South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 3050
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'Shocking' experience of black service users uncovered
Black mental health patients report a far worse experience of hospital care than other ethnic groups, a survey has shown.
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RCN attacks back-to-wards plan
The Royal College of Nursing has expressed concerns that trusts across the country are asking senior nurses with specialist skills to go back to the wards as nursing auxiliaries to ease recruitment and financial problems.
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Data fears don't stop survey
The Department of Health is pushing ahead with a massive GP patient experience survey despite fears over data protection issues and dissent from the British Medical Association.
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IT project accused of bullying
Managers have attacked the Connecting for Health IT project for 'bullying' people into talking down problems on the ground.
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Laura Donnelly on the spirit of debate
Bananarama's advice may have been aimed at the boudoir rather than the boardroom, but it could certainly be applied to organisations seeking to engage communities and staff in service change.
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Public health and organisational reform
Professor David J Hunter and Jeffrie Strang story on public health and organisation reform was an excellent, balanced article with a clear conclusion - I couldn't agree more on the need for a moratorium onorganisational reform, and its negative impact on public health, particularly public mental health, my area of ...
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Back to the ward: back-to-front thinking
Even when financial pressure is being felt so heavily up and down the country, it still seems odd that some trusts are asking senior nurses (in at least one case, at director level) to go back to the wards to help out on a regular basis. Read more >>
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Nicholson urges MPs to show courage on reconfiguration
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has urged MPs to concentrate not just on 'how many hospitals we have, but how many lives we can save and improve'. The plea was contained in an impassioned letter laying out the case for service reconfiguration.
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Rights and responsibilities is the issue on the Cabinet table
The government believes it has to reassert its power to make policy in response to the Brown-Blair faction-fighting of the autumn. Public services is one of six policy areas under debate (the others include the role of the state, crime and security) and the first to arrive on the Cabinet ...
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LIFT-funded buildings pass 100 mark
The opening of three new health centres this week through the local improvement finance trust has pushed the NHS above the 100 mark in its LIFT-funded building programme.The 100th building to open was the £3m Longview Drive primary care centre in St Helens and was followed by two more in ...
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Flint unveils £4m sexual health campaign
Health minister Caroline Flint unveiled a £4m sexual health advertising campaign today that aims to make 18-24 year olds as likely to carry a condom when they're 'out on the pull' as they are to have mobile phones or lipstick.The government highlighted research showing that while 90 per cent of ...
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Government announces carer arrangements
The government has defined 'carer' with regard to new rights from 6 April next year for carers to request flexible working arrangements from their employers.Employment relations minister Jim Fitzpatrick announced today that the rules will cover employees caring for an adult who is: their spouse, partner or civil partner; a ...
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When Norma, Dot and Beckie had their say about NHS care...
A pioneering consultation event in Liverpool last week believes it could show the way forward in engaging the public in service redesign. Jeremy Davies was there
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DoH publishes assistive technology report
The Department of Health has published a report highlighting how assistive technology can play its part in meeting the challenge of caring for an ageing population in the community. The report, Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology 2005-06, covers research projects in ...
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World Health Organisation names new director general
China's Dr Margaret Chan should be confirmed today as the new director-general of the World Health Organisation after being nominated by the organisation's executive board yesterday. Dr Chan was director of public health in Hong Kong for nine years - tackling the world's first human ...
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Alcohol death rate doubles
The number of alcohol-related deaths in the UK has more than doubled in the past 15 years, new government figures have revealed.Over 8,000 people died from alcohol-related conditions or incidents in 2005, compared with 4,144 in 1991.See the full figures here
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Hewitt defends NHS reform
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt told the New Health Network yesterday that balancing high-quality care with tight budgets was the NHS's greatest challenge.She said the increasing cost of new medical technologies and drugs and the rising expectations of patients would have to be met. Ms Hewitt acknowledged that reform is 'never ...
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Guidance on treatment of critically sick children launched
The Department of Health, medical royal colleges and the Royal College of Nursing have produced guidance on how best to treat acutely or critically sick children in district general hospitals.The guidance includes training for staff, transfer of sick children, and the needs of sick children's families.Read the full guidance ...