All Acute care articles – Page 228
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NewsNineteen trusts will have less than a year to become FTs
The NHS Trust Development Authority has conceded that more than a third of the organisations which intend to become standalone foundation trusts will not have submitted their applications to it by April.
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CommentHealth and health services: the next 20 years
The winning Finnamore F20 essay on the future of healthcare
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SupplementsRewriting the script - pharmacy roundtable special report
In autumn last year, a group of pharmacy experts gathered in London to discuss how specialist pharmacy services could evolve to benefit patients, NHS organisations and the NHS as a whole – and what role the private sector could play in this.
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NewsHospital trusts lack 'top drawer' leaders
The NHS’s ability to make significant savings over the next two years through service change could be limited by its problems recruiting “top drawer” hospital leaders, the health service’s chief executive has suggested.
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NewsCommissioning board specialised service move 'could destabilise small trusts'
The national standardisation of specialised services could prompt a wave of reconfiguration and destabilise smaller trusts, it has been claimed.
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NewsHunt: NHS 'should go' paperless by 2018
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced the NHS “should go paperless” by 2018 as he outlined his digital records vision for the health service.
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NewsCommissioners have rationed cataract surgery on inferior evidence, Keogh admits
Around half of all primary care trusts have restricted access to cataract surgery, with the majority basing their decisions on inferior clinical evidence, the medical director of the NHS has told MPs.
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NewsHospital chief executive role for Matthew Kershaw
Matthew Kershaw, who has lead the failure regime process at South London Healthcare Trust, is to take up a chief executive post at a large teaching hospital in the Spring.
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NewsTrust failed to check paediatric staff criminal records for three years
Managers at Barts and the London Trust were unable to guarantee paediatric staff had passed Criminal Records Bureau checks for three years, following a series of human resources failings, HSJ has learned.
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CommentFree from the dead hand of Connecting for Health
“We need to link the technology to see the benefits people want”
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Blogs
One-year-waiters: real patients or data errors?
The dramatic reduction in one-year-waiters was more down to validation than treating real patients. But it’s essential nonetheless: there were still plenty of real patients there.
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NewsTrust found to have altered waiting times figures
A large hospital trust has been caught altering waiting time figures to avoid breaches of the four-hour accident and emergency target.
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NewsNicholson: leading hospitals to be reshaped by commissioning board
The board will use its position as “a big, powerful commissioner” to reshape England’s largest teaching and specialist hospitals, says Sir David Nicholson.
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NewsEpsom hospital pulled into A&E reconfiguration programme
Another hospital has been added to the list of those on the south west London and Surrey borders that could lose their accident and emergency and maternity facilities, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeNeighbourhood watch could prevent another tragedy
Could the peer review model be adopted around the NHS?
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Chief executive resigns at Midlands trust
The chief executive of University Hospital of North Staffordshire Trust has resigned after six years in the post.
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NewsMPs call for urgent 'overhaul' of CQC governance
The chair of the health select committee has described it as “extraordinary” the Care Quality Commission is still not clear about its core purpose, five years after it was set up.
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HSJ KnowledgeCreate a culture of 'psychological safety'
Trust, collaboration and dedication are essential to improving care
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NewsNorovirus cases increase by 72pc
Around 100,000 people were struck down with the winter vomiting bug over Christmas, latest figures suggested as it emerged the number of confirmed cases was 72 per cent higher than this time last year.