South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2963
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: IVF
At the crux of the present IVF debate is a lack of clarity over its role and status. Ben Troke analyses the medical and legal ramifications
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News
Measuring the quality of learning disability services
Inspired by recent findings the Foundation for People with Learning Difficulties has found that using metrics can provide evidence to better inform healthcare professionals. Varya Shaw reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Challenging the assumptions of NHS marketing
Patient choice has meant the inevitable idea of commercial.promotion for.healthcare, a complex arena mixing competitive business.with public service. Ann Crofts outlines the implications
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HSJ Knowledge
Kate Silvester on process mapping
Mapping a process can help to solve problems, leading to savings, better efficiency and happier staff
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News
Major malfunction
The market-based system of payment by results is not functioning as hoped, causing adversarial relationships,
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Comment
Richard Bourne on the price of better performance
The NHS.occupies a special place in the national psyche. It is a huge organisation with the major economic consequences implied. It is at the heart of politics, with the perceived state of the NHS being a proxy for the popularity of a government.
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Comment
'Radical rethink' needed to cope with staffing crisis
One in five school leavers will have to make the NHS their employer of first choice if future vacancies are to be filled and services maintained.
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Comment
Doctors have feelings too
I read Anna Donald's article on doctors' motives with interest (opinion, page 17, 8 March 2007). In terms of what doctors need, it is about finding an acceptable means of emotional release.
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News
Electronic health records - cutting through the hysteria
There is a lot of hysteria about electronic health records. Those of us who have worked inside health institutions have no illusions about the safeguards applied to paper records. Paper records are often not available when needed, even in the institution where they are created. And there is almost no ...
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Feedback on Peter Degeling's article on integrated care pathways.
We write in relation to the recent article written by Peter Degeling on integrated care pathways. The claim that '30 clinicians walked out of a recent presentation' in Swansea is entirely false.
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Comment
Is flu testing really necessary?
I have to question whether the Department of Health's flu pandemic testing is really the best use of UK.taxpayers' money.
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Comment
There's life in patient forums yet
The patient forum concerned in the North Eastern Derbyshire primary care trust.versus Pam Smith, is far from dead or in danger of passing away ('moribund' is your term for it).
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News
Inequalities: the plain truth
Thank you Ruth Hussey for your plain speaking about tackling inequality. Commissioners need to take note, but we need to innovate not replicate.
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Comment
New day, same old reforms
I haven't had any first hand experience of this latest round of organisational change in the English NHS, having left it to work in Scotland some years ago in horror at the Tory internal market 'reforms' that resulted in the mass-sacking of almost everyone I respected in NHS administration.
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Comment
The real best value
Dr Andy Jones writes on the reality of best value primary care and seems to conclude that clinical engagement is the key. However, it is unclear where the best value is to come from and in particular the role that he envisages for GPs and their teams.
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Comment
Dispatching the New Labour ideal
As a participant in the Dispatches programme The NHS - Where did all the money go?, may I offer the following reflections to your correspondent Donald.Reid. He is right that there have been improvements in key areas, including waiting times.
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News
With friends like Milburn...
I have some sympathy with the chief executives of acute trusts surveyed in your report. The Department of Health.may end up paying a high price for its game of 'central credit and local blame'.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: life on Mars
‘The ambulance would be at least an hour and that they should do what first aid they could until the paramedics arrived’
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News
Joint replacements to face tougher safety tests
New European legislation has reclassified hip, knee and shoulder joint replacements in an attempt to make them safer.They will now require a higher level of scrutiny by certification organisations, before they are placed on the UK market.The change follows concerns that hip implants were not classed as a high-risk device ...
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News
Sudan blighted by meningococcal disease
A mass vaccination campaign is being carried out in southern Sudan to halt the spread of meningococcal disease.New, provisional figures show the region has seen nearly 7,000 suspected cases of meningococcal disease in the first three months of 2007, including 430 deaths.The government of southern Sudan, the World Health Organisation ...