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Chief executive of Whittington Health, Dr Yi Mien Koh, explains to Jessica Fuhl that the biggest challenge to integration and efficiency is getting staff on board Whittington Health has ambitions plans for the future. It hopes to achieve foundation trust status by 2014 and its first step to ensure it made sufficient efficiency savings in order to do so was to fully integrate local community services with the hospital last year. In January it had reached 98% of its cost improvement programme (CIP) target for the financial year as a result. The integrated health organisation is a merger of the formerly...

The author of recent social media guidance for the Nursing and Midwifery Council says that NHS line managers need to be able to better respond to abuse by staff The author of recent guidance on using social media for nurses and midwives says NHS managers should be able to actively respond to issues around how their staff use social media. Andy Jaegar, assistant director of public and professional communications at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and author of recent guidance on social media , says that NHS managers must be better equipped to handle issues around social media. The regulator...

British Medical Association issues guidance to warn doctors and medical students about the dangers of getting too close to patients through social media Doctors are should not accept Facebook requests from current and former patients and should consider adopting "conservative privacy settings" where possible, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said. In new guidance titled 'Using social media: practical and ethical guidance for doctors and medical students', the BMA explains that problems can occur if the boundaries of the doctor-patient relationship become blurred. The...