South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2956
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£468m for biomedical research pot
Eleven new Biomedical Research Centres of excellence will share more than £468m of funding over the next five years.The centres set across England will carry out research on major killers such as cancer and heart disease, as well as other crucial areas such as asthma, HIV, mental illness and blindness.Read ...
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Hospices in line for refurbishment programme
Hospices are to receive £40m from the Department of Health to carry out improvement works. The money will go to 191 projects in 146 adult hospices in England.It will be spent on refurbishing and upgrading hospice areas including wards, dining facilities, gardens and IT. A further £10m will be made ...
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Scottish Labour party vows to halve waiting times
The Scottish Labour party has pledged to halve waiting times to 18 weeks from referral to treatment by 2011. The promise comes in the party's new manifesto, launched today.There is also a specific commitment to cut waits to see physiotherapists, clinical psychologists and chiropodists to nine weeks by the same ...
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Phil Wade on the Information Centre's future
The business development director of the Information Centre outlines its eight priorities for next year, including identifying how much of the NHS drugs budget is wasted and providing a more detailed picture of independent sector care.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improved Information Centre website
What's in store on the revamped Information Centre website
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National head and neck cancer audit
The second annual head and neck cancer audit report will include information on the treatment of over 1,400 people. For the first time it includes data from Wales as well as England.
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: the employment law implications of mergers
Merging with another organisation means taking on its staff - and any associated problems such as grievance procedures and litigation claims. Legal expert Rachel Heenan advises on how to avoid nasty post-merger shocks.
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Comment
Adrian Ashurst on making a real difference
'In order to make a real difference, managers and staff need to make a personal commitment to their customers. It is worth remembering that we are all customers - we should be prepared to treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves.'
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Best practice: joining up community sport and health services
A lottery grant for school sport in Merseyside has sparked the creation of a landmark in community sport: a patch of wasteland has been transformed into a £5.2m sports and health hub, where cardiac rehabilitation happens alongside.track events and football matches. Jonathon Ives reports
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Andrew Jones on aligning incentives
'After a few cycles in the policy washing machine, you would have thought we would all have come out looking the same colour and trying to iron out the same creases'
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Whitehall shake-out rumbles more change
'The DoH will not comment on whether posts such as director-general of commissioning will disappear rather than be filled, but is it likely that much of the spate of high-profile leavers, so far and to come, is part of a coming restructuring.'
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Pioneers race on but progress is measured by the backmarkers
'It is notable that not one of the 13 early achiever sites comes from NHS London or NHS East of England'
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Thousands doing unpaid overtime
Nearly three-quarters of NHS workers in England are regularly doing overtime, much of it unpaid, according to the annual Healthcare Commission staff survey.
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News analysis: Taking the private pennies - without the public grief
NHS hospitals looking to increase their private work can run into sticky political and publicity-related situations. So how far can they go, asks Alison Moore
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Trusts face legal action over disability duty
Nineteen NHS trusts are being threatened with court action by the Disability Rights Commission for failing to produce evidence that they do not discriminate against disabled patients or staff.
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Ambulance staff falsified response-time figures
Ambulance control room staff changed response-time figures, improving the trust's performance against government targets, an Audit Commission investigation has revealed.
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PCTs still only half way to choose and book target
Strategic health authorities are planning measures - from a radio campaign to crisis support squads - in an effort to make up lost ground in implementing choose and book.
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Blow to trust efforts to engage GPs
Primary care trusts will not be able to decide how much to pay GPs who sit on professional executive committees.
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PCTs delayed on audiology contract
An audiology contract has been delayed indefinitely because the provider has not been able to sign off quality and safety guarantees with the Department of Health, HSJ has learnt.
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Man behind the 18-week target returns to front line
Duncan Selbie, who piloted the introduction of the 18-week maximum wait target, is to leave the Department of Health before the target is due to be hit.