All Acute care articles – Page 169
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SupplementsGood practice case study: specialist care for confused older patients
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust set up a specialist unit so patients with delirium would not have to be treated in noisy and crowded wards
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SupplementsGood practice case study: improved flow through faster discharge
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust brings discharge duties home when needed for timely service delivery.
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SupplementsGood practice case study: rehabilitation and older patients
NHS Lanarkshire trains nursing teams from acute hospital wards in older patient rehabilitation and enablement
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NewsFrail older care in hospital 'fragmented', experts warn
Health leaders and patient advocates have welcomed the findings of the HSJ/Serco commission while warning that frail older people were not well managed by “fragmented” healthcare regimes.
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SupplementsCommission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People: main report
Download HSJ’s landmark report
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SupplementsHSJ Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People: good practice case studies
Learn from these examples of good practice from around the NHS
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NewsIntegration will not save money, HSJ commission concludes
Political leaders’ belief that health and social care integration is the “silver bullet” for the NHS’s financial difficulties is a “myth” and “Messiah concept” that has no realistic prospect of success.
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NewsLack of leadership limiting improvements in elderly care, commission finds
A lack of leadership is limiting the ability of hospitals to provide “best in class care” to elderly patients, with too much variation across providers according to the HSJ Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe future for specialists is beyond a hospital’s four walls
Specialists can support and train GPs and nurses
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CommentColchester is yet to turn the corner but feelings are mixed
Pressures of austerity collide with transparency
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NewsExclusive: Hinchingbrooke A&E could face axe
The NHS’s only privately run hospital, Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, could lose core services such as its accident and emergency department despite earlier assurances that franchising the hospital would protect it from such a move.
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NewsExclusive: Delayed transfer rate soars to highest level
The national rate of delayed transfers of care has soared to its highest ever level, threatening the better care fund’s ambition to cut costs by improving the transfer of patients from hospital to other care settings.
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CommentHealthcare will inevitably become more expensive
As the economy grows, so will the costs of running the NHS
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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
The NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together
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NewsAccident and emergency bailout fund increases to £700m
Hospitals are to receive an extra £300m in government cash in a bid to arrest further decline in A&E performance over the winter
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HSJ KnowledgeOut of bed and back home: improving acute elderly care
How new care pathways cut hospital stays
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CommentTalking dirty to the public
Being honest about NHS reform is a political taboo worth breaking
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NewsThree more trusts impose out of area referral restrictions
Three further trusts have imposed controversial curbs on patient access to services by restricting referrals from outside of their catchment areas
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NewsHospital chief executive steps down after regulatory action
The chief executive of a large Midlands hospital trust has announced he is stepping down