All Acute care articles – Page 101
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NewsTrusts miss NHS England A&E performance milestone
Trusts have fallen short of NHS England’s first milestone towards hitting the national emergency performance waiting time target, official figures reveal today.
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HSJ LocalCQC and police investigate trust after patient death
The Care Quality Commission is expected to visit a Brighton hospital today following the death of an elderly inpatient, who is believed to have swallowed cleaning fluid.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: New chief executive for trust with worst A&E in the country
The chief executive of Dartford and Gravesham Trust is to take on the leadership one of the NHS’s most challenged providers.
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HSJ LocalTrust in special measures appoints new chair
England’s only fully integrated health trust, which is in special measures, has promoted one of its non-executive directors to chair of the organisation.
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HSJ LocalDevon trusts to share staff across region
Medical staff will work across trusts in a success regime region under a new system devised by health chiefs to reduce pressure on struggling services.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Pioneering trust partnership names joint exec team
A hospital and mental health trust have confirmed their joint board and management structure, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrusts confirm new shared chief executive
An acute trust and a mental health and community trust have appointed a joint chief executive after forming an alliance to make services more integrated.
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HSJ LocalSpecialist emergency trust's A&E rated inadequate
One of Greater Manchester’s four ‘specialist’ emergency hospitals has had its urgent and emergency care services rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalTrust suspends spinal surgery after two deaths
An acute trust in the North West has suspended its spinal surgery services after four serious incidents – including two patient deaths – were identified over a six month period.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Consultant backlash over patient record system 'disaster'
Outcry from dozens of senior consultants has forced one of the country’s largest teaching hospitals to review its £14m digital patient record system amid fears over patient safety.
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HSJ LocalWorst performing A&E trust appoints new interim chair
The chair of a trust struggling with accident and emergency performance is stepping down, just weeks after the chief executive resigned.
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NewsExclusive: Trust bosses call on government to confirm sustainability cash beyond 2019
NHS trust leaders have called on the government to protect the £1.8bn sustainability fund beyond 2018-19, but say it should not be channelled into commissioning allocations until problems with the national tariff are addressed.
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NewsCQC issues list of A&E safety inspection targets
The Care Quality Commission has set out the eight major priority areas which will underpin its regulation of urgent and emergency care providers this winter
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NewsExclusive: Government threatens to intervene over DTOCs performance
Ministers are set to issue a fresh warning to councils deemed to have made insufficient progress tackling delayed transfers of care, amid a bitter row over the withholding of funding.
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HSJ Local
CCGs find no link between GP hours and A&E attendance
Two Nottinghamshire clinical commissioning groups, which also lead a national vanguard, have found there is no direct link between extended GP opening hours and accident and emergency attendances.
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NewsRoundtable: The war on variation could cause 'stagnation'
The NHS’s drive to instil best practice across the service risks suppressing innovation, experts heard at HSJ’s latest event
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NewsStevens: NHS will be forced to open extra beds if DTOCs aren't cut
The NHS will have to open more beds – but would struggle to staff them – if there are not sufficient reductions in delayed transfers of care ahead of winter, Simon Stevens has said.
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HSJ LocalTrust warned by regulator over 'oppressive' culture
A trust in the West Midlands has been issued with enforcement action by the Care Quality Commission following concerns about an “oppressive” culture in its maternity department.
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HSJ LocalSmallest hospital trust moves closer to downgrade and merger
England’s smallest acute trust has moved a step closer to downgrading its emergency services, with the publication of proposals for “a new community focused role… at the heart of the new model of care”.
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NewsConsultant shortages mean sepsis standards 'unachievable'
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has clarified its latest advice on sepsis after warnings that a shortage of consultants makes the standards “unachievable”.