All Acute care articles – Page 161
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HSJ LocalCMA to investigate Surrey trusts' merger plan
The proposed merger between two trusts in Surrey has hit a stumbling block after the Competition and Markets Authority said the merger could have ‘adverse effects’ for patients and it has launched an investigation.
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NewsTrusts surpass 100,000 extra elective treatments target
Trusts have gone beyond the government target to treat 100,000 extra patients waiting over 16 weeks for treatment.
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NewsGovernment ups pressure to bring down waiting list
Government focus has moved from accident and emergency performance to the NHS’s 3.2 million elective waiting list, senior trust sector sources have told HSJ.
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Acute trusts mull marginal tariff complaint against CCGs
A number of acute trusts are considering launching an official complaint against their local clinical commissioning groups because of the way in which they have spent money designed to reduce emergency admissions.
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HSJ PartnersThree steps to better care for the terminally ill
The electorate wants to ease the burden on A&E – and it is achievable
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HSJ Local
UHNM launches partnership with GP surgery
University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust has launched a partnership with local GP surgery Nantwich Health Centre for plastic surgery, gynaecology and neurology patients in south Cheshire.
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A&E consultants resign en masse from trust
Five accident and emergency consultants have resigned from a troubled West Midlands acute trust across two hospitals, including all four consultants from one department.
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HSJ LocalSheffield organisations pitch £260m 'vanguard' care plan
STRUCTURE: Health and care organisations have agreed to pool £260m to redesign and commission services together in their application to become a “vanguard site” for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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Harrogate highlights maternity staffing problem
WORKFORCE: Vacancies and sickness meant that only about half of planned support worker hours were filled in the delivery room at Harrogate and District Hospitals Foundation Trust in December.
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Airedale FT opens new A&E department
STRUCTURE: New £6.4 million emergency department will improve privacy and bring dignity for vulnerable older patients, the foundation trust’s chief executive says.
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NewsNational fund needed to address paramedic shortage, says ambulance chief
An ambulance trust chief executive has warned that the lack of a national funding scheme for training paramedics could only exacerbate workforce shortages if it is not tackled.
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NewsMidlands paramedic sentenced after hospital death
A West Midlands paramedic has been handed an eight month suspended sentence after failing to examine and start resuscitation on a man who collapsed outside a hospital emergency department.
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NewsExclusive: Medical examiners help expose patient safety risks
Medical examiners working in pilot areas in England have exposed clinical incidents, poor staffing and fatal infections that have led to deaths on hospital wards, according to research shared with HSJ.
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HSJ KnowledgeTrust chiefs speak: How to tackle winter pressures and election turbulence
2015 is set to be a turbulent year for the hospital sector, especially as the NHS looks likely to be the battleground for the election. Richard Vize speaks to trust chief executives about their plan of attack
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NewsGovernment to study 'feasibility' of out of hospital avoidable death rates
The government will fund a national study into avoidable deaths in out of hospital settings to gauge the ‘feasibility’ of developing ‘locally attributable’ death rates.
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NewsTrusts should employ whistleblower ‘guardians’, Francis says
Sir Robert Francis QC has called for every NHS organisation to employ a full time officer to act in an ‘independent capacity’ to hear whistleblowers’ concerns and raise them at board level, as part of his review into creating an open culture in the NHS.
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HSJ LocalStafford Hospital inpatient surgery transferred
Surgical services and procedures requiring overnight inpatient stays have been transferred from the former Stafford Hospital to Royal Stoke University Hospital and Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
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NewsLords 'dismay' over fast tracked avoidable harm bill
Members of the House of Lords have accused civil servants of trying to ‘short circuit’ the parliamentary process to pass a law on avoidable harm.
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NewsHunt's plans for local avoidable death estimates ‘meaningless’
Plans outlined by Jeremy Hunt to calculate the number of avoidable deaths for individual hospitals ‘wouldn’t have any meaning’, according to the expert whose research the idea is based on.