South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2944
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NICE pilot project on safety solutions
NICE and the National Patient Safety Agency are collaborating on a pilot to investigate cost-effective safety solutions for the NHS.The pilot project is running between April and November 2007 and will assess evidence on clinical and cost effectiveness.Read the project summary here
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DoH catalogues local spending
Details of where the £8bn being spent in the NHS this year will go have been outlined in a new report published today.Local Spending for Local Needs will catalogue schemes rolling out across the country and coincides with local plans published by strategic health authorities.Read the report here
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HSJ Knowledge
Gail Richards on work-life balance
The recent national staff survey offers a chance to see what NHS staff really think of where they work. One set of questions is used to 'assess the extent to which they believe that their trust and immediate manager are committed to helping them find a good balance between their ...
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Healthy staff will enhance outcomes
The NHS should take the lead in preventing long-term conditions in the workplace, write Simon Leary and Caitlin Francis
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Comment
David Woodhead on the qualities of commissioners
'Driving change in numerous organisations demands particular skills. We no longer spoke of what people needed to know, or what their qualifications might be, but of the qualities they had and how they approached their work'
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DoH launches occupational health projects
The Department of Health has announced that businesses in Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire, London and Hampshire are to benefit from demonstration projects designed to improve occupational health. The projects will share £10m to help boost the mental, physical and social well-being of local staff.Health minister Rosie Winterton said: 'The funding of ...
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Ad campaign launched to prepare for smoking ban
A smoky atmosphere is the single biggest reason for avoiding a pub or bar, according to a survey published by the Department of Health.The government has also launched a national advertising campaign to remind the public what the legislation will mean when the smoking ban comes into force on 1 ...
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Breastfeeding on the rise
More mothers than ever before are choosing to breastfeed their newborn babies, according to a report published today by the Information Centre for health and social care.The 2005 infant feeding survey shows 76 per cent of mothers in the UK now start out breastfeeding - up 7 per cent since ...
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Cancer czar calls for more reform
The NHS must continue to change if it is to deliver better cancer care to patients according to the national cancer director Professor Mike Richards.Getting it right for people with cancer: the clinical case for change, published by Professor Richards today, says that to meet future demand the NHS must ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: releasing value from land
Buildings need to be used efficiently and filled to capacity to raise money.needed for investment back into the health sector, argues Marisa Broadhurst.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving data on private sector healthcare
As the proportion of NHS patients treated by the independent sector continues to rise, the Information Centre for health and social care.is focusing on new ways of improving the quality of.information submitted by private sector health providers, particularly about NHS-funded care.
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Encouraging clinicians to use data
The Information Centre for health and social care.has launched a new initiative to work more closely with clinicians to improve the quality of data used to measure patient outcomes.
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Information Centre unveils revamped website
The Information Centre for health and social care's revamped website includes improved access to information from the hospital episode statistics.
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Comment
The NHS is far from 'saved'
I am astonished to see your comment piece claiming current policies have 'saved the NHS'. It certainly doesn't seem like it to me or any of my colleagues, and I wonder which planet the author has been on.
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Bed-blocking does not tell the full story
I read the article on bed-blocking with interest as my mother has been a patient in a foundation trust in the North West for nearly six months following a severe stoke.
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PBC needs to look at the big picture
In response to Simon Stevens' article on practice-based commissioning (opinion, page 17, 3 May), PBC has to be for all practices. If nothing else, PBC is about raising the eyes of GPs and practice management to understand the wider commissioning impact of their actions.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stepping up to patient care
The Stepping Up programme is designed to understand how improving access to treatments can improve people's well-being and prevent them from developing more serious mental health problems, writes Mark Needham.
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Working with Oakleigh Consulting
The Information Centre for health and social care's commercial management team is working with Oakleigh Consulting.to make information on the NHS more accessible.
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Louis Appleby on reaching out to BME communities
'The term Positive Steps is an important one. The words and the actions coming from services must be positive. There is only so long that we can talk about the problem before talking about it gets in the way of tackling it.'