South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1847
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News
Cuts to commissioning management 'risk quality and savings'
Managers in Partnership has criticised plans to half the number of staff working on key parts of NHS planning and commissioning.
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News
CQC is 'fit for job', says permanent secretary
The Department of Health official tasked with reviewing the Care Quality Commission has said it is “fit for the job” but will take another two years to be fully effective.
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News
Chief midwife brands Lansley's comments 'below the belt'
The chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives has hit back at the health secretary over claims that clinicians were opposing the government’s health bill because of concerns about pensions.
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Government orders nursing regulator review
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to undergo a strategic review due to its failure to deal with a long standing backlog of fitness to practise cases, it has been confirmed.
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News
Fire service to discuss sharing ambulance stations
Fire authority leaders are to discuss a report suggesting that millions of pounds could be saved if fire stations were shared with the ambulance service.
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Unions to hold reform summit with royal colleges
Health unions and royal colleges will hold a summit tonight to discuss the government’s controversial reforms of the NHS.
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Key risks posed by NHS commissioning reforms revealed
The NHS Commissioning Board has admitted that “key risks” to its success include the haemorrhaging of senior leaders during the reform transition and a shortage of staff to commission specialist and primary care.
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Comment
'Reconfiguration may do more harm than good'
History warns us that reconfiguration is not the panacea it’s cracked up to be, says Andy McKeon.
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Leader
A weak private sector is bad news for the NHS
The future for the private hospital sector is not a pretty one, as our exclusive analysis of Laing and Buisson’s authoritative annual market review reveals, and this conclusion prompts two questions.
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HSJ Local
Commissioner contract still unsigned at RUH
FINANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath Trust has still not signed a contract with its lead commissioner for 2011-12, less than three months before the end of the financial year.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: just how much will public health have?
So local authorities, it appears, won’t be getting much of a public health fund after all.
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News
Private patient income continues to fall
The NHS’s real terms income from treating private patients declined in 2010 for the fifth year, according to market analysts Laing and Buisson.
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Comment
Michael White: will Lansley's Healh Bill survive the 'big push'?
Do you remember the Battle of the Bulge? No, nor do I. It was the last German counter-offensive on the western front in World War II, a thrust through the Ardennes at Christmas 1944 that hoped to push British and American armies back into the Channel.
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Exclusive: private acute providers warned over slowing NHS-funded work
The UK’s private acute healthcare industry shrank in 2010 for the first time in at least three decades despite continued growth in its NHS-funded business, according to a new report by analysts Laing and Buisson.
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News
GMC moves on 'gagging clauses' in pay-off deals
Trusts and clinicians have been prohibited from writing or signing “gagging clauses” that could prevent whistleblowing.
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Comment
Media Watch: January gloom continues as colleges are next to oppose bill
‘Blue Monday’ might have been last week but the downbeat mood has continued for many in the media coverage of the health service.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to use clinical supervision to increase the use of evidence-based practice
Clinical supervision affords clinicans and planners the time and application opportunity to engage with research and evidence that can inform professional practice in the day-to-day environment, argue Emily Steventon and colleagues.
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Comment
'Don't rush through regulation at the expense of innovation'
The PIP breast implant scandal has raised difficult questions for trusts and clinicians about the faith they place in the reliability of medical devices they use.
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HSJ Local
Two London mental health trust bosses announce departure
WORKFORCE: Two of London’s three non-foundation trust mental health organisations have announced the departure of their chief executives.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why it's vital to improve patient access to information
In an age of instant access to news and data, on the go and 24 hours a day, patient access to healthcare information and decisions remains unreliable and poorly connected. An independent council in Northern Ireland is trying to change this, as Maeve Hully explains.