South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1377
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News
Bournemouth and Poole merger is blocked
The proposed merger of two Dorset foundation trusts has been blocked by the Competition Commission after it concluded there was insufficient evidence patients would benefit from the plans.
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News
HSJ Live: 17.10.13: Second wave of trust inspections to be announced
Care Quality Commission’s strategy director says names will be released soon
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News
CSUs prepare to form partnerships to ensure survival
Commissioning support units are engaged in a “ritual dance” to find appropriate partners after NHS England signalled another round of consolidation in the sector.
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HSJ Knowledge
Six questions non-executives should ask their boards
Focus on the key questions that matter when managing change
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Comment
New approach to enforcing rules and incentives would be a jolt
The NHS can follow the US’s lead on payment system
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News
Ministers propose extension of special administrator powers
Both NHS trusts and foundation trusts which are the neighbours of failing providers could be ordered to reconfigure services under a proposed law change.
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Comment
Care Bill: Lords distracted by spiritual matters
The new law is having a bumpy ride through Parliament
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News
Fury at hospital parking charges
Campaigners have slammed car parking charges at hospitals, with some NHS organisations charging almost three times the national average.
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News
Complaints about doctors increase
The number of complaints about doctors made by their colleagues or patients is on the rise, according to new figures.
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Leader
Politicians aren’t the only cause of the NHS’s uncertain future
Lack of collaboration across the service
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News
OFT to rule on key pathology mergers as another project collapses
Fresh evidence has emerged of the impact competition probes are having on plans to reconfigure services after Office of Fair Trading investigations were cited as barriers to two major pathology reorganisations.
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News
Bennett promises flexible Monitor
The Monitor chief executive has emphasised the need for its regulation to be flexible to respond to new types of provider, and to the need for change in the NHS.
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News
Tariff on A&E 'is wrong', says head of emergency care review
The man leading NHS England’s review of urgent and emergency services in England has said an activity-based funding model was “wrong”.
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Blogs
Laser guided surgery
End Game was excited to read of a clever new cancer intervention being pioneered by University Hospital Birmingham.It’s called “CyberKnife”, but less scary than that sounds because it is actually a tiny beam of radiotherapy, and not a grudge-bearing robot with a blade.According to the blurb, “it uses technology similar ...
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News
CCGs resist NHS England over support services
Clinical commissioning group leaders have firmly asserted their independence ahead of an attempt by NHS England to encourage them to make more use of commissioning support units.
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News
Care.data will ‘reduce flow of confidential data around NHS’
The establishment of a new national patient database will “reduce the flow of patient identifiable data” around the NHS, the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s clinical director said yesterday.
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News
HSJ Live: 16.10.13 Activity-based funding model was 'wrong'
Head of emergency services review makes criticism in ‘personal capacity’
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HSJ Knowledge
Make a link between mental and physical health services
Liaison psychiatry can help achieve parity between services
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Comment
Lord Saatchi is wrong, the law isn't killing patients
We need a better understanding of individual cancer patients
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Comment
A brave NHS can make self-management possible
Empowering patients and their carers to make decisions