South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 3016
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Service at Nuffield Hospitals gets 'better and better'
I note with interest the views of Michael White.and his 'Whitehall chum' on the competitive merits of Nuffield Hospitals and others, who have apparently been 'found wanting' in the process of market reform.
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Lessons from history
'I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising'
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Michael White on Politics
Many Scots assume an SNP-led team would have to modify policies in the face of harsh realities
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Media Watch
Another week, another government attack on fatties and smokers as The Sun told readers that the 'fatties' op' ban is 'fair'. It quoted health secretary Patricia Hewitt who said it was 'perfectly legitimate' for trusts to refuse some treatments to heavy smokers and obese patients.
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Michael White on Politics
I think Hewitt will leave the DoH, not something I would have confidently stated a. month ago
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Noel Plumridge on payment by results
I'm sorry, local currency and price is not payment by results in. a meaningful sense
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Datamonitor: steady progress for acute productivity
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has published the Q3 2006-07 Better Care, Better Value indicators. As the indicators have been published for the first time on the basis of the 152 new primary care trusts (previous quarters reported on the 303 PCTs that existed until Q2 end) the ...
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on going back to the floor
There's often no holding back. I got short shrift once from the cardiac nurses over agency staff policy.
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Data Briefing - John Appleby on climate change and health
The Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency have recently published an update to their seminal 2002 report Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK.
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Michael White on politics
Sunday night is usually quietly un-newsy and health politics is no exception. But not last Sunday night, when it emerged that British Medical Association chair James Johnson had fallen on his scalpel over the medical fiasco.
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Media Watch
'Sack prat Pat' urged The Sun's leader as the paper told readers at the end of last week that 'if there's any justice, Pat Hewitt is not long for this political world'.
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Media Watch
'The backlash came fast and furious. Leading doctors? Bully boys intent on pushing homeopathy out of the NHS, said the What Doctors Don't Tell You website'
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HSJ Knowledge
International development: 'Go and tell people what it's like here'
In the midst of grinding poverty, Malawi's tiny nursing workforce is fighting to meet the country's healthcare needs. Emma Dent reports
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Media Watch
The Department of Health is the second worst-performing government department, The Times told its readers at the weekend. It reported that the review by business leaders and public sector chiefs commissioned by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell was damning about the DoH's 'lack of direction'.
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Media Watch
Given the arrival of a new prime minister and health secretary, most papers offered their advice to Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson.
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Media Watch
'A Sunday Times.article quoted a survey commissioned by health insurer BUPA, which found 55 per cent of senior doctors pay for medical insurance'
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HSJ Knowledge
Sounding off
With the incidence of mental illness among deaf people high and specialised services almost non-existent, getting help can be difficult. Emma Dent explores the gaps in care
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Media Watch
'The Daily Express claimed nurses were 'close to working to rule', saying: 'The move comes after nurses in England were denied the full 2.5 per cent pay rise given to colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for doing exactly the same work''
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Media Watch
News emerged over the weekend that the 'inflexible' hours of GP surgeries were costing the economy an estimated £1bn a year.
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Early learning is key weapon in obesity war
Concerns are mounting over rising obesity, but is enough being done to slim down the problem, asks Liz Kendall