South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 3036
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Physical activity mapping questionnaire launched
A questionnaire to help GPs determine the level of physical activity carried out by patients has been published.For more information click here
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PCTs should be more accountable, chiefs say
A poll of PCT chief executives and chairs has found that they think their organisations need to be more accountable to patients and local communities. Almost half felt foundation trust style membership could help strengthen local accountability.www.nhsconfed.org
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Scottish mental health delivery plan published
The Scottish Executive has published a mental health delivery plan, including basic mental health training for everyone who works with children, halving admissions of children and young people to adult beds and reducing anti-depressant prescribing and repeat hospital admissions for mental illness.To read the plan click ...
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Czars make case for service reconfiguration
National director for emergency access Sir George Alberti has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration of access to emergency care services. And national director for heart disease and stroke Professor Roger Boyle has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration in heart disease ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Gail Richards on local area agreements
'If the first phase of LAAs has concentrated on designing and ensuring focused target delivery, albeit in partnership, now we need to ask whether this is sufficient.'
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: how do you solve a problem like Patricia...?
To: Don Wise, chief executive
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A networking approach to commissioning
Intelligent commissioning will not succeed unless commissioners at all levels are able to profit from the experience of others and understand their own contribution in the context of the contributions of others
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HSJ Knowledge
Social enterprise conference speeches
NHS Networks, in collaboration with the Department of Health social enterprise unit, the Social Enterprise Coalition and the Cabinet Office, organised a one-day conference on social enterprise in London on 10 October 2006.
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Matrons national network
This newly established network is aimed at matrons within acute settings, allowing them to share practice, ideas and innovation and set standards within patient experience and patient environment. The matrons national network aims to:
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Teaching PCTs conference
The Teaching Primary Care Trusts Network held its national conference at the end of October.
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HSJ Knowledge
The future of the NHS complaints procedure
Reforms to the complaints process are intended to produce a fundamental shift away from attributing blame. Tony Yeaman explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Frank Burns on collective failure
The national IT programme has failed to achieve and responsibility over the longer run ultimately must lie with the senior management community at every level
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Independent centre deals abandoned
The Department of Health is set to abandon a large swathe of its independent treatment centre programme more than a year after it invited providers to bid for the lucrative deals, HSJhas learned.
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I'm a celebrity, I love it here
Trusts will be able to spend as much as they like on advertising under a draft code of practice proposed by the Department of Health this week. Hospitals could also use celebrity patients to endorse their services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Lyn Whitfield on big government
'Neither doctors nor the public seem convinced of the need for the national database element'
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HSJ Knowledge
Alan Maynard on outcomes
'Most of our customers survive the NHS even though we do not measure whether they feel better as a consequence'
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Comment
Bed day costs
The Department of Health productivity indicators (click herefor story) detail how much each trust can save by reducing bed stay.
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Comment
Learning disability and language
Letters from Sam Smith, executive director, C-Change for Inclusion, Glasgow; Val Rowlands, superintendent physiotherapist, Stockport Learning Disability Service; and Rod Campbell, director of communication and development, The Regard Partnership, Kingston-upon-Thames
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Comment
Service link economics
Can Monitor chair Bill Moyes and KPMG consultant Kate Barber explain what is new about the 'The new economics' and justify the statement: 'Treating individual services as profit and loss units promises to transform financial management and clinical engagement' ( HSJ, 16 November 2006)?