South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 3010
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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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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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More power to scrutiny
Stuart Shepherd looks at how scrutiny committees are tackling the growing problem of obesity in Britain
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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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HSJ Knowledge
Cold comfort farm
A charity that reaches out to troubled rural workers shows community mental health teams at their best, but elsewhere they appear to be in crisis. Mark Gould reports
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Comment
Media Watch: pay-offs
'Outrage at hospital trust's pay-off after spat' said The Sun, as it revealed 'debt-ridden' Eastbourne Downs primary care trust had paid off its former public health director to the tune of £250,000 after a 'spat' with a colleague.
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Comment
Media Watch: earnings cap
So ministers have 'blundered' again, according to London's Evening Standard. This time it is because they have failed to cap doctors' earnings.
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News
Pub fight breaks out over alcohol
Attempts to tackle alcohol abuse in Manchester have angered local publicans.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on the future of PbR
The original idea behind payment by results was disarmingly simple: more work, more money. But the dilemma was always how to pay for it in a closed, cash-limited system. So what can we anticipate from the consultation paper on the future of payment by results due by the end of ...
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News
Health unions back findings
Chief executives' views mirror closely what Royal College of Nursing and Unison members are saying about the NHS reforms, say the unions' leaders.
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Comment
Michael White: change in the NHS
We were standing on the edge of my local swimming pool discussing the inevitability of change when a fellow wrinklie walked past, saying: 'Don't talk to me about change. I work for the NHS and whenever I hear that word I just switch off.'
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Comment
Media Watch: doctor MoTs
If you'd just open the bonnet now, Dr Cameron, and we'll be through with your MoT for another five years. Before you know it, young Dr Finlay will be up for his MoT too.
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News
New bill to boost London mayor's health remit
A new bill working through Parliament will give extra powers to the London mayor to support the delivery of better public health in the capital.
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LINks face uphill battle on recruitment
Local involvement networks will struggle to recruit members, patient and public involvement forums have warned.