South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1188
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Merged CSU manager remains in post
The NHS England official who ran Cheshire and Merseyside Commissioning Support Unit is still employed as a managing director, despite his organisation having merged with a neighbouring support unit.
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Health Education England launches student assessment tool
Universities offering healthcare courses will be required to assess the values of every potential student in face to face interviews after a Health Education England study found almost one in three were not doing so.
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Exclusive: Deputy prime minister puts faith in winter funding
Nick Clegg is pushing for next year’s NHS budget to be topped up with enough winter pressures funding to leave the service in a ‘healthy state’ for the next government
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HSJ Live 21.10.2014: HSJ to announce top 100 clinical leaders
Tonight HSJ will announce the top 100 clinical leaders in healthcare, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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Comment
Our 'Cinderella service' steps into the limelight
Mental health rises belatedly to the top of the political agenda
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HSJ Local
CCG announces bidders for £40m community services contract
COMMERCE: Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group has named the bidders to make it through the first stage of a procurement process for a £40m community and out of hours contract.
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Radiographers to strike over pay
Radiographers across the UK will strike on October 20 in the latest outbreak of industrial action against the government’s decision not to accept a recommended 1 per cent pay rise for all NHS staff.
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HSJ Local
Trust trials pathway manager to improve cancer performance
PERFORMANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is to pilot a new post of ‘pathway manager’ to speed the transfer of cancer patients from other hospitals to its specialist unit.
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College president warns against clustering in mental health
Parts of the mental health service could be destabilised by the ‘cluster’ payment system proposed for the sector, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has warned.
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Exclusive: Acute trusts told to abandon 'fortress' mentality
Hospitals that blinker themselves to the potential of working with mental health providers will usher in their ‘own financial demise’, the NHS England official overseeing the service has warned
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HSJ Live 20.10.2014: Simon Stevens at public accounts committee
NHS England chief executive to give evidence on healthcare funding before Commons committee, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Comment
Refocus bowel health to cut unnecessary admissions and spending
Constipation costs £59m a year
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HSJ Knowledge
Is 'zero harm' achievable for mental health?
Kicking off a culture change after Francis, Keogh and Berwick
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Fall in GP engagement with CCGs, NHS England survey finds
Only half of GPS feel they are involved in CCG decision making, according to an NHS England commissioned survey
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Government wades into Birmingham referrals row
The government has waded into the row between a leading foundation trust and a group of commissioners after closing its doors to “out of area” referrals for routine care
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HSJ Local
East Sussex CCG puts community contract out to tender
COMMERCIAL: High Weald Lewes Havens Clinical Commissioning has put its community services out to tender after serving notice on its part of a block contract.
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HSJ Local
Patient groups welcome mental health chief’s departure from review panel
PERFORMANCE: Charities and patient groups have welcomed a mental health trust boss’s decision to withdraw from an expert panel examining patient centred care, arguing she was an inappropriate choice for the role.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool reconfiguration plans unveiled
Cancer surgery in Merseyside could be relocated to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, under ambitious proposals being developed to reshape the city’s health services
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CQC will 'learn by doing' fit and proper person checks
The watchdog will have to adopt a ‘learn by doing’ approach when enforcing the fit and proper test of healthcare leaders, its chief executive has admitted
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'Brave' new patient safety drive launched
England’s new patient safety drive to halve avoidable harm will not follow the usual “paternal” NHS approach to driving improvements, the director of the Sign up Safety campaign has said