South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1699
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News
Letter reveals uncertainty hanging over quality observatories
Regional quality observatories - set up to monitor and improve service standards - may come to an end when strategic health authorities are abolished next year, a letter reveals.
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News
Call for NHS 111 rollout slowdown undermined
Just eight clinical commissioning groups have asked the Department of Health for an extension to the deadline for the rollout of NHS 111, despite widespread calls for the process to be slowed down.
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News
Trust wins treatment intervention ruling
A health trust has won a court ruling that medical staff do not have to forcibly give a seriously ill man the life-prolonging treatment he is resisting.
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News
A&E 12-hour wait numbers double in Scotland
The number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be seen at Scottish accident and emergency departments has more than doubled in three years, new figures show.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership reports high levels of emergency readmissions
PERFORMANCE: More than 12 per cent of psychiatric patients at Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust were readmitted as a psychiatric emergency within 28 days of discharge during June 2012.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership in joint working discussions
STRUCTURE: The chair and chief executive of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust have met with their counterparts at Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust to discuss potential for joint working.
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News
Nicholson orders trusts to offer approved drugs
All NHS organisations have been ordered to publish details of which drugs they will routinely fund in a bid to make sure patients get medicines they are legally entitled to.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 9 August 2012
A patient-centred service is a distant vision from Danny Boyle’s Olympic celebration
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News
Clinical assessment service joins litigation authority
The body that deals with concerns over the professional practice of doctors, pharmacists and dentists is to become an operating division of the NHS Litigation Authority.
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Blogs
50 Shades of management
What is a management restructuring but a way of gently but firmly forcing you to adopt a new position, testing your flexibility and willingness to please?
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Blogs
Candy coated cartels, fear and loathing - is there a better way forward?
How might policymakers, regulators and healthcare leaders work constructively to produce an informed and proportionate competition regime applied to the NHS?
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HSJ Knowledge
The paper chase is on
As trusts change the record, strategic approaches to document scanning are key
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HSJ Knowledge
Doctors should care to lead
There are good reasons why doctors should get involved in NHS decision making
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Comment
In the new NHS, you are what you tweet
Social media is no longer optional but an essential tool, says Joe McCrea
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News
Bed waiting times soar for A&E admissions
The number of patients waiting more than four hours in emergency departments for a bed to become available has rocketed in the past year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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HSJ Knowledge
Olympic legacy of a better life
NHS London is hopeful the Games will leave a lasting legacy after the athletes depart
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Comment
Social media for NHS dummies
Be yourself - but never post under the influence. Lisa Rodrigues offers her tips for tweeters
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News
Emergency services feel strain of telephone trial
A telephone triage system developed by Connecting for Health to direct patients to the most appropriate forms of care appears to be increasing pressure on emergency services, HSJ has discovered.
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Comment
Michael White: Lansley's pragmatism
Even local Tory MPs prefer a local NHS trust to take over
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HSJ Knowledge
How to make it to merger
Trusts can boost their chances of success when merger proposals are considered