South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 361
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HSJ Partners
Improving the flow of bariatric/metabolic surgery
An expert panel explored the need for professional education as well as raising awareness of the benefits that bariatric/metabolic surgery can bring for suitable patients
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News
Exclusive: NHS in London asked to plan for ‘possible covid surge later in 2021’
The NHS’s London regional team has told its integrated care systems to draw up plans for ‘another possible [covid-19] surge later in 2021’, HSJ has learned.
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News
Daily Insight: Storm over Morecambe Bay
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Integrated care systems to be CQC-rated, says Hancock
Health secretary Matt Hancock has said integrated care systems will be rated by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ Local
Controversial service closures to be reversed
Trusts in north central London will begin unpicking the temporary reorganisation of their paediatric inpatient and emergency services from April, provided the pressure of the covid pandemic has eased sufficiently.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: ‘A culture of risk taking’
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Comment
Covid has proved the value of analytics but will the NHS learn the lesson?
Covid-19 has brought to the fore the value of analytics. With an end to the pandemic in sight, and reform on the way, Richard Wood asks whether healthcare systems can seize the opportunity to embed this change within business-as-usual practices.
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News
NHS starts digital transformation of high-volume specialty
The NHS has taken its first step towards redesigning ophthalmology care pathways, which includes better connecting primary and secondary care, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
NHSE overrules trust and orders second review into patient harms
NHS England has ordered an independent review into patient safety and governance concerns at an acute trust which had been resisting calls to take this step, HSJ has learned.
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News
Trust with ‘suffocating prohibition on speaking plainly’ loses case against senior manager
A tribunal has ruled a senior manager with a ‘blemish-free’ record was unfairly sacked, with the judge raising concerns about the trust’s ‘policing of language’.
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News
Daily Insight: Backed up to the future
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Five trusts still have a fifth of beds filled by covid patients
Five hospital trusts still have at least a fifth of their general and acute beds occupied by covid patients, HSJ analysis suggests.
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HSJ Interactive
How the NHS can get back on track after covid?
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell was joined by two leading commentators to look at how the NHS can recover after covid in an HSJ webinar. Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, and Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, examined the mountain the NHS has to climb ...
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News
Concerns raised over link between CQC ratings and ethnicity
The Royal College of GPs has called for an independent review of the link between poor Care Quality Commission inspection ratings and the ethnicity of GP partners.
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Comment
Engagement in global healthcare challenges will help retain NHS staff
Ben Simms on the growing need of collaborative working among countries in the field of health care.
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News
Admissions and numbers of covid inpatients falling at record rate
Covid admissions to English hospitals, and the number of covid patients being cared for in them, is falling at the fastest rate yet since the mid-January peak, suggesting the vaccination programme is beginning to have an impact.
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Comment
Without urgent action the UK could slip further behind in tackling cancer
Michelle Mitchell emphasises on adoptive commitments for tackling cancer inequalities, clearing backlog of diagnostic waits and stopping cancer survival from going backwards
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News
Suicide inquest sparks warning on 'nine month wait' for treatment
The government has been called on to take action over the national “backlog” for a specialist mental health service after a woman died while waiting to access treatment.
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News
NHS may ‘never catch up’ with surgery backlog caused by covid
Delays due to the covid-19 crisis have created tens of thousands of year-long waiters for ophthalmology treatment, and a surgery backlog which experts say may never be recovered.
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Comment
NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation must be 're-unified'
Oxford Health Foundation Trust chair David Walker on the reunification of NHS Providers and NHS Confederation to avoid duplication and non-effectiveness