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  • News

    Medical director appointed for London

    2009-02-25T11:14:00Z

    A London-wide medical director has been appointed.Andy Mitchell will be a director of NHS London and the London Clinical and Business Support Agency, or hub.

  • News

    London mental health chief executives reshuffle

    2009-02-25T11:00:00Z

    North East London foundation trust chief executive Judy Wilson has become interim chief at South West London and St George's mental health trust.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Developing NHS leaders: inspiring times

    2009-02-23T09:00:00Z

    HR Expert Chris Roebuck tells Louise Hunt developing potential NHS leaders is not a luxury but integral to high quality care

  • Supplements

    Round table: will the penny drop for clinical managers?

    2009-02-19T07:00:00Z

    Patient level costing may be the lure that attracts clinicians into management. Daloni Carlisle listens in on a discussion between some of the most influential policy makers, managers and medical leaders

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on NHS lessons from the circus

    2009-02-19T07:00:00Z

    At a recent dinner I found myself sitting next to the worldwide chief operating officer of Cirque du Soleil.

  • News

    Dementia strategy: high hopes but who will pay?

    2009-02-19T07:00:00Z

    The dementia strategy promises dedicated memory services in every town, but with only £150m over two years can primary care trusts afford the sophisticated teams this requires? Charlotte Santry reports

  • News

    'Remarkable' PCT beats crisis

    2009-02-19T07:00:00Z

    The recovery of a primary care trust dogged by financial and performance failings has been dubbed 'remarkable'.Brent PCT was criticised for an 'arrogant and isolated' approach, 'serious failings' of corporate governance, 'very poor' financial oversight and creating a 'schism' between itself and its GPs, in a report published last year.

  • News

    Half of patients may not get lifesaving care

    2009-02-19T07:00:00Z

    Differences in medical opinion mean some critically ill patients have just a 50 per cent chance of lifesaving emergency treatment, despite being likely to survive if they receive it.

  • News

    Unions confront Care Quality Commission over jobs

    2009-02-19T07:00:00Z

    The Care Quality Commission is heading for clashes with unions before it has even launched.With just over a month until the commission absorbs the three health and social care watchdogs, around 300 staff are still in the dark about their fate.

  • News

    Ruth Carnall rejects Stalinist jibe after chiefs resign

    2009-02-19T07:00:00Z

    An article in last week's HSJ following the resignation of two London trust chief executives gave 'false comfort' to 'people who seek to excuse poor performance rather than rise to the challenges', NHS London chief executive Ruth Carnall has said.

  • News

    Sussex merger trusts appoint Marianne Griffiths as chief executive

    2009-02-17T10:49:00Z

    A chief executive has been appointed to the merged trust proposed by Royal West Sussex and Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trusts.

  • Comment

    Ali Mohammed on HR best practice

    2009-02-16T09:00:00Z

    I have a bad headache. For someone who, touch wood, is never really ill and hasn't taken time off work for sickness in the last 20 years, this is unusual.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Using 360 degree feedback in the NHS

    2009-02-16T09:00:00Z

    Used properly, 360 degree feedback can be a powerful tool for improvement. Madeleine Owen looks at how to make the results stick

  • Comment

    Robina Shah on the beginnings of Board Talk

    2009-02-16T09:00:00Z

    Board Talk will be celebrating its first year soon and I felt it was important to reflect on how it all started and where it is now.

  • News

    St George's Healthcare trust appoints chief operating officer

    2009-02-12T10:35:00Z

    Patrick Mitchell has been appointed chief operating officer at St George's Healthcare trust in south London.

  • Leader

    SHAs must not resurrect Stalin as a solution to their problems

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    Three questions of vital importance to NHS managers collide in this week's HSJ - what should happen to trusts with little hope of achieving foundation status, what should happen to chief executives who are struggling to deliver, and what is the right relationship between a strategic health authority and its ...

  • News

    Rose Gibb and the £250k question

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    When Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust directors decided to arrange a pay-off for Rose Gibb they did not realise they were walking into a legal minefield. What lessons does the case hold? Alison Moore reports

  • News

    NHS medics and managers agree over training gap

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    Managers and clinicians are calling for clinical training programmes to give doctors a better understanding of finance and resource management in the NHS.

  • News

    DH promises to pay Maidstone legal bill

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has agreed to underwrite the massive legal bill Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust could face if Rose Gibb wins her controversial court case.

  • Community

    Media Watch: maternity services

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    The Conservatives have been keeping up the pressure over maternity services - with stories in both broadsheets and tabloids saying the NHS has been forced to turn away women in labour.