South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 3003
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HSJ Knowledge
Ken Jarrold on being a better manager
'Try and get your people to disassociate the message from the messenger'
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Comment
Michael White on politics
Halfway through the Queen's Speech debate's NHS segment, Judy Mallaber, former Unison researcher and now Labour MP for Amber Valley, shamed us all by diverting from local UK problems to those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose recent elections the MP had helped to monitor for fairness.
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News
Media watch
So we're at last going to see an end to junk food advertising aimed at children. And with the announcement came the expected outcry from companies that make their money selling bad food to kids, as well as health professionals who say the new rules will not go far enough.
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HSJ Knowledge
Turnaround strategies and the law
Many NHS bodies are developing turnaround plans to achieve financial recovery. The implementation of these raises complex legal issues, particularly on patient and public involvement and employment law. Graeme Trigg reports
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News
Work together to lessen the gap
Local government can play a key role in improving the quality of people's lives. Achieving this requires stronger partnerships at local level and aligning incentives for health inequalities
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News
Making the most of local area agreements
Using LAAs to combat health inequalities is all well and good in theory, but how do you use them to your best advantage and measure their success in the real world? Saba Salman finds out
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News
Stockton-on-Tees - Strength in firm foundations
'In partnership with the community and voluntary sector, we have sought to involve local people in identifying both needs and solutions'
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News
Old is not ill
With more and more people living longer, the health service and its partners must address some communities' low expectations on quality of life, says Claire Laurent
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News
More power to scrutiny
Stuart Shepherd looks at how scrutiny committees are tackling the growing problem of obesity in Britain
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News
Targeting health - a duty of well-being
Councils can make the most of their powers to build healthy communities, by making sure local shops sell affordable and accessible healthy food, says Saba Salman
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Comment
Healthcare inspection comes under scrutiny of its own
'Numbers do not impart wisdom in themselves, you have to learn how to select and use them'
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Comment
NHS managers have a key role in local politics
'The NHS too often guards its plans for too long and too fiercely'
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Comment
Michael White on politics
'It would have taken a chainsaw to separate Ms Hewitt from the job, despite everything'
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Comment
Simon Stevens on happiness and health
'Six factors apparently explain 80 per cent of the variation in happiness... Not all of these can be tackled by a typical primary care trust.'
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News
Carruthers hit the right note; now follow up with clarity
'What managers need is clarity on what is expected of them and what they can expect from the centre'