All Acute care articles – Page 175
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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
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NewsPrimary care 'in foothills' of modernisation, says NHS England director
Primary care has only reached the ‘foothills’ of transformation, Mike Bewick has said during an interview in which he predicts a “steeper fall” in the number of individual GP practices
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NewsBewick: Up-skilled GPs should support emergency and acute services
Emergency and acute services in some areas could increasingly be supported by up-skilled GPs, working across hospital and community settings, NHS England’s deputy medical director has said
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HSJ Local18 week waits, September 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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HSJ LocalAddenbrooke's A&E performance slumps to record low
Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust has recorded the worst weekly accident and emergency waiting time performance by any NHS provider for three and half years, a statistician has calculated.
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CommentAnalysis: Pressure eases on English waiting times
Waiting times recovered surprisingly well in September
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HSJ Local
Kent organisations step in to relieve pressure on Medway
STRUCTURE: Medway Foundation Trust could see some of its work moved to a neighbouring trust to relieve pressure on the struggling organisation.
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NewsNHS bailouts under fire in 'deeply alarming' NAO study
Government bailouts for financially troubled hospitals have come under fire in a report laying bare the deteriorating financial state of the NHS
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NewsWaiting list shrinks slightly amid government drive to treat long waiters
The government’s drive to help hospitals clear their backlog of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment has started to pay off, figures from NHS England indicate
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NewsSenior DH official: trusts ‘need’ IT directors at board level
Hospital trusts ‘need’ chief information officers on their boards and should treat IT as a leadership function instead of a back office one, Will Cavendish has said
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NewsPlans to involve GPs in NHS 111 'naive'
NHS England has ‘lost’ time exploring the use of GPs for the NHS 111 phone line as there are too few in the workforce to support it, a leading clinician has said
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NewsRenewed calls for CCGs to join hospital inspections
A clinical commissioning group leader has renewed calls for CCGs to be given a role in hospital inspections after it emerged an NHS England official had led one in London
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NewsExclusive: Stevens warns leaders that funding increase will depend on A&E performance
Senior NHS chiefs have begun ramping up the pressure on providers and commissioners to improve performance in A&E during a round of high level meetings which began last week