South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1572
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HSJ Local
Northern Devon closes inpatient beds
STRUCTURE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has announced a temporary closure of a community hospital to inpatients following a critical Care Quality Commission inspection.
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News
Labour MP calls for moratorium on A&E closures
A Labour MP has called on ministers to impose a moratorium on closures of hospital emergency departments until the NHS Commissioning Board’s national review on the subject has been carried out.
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HSJ Knowledge
Pagers off: the end for the bleep
New communications devices can help improve hospital services
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HSJ Knowledge
Using technology to better manage long-term conditions
The current model of long-term conditions management in the NHS is not sustainable
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Leader
Francis report: sensible, verbose, impractical
The government response will need much consideration
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HSJ Local
Medway FT fined after patient fell from window
PERFORMANCE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust has been sentenced for safety failings after a vulnerable patient died following a fall from a first floor window at Medway Maritime Hospital.
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HSJ Local
Social enterprise renews community service deal
COMMERCIAL: A new contract has begun for Central Surrey Health to continue delivering community services for the 290,000 people living in the central Surrey region.
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Comment
We urgently need to reimagine healthcare
We need the service to deliver health and social care
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HSJ Knowledge
New accountability in CCG commissioning
We must reflect on who’s in charge in the post-reform NHS
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News
NHS Midlands and East 'failed', say MPs
The strategic management of health resources across the east of England strategic health authority has “failed”, according to an influential committee of MPs.
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Comment
Michael White: new thinking on hospital closures
The public and MPs are at odds over hospitals like Lewisham
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Supplements
This time it's different: an improvement roundtable debate
The NHS has repeatedly talked about revolutionary change but the roundtable panel on improvement agreed: this time it really has to happen. Alison Moore reports on experts’ views of how the health service can deliver much more for much less
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News
Innovators 'must provide more evidence' about product effectiveness
Pharmaceutical and technology companies looking to introduce their products into the NHS must do more research to demonstrate effectiveness, a senior NHS Commissioning Board official has said.
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Comment
Real policy dilemma is about spending, not saving
The future debate will be between more tax or more private healthcare
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Comment
Mid Staffs' future now Francis has reported
Stafford needs a good local hospital for the future
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Comment
Why using digital data will drive up care quality
Once you digitise the data, you can reinvent healthcare
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News
Francis live: rolling news 7.2.2013
The latest news on the Francis report and the rest of today’s news
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News
Francis: Regulating healthcare assistants would not cost 'too much'
Regulating healthcare assistants would be simple and would not “cost too much money”, according to Robert Francis QC.
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News
Cameron tells GMC and NMC to improve accountability
The prime minister has told the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council it must outline the steps they will take to strengthen their systems of accountability in the light of the Francis report.