South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 314
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NewsTrusts appoint joint CEO
Two coastal trusts embarking on a new leadership model have appointed a joint chief executive.
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News‘Constructive’ first ambulance strike agreement revealed
Elderly people who fall may only be sent an ambulance after they have spent four hours on the floor, and some category 2 calls may not be responded to under one of the first agreements with ambulance unions about next week’s strikes.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Freedom, or nothing left to lose
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsAmbulance strike threatens ‘different magnitude of risk’
The ambulance staff strike next week represents a far higher risk to patient safety and services than the nurses’ strike, but a blanket elective ban will only be used as “an absolute last resort”, a senior NHS England director said today.
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HSJ PartnersClinicians spend a third of working hours on documentation
Nuance Communications appointed an independent research firm to examine clinical documentation challenges faced by NHS trusts in England, revealing the staff spend a third of their time on documentation
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NewsVulnerable patients facing long delays for beds amid funding rows
Vulnerable patients, including some children, have faced long delays for a suitable bed as organisations argue over whose responsibility it is to fund and deliver their care, HSJ understands.
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NewsEx-hospital chief takes over new trust
A former acute boss is returning to NHS management to lead a mental health and community services trust.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Organograms assemble
This week, we bring you the latest on the hospital building programme, including confirmation that all new buildings must have single patient rooms. We discuss the staffing and safety challenges this will bring for trusts.
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HSJ PartnersEverybody wins if we make prevention and early diagnosis a priority
Geoff Twist, managing director at Roche Diagnostic UK & Ireland sheds light on how prevention and early diagnosis can reap better health benefits for patients, helping address immediate challenges the NHS is facing
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CommentA day in the life of a social care CEO
The sixth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. We get a glimpse into a day in the life of CEO Dan Hayes as he runs through an average day on the job which ...
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CommentThere is no shared vision for social care data
The seventh in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Adam Hunt, digital transformation lead at the National Care Forum shares his thoughts on how access to the right information can transform the health and ...
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NewsICS has ‘strained and challenging’ relationships, review finds
Relationships between commissioners, providers and the local authority in a troubled integrated care system are ‘strained and challenging’, according to an external review it commissioned.
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HSJ PartnersAn opportunity to cut waiting times and deliver better outcomes in child and adolescent mental health services
Richard Comerford discusses how partnerships offers trusts an opportunity to cut waiting times and deliver better outcomes in child and adolescent mental health services
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NewsTrusts press for more ‘life and limb’ cover during ambulance strike
Ambulance trusts are pressing unions to confirm that crews will cover at least some ‘category two’ calls — which include suspected heart attacks and strokes — during next week’s strike, amid growing fears for patients’ safety.
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Expert BriefingAmbulance strike is hospitals' nightmare before Christmas
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Comment'Trusted' NHS must bring R&D benefits to the disadvantaged
Realignment of R&D investment could generate a better return on R&D investment to UK plc by improving access to innovative medicines, reducing variations in health outcomes, reengaging people with the labour market, and improving healthy life expectancy, write Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard and James O’Shaughnessy.
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HSJ LocalAcute trust appoints new CEO
An acute trust in the North East has appointed a new chief executive.
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NewsBarclay orders ICSs to publish ‘organograms’ by 6 January
The health secretary has told integrated care systems to publish a breakdown of staffing numbers and costs so the “public and those on the frontline understand how money is spent”.
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CommentNHS and social care need to learn from each other
The fifth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Former NHS manager Nichola Stefanou shares three main takeaway lessons from her experience of working across both health and social care
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CommentNHS leadership should be the role model for social care
The fourth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. The gulf between healthcare and social care is exemplified by the fact that social care is devolved to councils to administer says author Andrew Johnston