All Acute care articles – Page 12
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News
New NHSE director to oversee 'challenged' trusts
NHS England has hired a senior director from Health Education England to lead its work with particularly struggling trusts and systems.
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News
Struggling trusts’ CEOs must ‘self certify’ to NHS England
Bosses at struggling trusts must sign new commitments to national leaders about how they are approaching the task of clearing their elective and cancer backlogs, under a new protocol drawn up by NHS England.
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HSJ Local
Trust criticised over handling of 60-hour A&E waits
Senior staff have questioned why a major hospital did not seek support from neighbours when emergency patients were left waiting more than 60 hours to be admitted to a bed.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Initiative of the Year
WINNER Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT: The Recognise and Respond Team - Optimising Care, Supporting Excellence
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: New lows for ambulance handover crisis
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Number of covid positive hospital patients stops rising
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals has stopped rising after 30 days.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: main hospital corridor turned into ‘makeshift ward’
The main corridor of an acute hospital has been closed to patients and staff and turned into a ‘makeshift ward’, in what sources describe as an ‘absolutely unprecedented’ situation.
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News
Trusts need hundreds of millions to stop hospitals’ roofs collapsing
Trusts need hundreds of millions of pounds to remediate dangerous roofs.
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HSJ Local
‘Relationship breakdown’ between councils and NHS trust
Relationships are said to have broken down between councils and a trust which has just come out of critical incident status amid extreme pressures.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Devo leaders jump on life expectancy findings
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Covid positive hospital patients double in a fortnight
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals has increased by 4,745 over the last two weeks as the fourth wave of 2022 continues to surge.
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News
Exclusive: Patients declining two dates could be struck from waiting lists
Patients face being removed from the NHS waiting list if they decline two dates offered to them for their treatment, new internal guidance seen by HSJ reveals.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Could NHSE ‘throw in the towel’?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
Dozens of trusts still not sharing single pathology service
One in three pathology networks are still running testing services independently at trust level, despite having been asked to consolidate the services five years ago, new figures reveal.
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Growth in covid hospital admissions equalling January surge
The growth in the number of hospital patients who test positive for covid is rising as steeply as during the January wave.
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HSJ Partners
Elective care recovery: A shared endeavour
Todd Manning, vice president and general manager at AbbVie UK reflects on why elective care recovery is being considered a shared challenge
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HSJ Partners
New evidence for an integrated virtual ward approach
Paul McGinness, chief executive, Lenus Health, presents new evidence showing how a digital service model can reduce respiratory-related hospital admissions and enable care at home
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Therese’s NHS short-term plan
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
Fourth covid wave of 2022 picks up speed
The number of people admitted to hospital who test positive for covid is rising once more in every English region after two months of decline.
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News
BMA ‘acting like football agents’ inflating extra shift pay, say trust chiefs
A row has broken out between trust bosses and the British Medical Association over the doctors’ union’s campaign to drive up consultants’ hourly pay rates for extra shifts, HSJ has learned.