South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 3061
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Only two top scorers in first year of healthcheck ratings
Just two organisations, both of them foundation trusts, have scored top marks in the first healthcheck ratings by the Healthcare Commission.
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Winterton: BME service discrimination 'unethical and unlawful'
Black and minority ethnic mental health service users are being discriminated against in ways that are unethical and unlawful, a health minister has admitted.
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DoH calls for new definition of urgent care centres
The NHS needs a new definition of an urgent care centre and the minimum range of services patients can expect to find there, the Department of Health has said.
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Cross-party politicians unite for rival London blueprint
A council, two MPs and a London Assembly member have drawn up their own plans for a reconfiguration of health services in their part of north London.
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Former health secretary urges halt to Tory manager bashing
The Conservatives will not win elections by continuing to vilify managers, the man drawing up the party's health policy said last week.
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Tories call on government to work with them on NHS Independence Bill
David Cameron has challenged Labour to help his party draw up legislation to give 'independence' to the NHS.
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Conservative conference: charities push for changes to GP incentive framework
Two charities are planning to launch a campaign to push for GPs' incentive payments to be based much more on their success in improving public health.
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Choice: NPSA attacks 'meaningless glossy menus'
The National Patient Safety Agency is to push for better information to inform choice after branding the sort of information available to patients as 'meaningless'.
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HSJ Knowledge
Positive risk-taking to end long-term stays
Mental health: Look Ahead Housing and Care
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HSJ Knowledge
Get a buzz from Wasp: how to get ahead in workforce planning
A long-term conditions workforce planning modelling tool could have benefits across the service, reports Emma Dent
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Cameron speech: Tories elbow their way to the front on independence agenda
'Strategic health authorities will be less happy with the inference that they will become a local arm of the Department of Health, much reduced in power.'
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NHS Maternity Statistics, England 2004-5
A summary of information from the hospital episodes statistics relating to NHS maternities in the year 2004-05. Among the findings: 20 per cent of deliveries were induced, and the caesarean rate remained at just under 23 per cent.
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HSJ Knowledge
'It's not about Americans in 10-gallon hats'
While North Eastern Derbyshire primary care trust's decision to award an APMS contract to UnitedHealth Europe ended in the High Court, at neighbouring Central and Greater Derby PCTs managers are confident that UHE will meet local people's needs. Lynne Greenwood reports
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Tories will not rule out increased NHS spend
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has hinted that a Conservative government could spend more on the NHS than a Labour government under Gordon Brown.
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Tory pledge for more nurses
Every school would have a school nurse under the Conservatives, Andrew Lansley told the party conference.
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Comment: Win some and lose some - our verdict on the conferences
So as this year's party conferences recede over the horizon, who had a good or bad time of it?
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Comment: Keeping afloat in a topsy-turvy market
'Central and Greater Derby primary care trust deserve congratulation for innovating in a way that promises to improve the quality of services.'
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David Lock on an independent NHS
An independent NHS board would be good news for ministers - but what about managers, wonders David Lock
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David Woodhead on gardening for the mind
'She was clear that picking up a spade and plunging it into the ground enabled her to channel some of the anger she had felt the previous week at work.'