South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1642
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Comment
Nick Partridge on volunteers
We relied on unpaid volunteers to comfort those coping with what was then a terminal illness
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Comment
Readers' letters – 25 October 2012
Bexley Council responds to our claim that social care in the borough is ‘failing’; and how a service has made it easier for patients to get repeat prescriptions
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HSJ Knowledge
Easing winter pressures
Consultant-delivered multidisciplinary team working is providing a host of positive outcomes
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HSJ Local
Robot used in heart surgery first at Wolverhampton
CLINICAL RESEARCH: Surgeons at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton have successfully carried out the UK’s first robotically-assisted open heart surgery.
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HSJ Local
Worcestershire review decision pushed into New Year
STRUCTURE: A shortlist of options to reconfigure acute services in Worcestershire could be unveiled by the New Year after being delayed for the second time.
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HSJ Local
Southampton trust pioneers 'bedside clinics' for diabetes inpatients
RESEARCH: Clinicians in Southampton are piloting a new way of treating diabetes patients during hospital stays.
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HSJ Local
South Warwickshire extends visitor restrictions due to norovirus
PERFORMANCE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has extended visitor restrictions due to an ongoing norovirus outbreak.
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HSJ Local
Trust probes finance ‘concern’
FINANCE East and North Hertfordshire Trust has launched a probe after its September income was “significantly down” on forecast, a report by discussed by its board said.
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HSJ Local
Foundation will be test site for redesign of unplanned care
Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust has been chosen as a test site for a six-month project aiming to deliver significant improvements in emergency and urgent care.
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News
Monitor has 'concerns' over pension plan
Monitor has revealed it has “significant concerns over the affordability” of a plan to build a new hospital with a ground-breaking loan from a pension fund.
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Comment
A perverse take on incentives
There is a new twist to the long-running debate about perverse incentives in the NHS
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News
OFT begins scrutiny of merger plans
The Office of Fair Trading has begun a formal review examining what it predicts will be the “first of a number” of mergers between foundation trusts.
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Leader
Revalidation cannot be left to GMC alone
Will boards have the influence necessary to make medics take revalidation seriously?
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HSJ Local
Central Southern CSU set to appoint MD
WORKFORCE: John Wilderspin is set to be appointed as managing director of the Central Southern commissioning support unit.
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News
HSJ Live: rolling news 24.10.12
Farrar says third of acute services not required and the rest of the day’s news
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News
Cancer budget cut 'only admin' says minister
The government is not cutting NHS funding but “moving money around” to ensure it is better spent, according to health minister Anna Soubry.
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News
Third of acute care 'not needed'
A third of acute services in the NHS are not needed, the NHS Confederation has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Ontario’s deficit crisis: lessons for England
We would do well to swot up on the Canadian hospital reforms saga of the 1990s
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Comment
At last, a consumer-led NHS?
Britain’s ‘rich complaining culture’ should be at the heart of an open NHS
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HSJ Local
No disciplinary action over HEFT never event
PERFORMANCE: An incident of drugs being given inappropriately to a patient led to no disciplinary action or referrals to relevant professional bodies, despite being listed as a “never event”.