South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1479
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HSJ Local
Innovative bowel cancer screening at South Tyneside
SERVICE DESIGN: South Tyneside District Hospital has become the first in the country to offer a new screening test to prevent bowel cancer.
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HSJ Local
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear launches adolescent bipolar service
SERVICE DESIGN: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Has launched a new adolescent bipolar service
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HSJ Local
Choose and Book under used in North Kirklees
PERFORMANCE: The latest performance board papers for North Kirklees CCG warn that the proportion of patients booked for their first outpatient appointment by their GPs using Choose & Book continues to show an “underperformance against the national standard”.
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Blogs
Scotland slips on outpatient waits
Scotland is slipping badly on its least-enforced waiting times target. It’s not looking good for the most enforced one either.
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Blogs
Your 18-week waits: March 2013 data
The local picture on one-year and 18-week waits across England, updated with the latest (March 2013) data.
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Blogs
Thinking the unthinkable
End Game warmly congratulates the Conservative Party for bravely recognising the scale of the challenge the NHS faces, and daring to think outside the box in public.In this case “the box” they are thinking outside of is the principle of treatment based on clinical need.A Tory consultation paper picked up ...
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Supplements
Up and running − an HSJ efficiency supplement
Examing different ways NHS trusts have improved efficiencies and reduced costs
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HSJ Local
'Urgent action' needed on Southampton trust CIPs
FINANCE: “Urgent action” is needed at University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust to improve the delivery of cost improvement plans.
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HSJ Local
Independent case report criticises Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Trust
A mental health worker savagely stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic who was living in the community should not have been visiting him alone, a report has concluded.
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News
Funding confusion 'directly caused' vulnerable woman's death
A woman with complex mental health problems committed suicide after funding decision errors by a primary care trust and local authority saw her prematurely removed from a care home.
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HSJ Knowledge
Podcast: The next five years for population healthcare
Dr Kevin Fenton on Public Health England and health improvement
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Comment
Prepare for the workforce boom
The DH has to face up to 20,000 future unemployed hospital doctors
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Comment
Michael White: a bad week for GPs and MPs
The papers stir up the battle between doctors and politicians
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News
Concern over NHS giving commercial access to new mothers
NHS officials have been criticised for letting sales people have access to new mothers just hours after they have given birth.
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Blogs
More NHS related cakes
After the extraordinary “Bristol stool tart”, End Game is delighted to learn that that more clinicians have decided to express their love for their jobs through the medium of cake.Members of the Royal College of Midwives have done themselves proud (and End Game a favour) by producing a breathtaking array ...
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News
HSJ Live 29.5.2013: Variations in surgery survival rates
Concerns over variations in surgery survival and ‘friends and family’, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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HSJ Knowledge
Paying for social care: Beyond Dilnot
Paying for social care: Beyond Dilnot discusses the history of social care reform and considers the present and future funding pressures on the system. The paper calls for health and social care services to be considered as a single system with a new framework being put in place for planning ...
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HSJ Knowledge
What German businesses can teach FT governors
Developing the role of foundation trust governors and boards
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HSJ Knowledge
The potential risks of closing small A&Es
Trusts’ struggles have little relation to their size
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HSJ Local
CCG notes Durham and Darlington A&E problems
PEFORMANCE A North Durham CCG board paper warns that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation “continues to struggle to achieve performance” for A&E waiting times.