South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1579
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Blogs
The policy doctor
Many health policy fans noticed that details of a government review recommending the banning of packed lunches for schoolchildren were published on the same day that the Department of Health decided that actually plain packaging for tobacco products was a terrible idea.End Game was among those confused as to what ...
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Blogs
A new lobbying scandal?
No one can doubt Tory MP, health committee member and former GP Sarah Wollaston’s seriousness.It might not even be too far say she is the parliamentarian most respected by the NHS.No-one would doubt the seriousness of her stance on plain packaging for tobacco, a policy put on a backburner last ...
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Blogs
Pure froth
“Imagine a world where our health literacy matched our coffee literacy.” So tweeted Johnny Marshall, the NHS Confederation policy director and all round jolly good egg, linking to piece he’d written for the BBC.The gist of Mr Marshall’s argument was that patients should be treated more like customers and if ...
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NewsLabour's 'whole person care' commission seeks input from service
The independent commission created by Labour to make recommendations for delivering “whole person care” has begun an open consultation.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 19 July 2013
Hospices can serve as a role model for NHS staff; fostering high-quality staff development and leadership; and lack of commitment to blame for reform failures
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NewsHSJ Live: 19.7.2013: NHS England issues end of life care guidance
NHS England sets out how trusts should treat patients who are dying following the announcement that the Liverpool Care Pathway is to be scrapped.
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HSJ LocalMid Staffs survey reveals claims of continuing poor care
Some patients at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust are continuing to suffer poor care more than four years after widespread failures at the trust first emerged.
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CommentBernie Cuthel: 'Compassionate responses go a long way'
The trust chief exec discusses developing her leadership style
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HSJ KnowledgePodcast: Lessons for the NHS from the FTSE 100
What can the NHS do to encourage more women leaders?
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HSJ KnowledgeEncouraging more women to become medical physicists
How to attract women to the profession
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HSJ KnowledgeLooking for female role models in the NHS
Suzanne Rastrick on leadership and confidence
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CommentAll NHS boards should have members under 30
‘Generation Y’ is at the forefront of a digital revolution
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NewsCQC appoints social care chief inspector
The Care Quality Commission has announced the appointment of its first chief inspector for social care.
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HSJ Local
Bolton missing pressure ulcer targets
PERFORMANCE: Bolton FT missed most of its targets for reduction of the incidence of pressure ulcers in the first two months of 2013-14, its latest performance report states.
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HSJ Local
North East London scores well on Friends and Family
PERFORMANCE: North East London Foundation Trust has scored well on Friends and Family Test for the year to date, board papers reveal.
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HSJ Local
Monitor gives Heatherwood three-month deadline
PERFORMANCE Monitor has given Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust three months to correct “poor care and shortfalls in accident and emergency”, the regulator has announced.
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Blogs
It's the vision thing
Joseph Chamberlain, the man who brought street lighting and paving to Birmingham, is generally considered the nation’s greatest public health visionary.But perhaps Public Health England can be seen to have similar visionary powers.A few months ago the organisation was widely mocked for producing an action plan to deal with a ...
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Blogs
Summer perils
We despaired for so long because the sun refused to appear. Now summer’s here it’s apparent that we’d forgotten the dangers of heat waves.End Game was thinking about leaving the office and heading home, and maybe taking the children for a trip around the sun-drenched garden on the ride-on mower, ...
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NewsBaumann: NHS needs 'heroic' savings to pay for integration fund
Government plans to create a £3.8bn pooled fund for health and social care commissioning will take the level of savings needed by the health service in 2015-16 to at least 6 or 7 per cent, NHS England’s chief financial officer has warned.
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Blogs
The waiting list grows, but 18 week waits improve
A narrow record-best on 18 weeks, slippage on one-year-waits, and a further worrying increase in the number waiting.