting a range of treatment options is being supported by the Health Foundation through its Engaging with Quality in Primary Care award scheme.
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Modernising temporary staffing
A drive to revolutionise temporary staffing at.Homerton Hospital trust.has resulted in.tangible benefits for patients and staff, as.Jennie Negus and Karen Daniels explain
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David Lee on improving crisis services
'One of the most visible differences in mental health services today compared with the 1990s is the development of crisis resolution teams'
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Make a splash with your merger: planning for success
To succeed in the mergers and acquisitions game, trusts must plan carefully, say Martin Jacobs and Steve Saunders