The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Prescribing Guidelines, 9th Edition

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLAM BRC) case register: development and descriptive data

BACKGROUND Case registers have been used extensively in mental health research. Recent developments in electronic medical records, and in computer software to search and analyse these in anonymised format, have the potential to revolutionise this research tool. METHODS We describe the development of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Cas...

Abdi Sanati ( Consultant Psychiatrist , North East London NHS Foundation Trust )

Welcome to the winter 2014 edition of the philosophy SIG newsletter, in which we have the privilege of a contribution by Dr Helen Spandler. As an expert in sociology of mental health, she has provided an insight into the work of Peter Sedgwick (pictured above). In Psychopolitics, Sedgwick predicted the use of anti-psychiatry’s rhetoric by right-wing governments’ in reducing the mental health se...

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust

1. A recurrently balanced financial plan for 2012/13 which maintains the £6.7m planned surplus from previous years. 2. The major risk relates to delivery of the necessary efficiency savings to meet the National Efficiency Target and to address underlying Directorate deficits brought-forward from 2011/12. 3. 2012/13 Patient Services contracts are broadly agreed, although there remain some risks ...

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust

1. Considerable focus has been applied over the last 9 months or so to further develop the Trust’s architecture and infrastructure for the Efficiency Programme. 2. The 2012/13 Efficiency Plan shows the potential to deliver significant savings but there are significant risks to delivery. 3. The key risks are operational, particularly reducing length of stay and avoiding delayed discharges and me...