South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1374
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Comment
NHS complaints procedure is a cause for grievance
The NHS needs a more compassionate approach
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News
'Significant difference in opinion' remains over data access
Plans to create “safe havens” where patient identifiable data is processed and pseudonymised for use by bodies across the health service could be dropped, it emerged this week.
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Comment
‘Health tourism’ and the China syndrome
Properly handled, health tourism is a legitimate target that should not be attracting the outrage it has
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HSJ Local
Guy's and St Thomas' fails to hit cancer target
PERFORMANCE Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has experienced further difficulty meeting a key government cancer waiting time target.
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HSJ Local
Trust issues diktat over £40,000 daily overspend
FINANCE: The board of Plymouth Hospitals Trust has banned all non-essential spending and has ordered that all staff appointments are signed off by the director of finance in a bid to tackle a financial crisis.
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News
Monitor asked to consider hostility to new GP providers
New primary care providers are being stifled by GP commissioner hostility, and the inability of existing practices to sell their businesses, the health sector regulator has been told.
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Blogs
Horror movie
Oh good, an NHS trust has produced a video in an attempt to be funny while imparting an important but humdrum message.You may remember last year Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust had a hit with their flu fighters campaign video, which featured a normal bloke called Phil getting a hero’s ...
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News
Hospital takes legal advice over traveller camp
Health chiefs are taking legal advice to eject dozens of French travellers who infuriated front line NHS workers by setting up an encampment in a hospital car park.
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News
Peers back move to extend special administrator power
Peers have backed a move to make it easier for the neighbours of failing providers to be ordered to reconfigure services in order to ensure local health economies are viable.
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News
HSJ Live: 22.10.13: Plymouth bans all non-essential spending
All staff appointments must be signed off by finance director
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News
CSC disputes DH announcement on deal to end national IT programme
The Department of Health and healthcare IT company CSC have published contradictory statements about a deal designed to finalise contractual obligations which date back to the national programme for IT.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why NHS management should be centre stage
The role deserves more training and a higher profile
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HSJ Knowledge
From hospice to hospital: compassionate care for all
A model of compassionate care for all healthcare settings
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Comment
'There has been a deafening silence from clinicians for too long'
Clinical input is crucial to solving care quality issues
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Comment
Data lessons from the education sector
Comparing new ideas in handling health and education data
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: August 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one-year-waits, with links to all the detail by organisation and specialty.
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News
NHS 'could be hit by immigration surcharge'
The NHS could end up having to foot the bill for an immigration surcharge imposed on foreign visitors to limit their impact on the NHS when it recruits staff from overseas, it has emerged.
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Blogs
Hunt's care plan puts burden on family before state
Jeremy Hunt’s proposals for looking after older people are all about ‘care closer to home’
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News
Trust chair criticises 'toxic culture' created by Hunt
The chair of a major teaching hospital trust has said Jeremy Hunt is responsible for a “toxic culture” which has made it harder to recruit senior staff from outside the sector.