All Acute care articles – Page 225
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CommentCo-payments undermine the NHS's claim to be 'free'
NHS care is not “free at the point of delivery” for patients’ relatives
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NewsAnalysis: Francis calls for deceleration of drive towards all-FT NHS
Robert Francis QC has called for a further deceleration of the drive for all NHS providers to become foundation trusts, in order to ensure trusts completing the process are safe.
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NewsChild 999 admissions continue to rise
The number of children admitted to English hospitals as emergencies has increased every year since 2003, researchers have found.
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News
Foreign patients lucrative for NHS
Foreign patients who seek private treatment in the UK are a lucrative source of income for the NHS, research has found.
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CommentMichael White: Life, fate and the Francis legacy
There are echoes of Stalin’s deadly regime in the culture that blighted Mid Staffordshire
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NewsNine more trusts face Keogh death probe
The scope of the NHS medical director’s review of hospitals with high mortality rates has widened to include another nine trusts, it has been announced.
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NewsCalls for action to tackle sharp rise in emergency readmissions
Campaigners have called for renewed efforts to tackle inappropriate discharges after new analysis found the number of elderly patients requiring emergency readmission to hospital had nearly doubled in the past decade.
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NewsCircle chief places emphasis on consolidation
Healthcare operator Circle has said the timing of NHS contracts and the current debt financing environment may delay the expansion plans it outlined last year.
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NewsHunt: Managers and clinicians should be 'struck off' over Mid Staffs scandal
The managers and clinicians responsible for poor care that led to hundreds of deaths in the Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal should be struck off, the health secretary has said.
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HSJ Local
NHS Lincolnshire considers future of Grantham Hospital
STRUCTURE: NHS Lincolnshire has opened a 90-day consultation on future services to be provided at Grantham Hospital.
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Good nurses should be rewarded with more pay says Francis
Nurses who “demonstrate a commitment to patient care” could receive more pay under recommendations made by Robert Francis QC.
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Blogs
'18-weeks' penalties change again: this time it's good
At last: instead of punishing hospitals for treating their long-waiters, the latest NHS Contract prevents long-wait backlogs from building up in the first place.
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NewsLabour MP calls for moratorium on A&E closures
A Labour MP has called on ministers to impose a moratorium on closures of hospital emergency departments until the NHS Commissioning Board’s national review on the subject has been carried out.
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CommentWe urgently need to reimagine healthcare
We need the service to deliver health and social care
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CommentWhy using digital data will drive up care quality
Once you digitise the data, you can reinvent healthcare
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NewsFrancis highlights problems with 'culture' and targets
Robert Francis QC has criticised elements of the “culture” of the NHS and Department of Health, including overly tough performance management.
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NewsFrancis: NICE should draw up safe staffing levels
Minimum safe staffing levels should be drawn up by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and policed by the Care Quality Commission, according to the Francis report.
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News'Plethora' of NHS bodies and regulators failed to act on warning signs
A “plethora” of agencies, commissioners, regulators and professional bodies failed for years to act on warning signs which should have alerted the NHS system to serious failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, the Francis report has concluded.
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NewsObama adviser to make ‘zero harm in the NHS a reality’, pledges PM
Don Berwick, the man who advised President Barack Obama on his health reforms, has been appointed to spearhead a “zero harm” agenda in the NHS, David Cameron has revealed.
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NewsFrancis response: ‘immediate’ probe ordered into hospitals with high death rates
The NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh is to investigate trusts with high death rates “and check remedial action is being taken”, the prime minister has told Parliament.