South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 2999
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HSJ Knowledge
Best practice: stopping patients falling in hospital
When a patient falls in hospital it betrays the principle that a doctor - and by extension the healthcare system - should do no harm.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why hospitals are like cashpoints
When I first began talking to primary care staff about the Croydon virtual wards project I had to explain to them that patients would only be offered admission if they ranked highly on predictions from a computer.
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: franchising
Merger with a successful foundation trusts may seem the obvious solution for failing trusts. Indeed, the first such merger between Heart of England and Good Hope is well under way. But merging a successful trust with an unsuccessful target will not necessarily create a financially viable organisation, and the risks ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Outcomes measures tools
A range of good quality outcomes measures tools exist to help us collect information in a structured and evidence-based way. These tools contain a set of questions - the same questions are answered at agreed points in a person's care over time in order to track changes. People coming into ...
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HSJ Knowledge
The CSIP northwest routine outcomes collaborative
The CSIP Northwest routine outcomes collaborative was launched in July 2006. The programme uses a proven collaborative method and is designed to ensure the use of outcome measures during the routine practice of mental health service delivery. The primary objective of the collaborative is to ensure that outcome measure data ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Health outcomes measurement in Southwark adult mental health services
The CSIP project is linking with local services to share best practice and learning.
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: consultation
The rule 'he who pays the piper picks the tune' does not apply directly to the NHS but legal consultation duties come some way close. The NHS is a public service so all the money it spends is coughed up by the public in taxes. Consultation duties are about giving ...
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HSJ Knowledge
The big C
The latest figures show C difficile rates are climbing. Alison Moore reports on what a major challenge for 2007 will bring
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News
Statutory control on decisions is not enough to allay fears
All over the country, primary care trust chief executives are sitting hot and sweaty in their best suits, fighting for their future careers.
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Comment
Maternity services are everyone's baby
Labour's most recent election manifesto promised that by 2009 all women would have choice on where and how they have their baby.
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Comment
Simon Stevens on the case for independence
It now seems likely that, regardless of political party, our next prime minister will toy with some version of 'independence' for the NHS. Independence for the Bank of England is seen as one of the government's more important reforms, so an NHS parallel could resonate. And shadow health secretary Andrew ...
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Comment
Much-needed campaign brought cheer in the midst of gloom
'Andy Burnham makes some thoughtful points about how managers can improve their own publicity'
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Comment
Petitions can a play role in local engagement
EM Forster famously gave democracy two cheers; the NHS seems rather less enthused.
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News
HSJ barometer: public health June 2006
Directors of public health tended to be less confident about hitting their local targets for 2006-07 than they were for last year, with scores falling against drug treatment and alcohol dependency, although scores for smoking cessation rose slightly.
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News
Noel Plumridge on questioning commissioning
As HSJreaders will be aware, the Department of Health is keen to improve standards of commissioning in the NHS.Much has been written in recent months about demand-management techniques (or rationing, as we used to call it) being the route to financial happiness. About the ...
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on living with cancer
'Acupuncture and ginger beer have been as effective as any the anti-emetics I've been doling out for years'
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Comment
Michael White on politics
'The charges problem boils down to a classic dilemma of democratic politics in a market-orientated society'