All Acute care articles – Page 185
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Comment'England is stuck with complex and perverse waiting times targets'
The government won’t fix this system
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NewsExclusive: Post-Francis recruitment surge welcomed by minister
Exclusive: The recent and continuing surge in new NHS posts for nursing and other frontline roles has been welcomed by health minister Dan Poulter as the “right thing to do” in response to the Mid-Staffordshire scandal.
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NewsSpecialist hospitals fear NHS England centralisation plans
Specialist hospitals have urged NHS England to re-think its “one-size-fits-all” approach to centralising specialised acute services because it puts their independence at risk.
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NewsExclusive: Later arrival at hospital means staying for days longer, analysis shows
Being admitted to hospital a few hours later in the day often means patients spending several days longer on wards, according to new analysis shared with HSJ.
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HSJ KnowledgeThat’ll be the day: make Change Day a platform for transformation
Learning lessons from NHS Change Day
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NewsStevens sets out alternative approach to small hospitals
Merger or closure of small hospitals might not be the best way forward for an already “centralised” English NHS
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HSJ PartnersHow to keep terminally ill people out of hospital: what you said
Providing more care at home
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NewsMid Staffs fined over 'avoidable' death
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been fined £200,000 for the “wholly avoidable” death of a diabetic patient.
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HSJ KnowledgeCare in the community: is the rhetoric wrong?
Find ways to support people where it matters
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SupplementsDesign of the times – an HSJ healthcare design and build supplement
Why standardisation is good for comfort as well as coffers
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat you need to know about the first emergency-only hospital
The idea of major emergency care hospitals is not new, but it is definitely a shift for the NHS
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HSJ Local18 week waits, February 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waits around England, with links to the detail by organisation and specialty
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegration: the future of liaison psychiatry
One trust took radical steps to join up care
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CommentLiberation, preparation and participation: why foundation status matters more than ever
Gill Morgan and Chris Hopson respond to HSJ’s editor
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NewsData video: A&E performance 2013-14 analysed
HSJ reporter Sophie Barnes talks about English A&E departments’ performance, with emergency admissions at major A&E units at their highest level in a decade
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CommentFebruary waits: England breaches 18 weeks, in a good way
Target missed for first time in years
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NewsMid Staffs dissolution deferred by six months
Scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust will remain in business until at least October despite the regulator’s desire to dissolve the organisation “as soon as possible”, HSJ can reveal.