South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 1937
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HSJ Local
University Hospitals Bristol records mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust had three mixed sex accomodation breaches in July.
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HSJ Local
North Bristol exceeds C difficile and MSSA targets
PERFORMANCE: North Bristol Trust has exceeded its target for cases of C difficile and reached its annual limit for MRSA cases.
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Blogs
Is the public sector running out of ideas?
The changing role of chief executive’s requires a change in approach. But do the demands on management team leave them no room to manoeuvre?
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Blogs
Lansley and Neil in the waiting times trap
Waiting times have come to mean the opposite of waiting lists, and this has turned public debate on the NHS upside down.
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News
Lansley's 'shining example' forced to deny rationing claims
A social enterprise held up as a “shining example” by Andrew Lansley has been accused of “rationing” physiotherapy services through its use of the flagship any qualified provider policy.
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News
John Healey steps down as shadow health secretary
Shadow health secretary John Healey has resigned from the shadow cabinet, HSJ has learned.
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News
Council chiefs rebel over public health funding sign-off
Council chief executives are understood to have staged a backlash over the Department of Health’s bid to get them to “sign off” local public-health spending figures.
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Comment
The system needs fixing if we're to find the financiers
The NHS’s flawed payments system must be mended and evolved into something more robust and attractive in order to secure the as-yet-undecided new financiers, warn James Barlow, Colin Gray and Steve Wright.
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News
CCGs call for more choice over commissioning support
Clinical commissioners have called on ministers to allow them to access a greater variety of commissioning support, as soon as possible.
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News
Lansley told to produce evidence that personal budgets work
The government must produce evidence that personal health budgets improve outcomes, cost and patient experience before they are fully rolled out, according to a report.
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News
Cost of treating brain disorders doubles
Treating brain disorders such as depression and dementia in the UK is costing £116bn annually, a total which has risen more than 50 per cent in just six years.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham health worker charged with fraud
WORKFORCE: A Birmingham-based health worker has been granted conditional bail after appearing in court charged with four counts of fraud by false representation.
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News
Supply chain faces challenges on two fronts over legal concerns
The procurement service for the NHS is facing challenges on two fronts, HSJ can reveal, amid claims some of its frameworks could put trusts at risk of legal action.
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Comment
Michael White: the search for Tory health debate beyond the fringe
Before the Tory faithful arrived in Manchester for their 2011 conference, a veteran party figure predicted the NHS would not feature much, despite the turbulence behind the Health Bill and the frantic applause lines which Ed Miliband effortlessly generated in the service’s defence a week earlier in Liverpool.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: healthy fun for all the NHS family
What will be this year’s Christmas stocking must have: Mid Staffs Cluedo, PFI Monopoly or Liberating the NHS Scrabble?
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Comment
Media Watch: all of NHS life appears in the papers
Most types of health professional featured in the media this week, though some more positively than others.
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Comment
'We cannot tolerate incompetence in the search for sustainability'
The turnaround of one factory into an efficient, clean, collaborative and effective faciility should shame healthcare organisations into doing more to make sure sustainability in the NHS becomes less an ideal and more a way of working, writes Sir John Oldham.
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Comment
Change plans grind to a halt in the North West
Change takes forever in the NHS. So long, sometimes, that by the time your plan is finally agreed it is out of date, or there are different people in charge and they want to develop a new plan.
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HSJ Knowledge
How coaching can be an antidote to organisational 'groupthink'
Coaching means different things to different people, but a significant element is the ability to listen, and to provide a space that has the potential to challenge the illusion and rhetoric which dominates organisations, and so disempower group “norms”, says Dr Angélique du Toit.
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HSJ Knowledge
The key factors behind a successful implementation of telehealth services
Telehealth can undoubtedly make a difference to the delivery of healthcare services, but only with a successful implementation, as Mark Ayton explains.