South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1413
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Blogs
FOI exemptions revisited
When not busy writing this page, End Game likes to while away the day composing fiendishly worded freedom of information requests, mainly because the ingenuity so many public organisations display as they find reasons to not respond to them is a joy to behold.So take a bow, Northamptonshire County Council, ...
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News
Landmark prescription laws come into force
The UK has become the first country in the world to allow physiotherapists and podiatrists to prescribe drugs to their patients.
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News
Patient feedback hub launched but 2015 target reconsidered
NHS England has “soft launched” a flagship transparency project which allows patients to give real time feedback on their hospital experience.
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News
HSJ Live: 20.08.13 Debate over value of NHS Health Checks
Researchers claim NHS Health Checks are a waste of time, delays to the national launch of real time patient feedback hub and the rest of today’s news and comments
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HSJ Knowledge
The NHS must brace itself for a data deluge
Looking at how best to use the wealth of healthcare data available
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Comment
A merry-go-round of perverse incentives
Outcomes based commissioning. What could possibly go wrong?
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Blogs
A leadership balancing act
It seems that successful senior managers who give interviews fall into two types: the ‘people people’ and the macho managers; neither are helpful role models.
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News
Agency staff spending expected to rise
Spending on agency staff in NHS hospitals is predicted to climb as frontline pressures intensify, according to a report shared with Health Service Journal.
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News
Exclusive: CCGs abandon flagship regional pathology reorganisation
Clinical commissioning groups have abandoned a £500m flagship regional reorganisation of pathology services, dealing a major blow to efforts to bring about major changes in the sector, HSJ can reveal.
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News
One in five councils allocates no child obesity cash, official figures show
Almost a fifth of top-tier councils appear not to have earmarked any funding for tackling child obesity this year, according to official figures.
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PHE says flu and cold weather to blame for spike in excess deaths
The national public health oversight body has said excess deaths during winter 2012-13 “would seem to be” due to “a combination of circulating influenza and cold weather”.
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: June 2013 data
All the local detail on 18 weeks by provider, commissioner and specialty, with interactive maps
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Blogs
Waiting list grows more slowly as NHS catches up
The waiting list grew more slowly in June, helped by higher admission rates. Even though the waiting list remains very large, 18 weeks performance held steady.
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News
Medical chief tried hash cookies
England’s chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has admitted eating hash cookies at university.
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News
GPs warning over care of elderly
The majority of family doctors are concerned that they will not be able to properly care for vulnerable older patients because they are struggling to cope with “spiralling workloads and dwindling resources”, leading doctors said.
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News
HSJ Live 19.08.2013
Nurses teaching CCGs about procurement and the rest of today’s news and comment
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HSJ Knowledge
What nurses can teach CCGs about procurement
Their experience can help reduce waste and save time
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HSJ Local
Takeover of 20 GP practices approved by OFT
COMMERCIAL: The takeover of 20 Merseyside general practices by a North West based company has been approved by the Office of Fair Trading.
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Comment
London's hospitals: a medical history
What today’s leaders can learn from 200 years of the capital’s hospital system