South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1790
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HSJ Knowledge
Get to grips with qualification change
Is 2012 crunch time for EU recognition of professional qualifications? Elisabetta Zanon finds out.
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HSJ Knowledge
Board brilliance unpacked
What is it like working with a high performing NHS board? Penny Lock and Margot Corbin took a look inside the very best.
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HSJ Knowledge
In detail: how Kettering tackled VTE
How did Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust meet the national VTE assessment target? Scott Savage explains.
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HSJ Knowledge
Diagnosis: earlier
Research has found that for many patients diagnosis is too slow, so an alliance of patients, professionals and charities is campaigning for earlier action
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HSJ Knowledge
An open source vision
A campaign is attempting to bring VistA, an open source IT system, to the NHS. Why should you consider it?
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HSJ Knowledge
Serious about improving care? Then use the net promoter score
Health professionals are being urged to consider the way they measure the effectiveness of the care they give in a bid to further improve patient experience.
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HSJ Knowledge
How Colchester brought its services back in-house
Nick Chatten, Philip Kitchener and Marcus Hill explain in detail some of the issue they faced when Colchester brought its facilities services back in-house
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Comment
Tim Wilson: thirty good men and true
Reassurance, respect, relationships, responsibility and reporting.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 12 April 2012
Are 12-hour nursing shifts harming care? Plus a tribute to a popular manager.
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Comment
Don Redding: give the public remote control
To create a mandate for the commissioning board that truly belongs to the public, the government should take a cue from the BBC.
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Comment
Paul Corrigan: the integration conundrum
It seems to me that the more everyone agrees with the policy of integrated care, the further away the reality of integrated practice seems to be?
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News
Doctors: disabled patients get poorer care in hospital
A poll of hundreds of hospital doctors and GPs has found most believe patients with a learning disability get poorer care than the rest of the population.
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News
Plan for clinical awards, hospitals told
NHS providers should budget for an employer-based round of clinical excellence awards taking place later this year, NHS Employers has said.
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News
Patient campaigner bids for top commissioning board role
A patient and public involvement campaigner has applied for a senior NHS Commissioning Board role, partially in protest at tokenistic participation “rituals”.
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Blogs
On the road to Recovery
The government made Recovery the mental health strategy’s defining goal in February - which gives mental health service providers to do something truly radical, says Sean Duggan.
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Blogs
Are we expecting too much of the CQC?
It has been open season on the Care Quality Commission for some time now.
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News
London trusts could cut nurse expenditure by up to half
Some London hospital trusts could safely cut their spending on nurses by half, NHS London documents have claimed.
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News
Private hospital will offer ‘the only’ tertiary care beds in Kent
A private hospital in Kent will claim to offer NHS and private patients “the only” cardiothoracic and neurosurgery tertiary care beds in the county, helping to reduce referrals to London trusts.
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News
Larger trusts warn over C difficile rules
New Monitor rules on C difficile infections could still mean foundation trusts are downgraded by the regulator for relatively small outbreaks, HSJ has been told.
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News
Exclusive: Poor patients face shorter GP opening hours
The number of GP practices paid to offer longer opening hours dropped sharply last year, an HSJ investigation has revealed. The fall was particularly steep in poorer areas.