All Acute care articles – Page 23
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LeaderThe stubbornness of covid leaves the NHS with brutal choices to make
In the last six months of 2021, just over 5,000 people who tested positive for covid were admitted to English hospitals each week on average.
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NewsExclusive: Drive to reduce hospital waiting lists endangered as trusts struggle to raise activity
Elective activity levels are still significantly below those achieved before the pandemic, despite the high profile and government-led drive to recover services.
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NewsCovid hospital patients double in a month
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals more than doubled in June.
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NewsClinician appointed hospital’s new chief executive
A new chief executive has been appointed to one of England’s largest hospitals
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NewsCovid-positive hospital patients rise a quarter in one week
The number of patients in English hospitals who have tested positive for covid has increased 28 per cent in a week, the steepest rise since mid-March
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NewsA&E promoted from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’
The Care Quality Commission has improved the rating of a long-struggling A&E from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’, as part of a system-wide inspection of urgent and emergency services
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News‘Shift to untrained staff’ leaves over half stroke units with too few nurses
Fewer than half of stroke units in England have the recommended number of trained nurses — a drop of 10 percentage points in two years, a report has warned.
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HSJ PartnersHow can the NHS best manage waiting times for colonoscopy: watch the video
Ed Seward, consultant gastroenterologist and director of endoscopy at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust, considers how the NHS might best manage waiting times for colonoscopy
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NewsGovernment to pick ‘integration frontrunners’ to test ‘radical new approaches’
Government will pick five or six ‘integration frontrunner’ areas ‘to lead the way in developing and testing radical new approaches’ to speeding up discharge from acute hospitals.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in April 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsThird 2022 covid wave will cause less hospitalisation, predicts Powis
NHS England medical director Sir Steve Powis has told HSJ he expects fewer admissions during the new covid wave than the two previous 2022 surges.
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HSJ LocalRetiring CEO: Other industries would think how we chair boards is mad
The outgoing CEO of an acute trust has called for better support for healthcare leaders, particularly when it comes to the relationship between chiefs and chairs, as she prepares to retire.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: 12 great expectations
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsNHS England reviewing bed capacity
The NHS has a low bed base, and NHS England is reviewing ‘how we right-size our capacity’ across hospital, community and ‘virtual’ services, Amanda Pritchard has said.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief: Manager ‘bootcamps’ helped eliminate two-year waiters
The chief executive of one of the first teaching trusts in the country to have eliminated two-year waiters for elective care has said there is ‘no magic to it’ and it can be replicated elsewhere.
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NewsNorth West surge accelerates covid admissions rise
The number of patients admitted to hospital who test positive for covid is rising exponentially once more, with all seven English regions showing significant increases.
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NewsCovid admissions on the rise again, but ‘incidental’ cases predominate
The number of patients with covid admitted to hospital rose in the seven days to 7 June – although the proportion being treated ’primarily’ for the condition dropped to a record low, official data suggests.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts hit hardest by covid
Revealing the hospital trusts hit hardest through the pandemic so far, and what their chief executives want to be learned from the experience.
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NewsCEOs of covid-ravaged trusts call for more action on shared waiting lists
Coordination of waiting lists and elective treatment across health systems and regions should be ‘far more systematic’, and could have happened earlier, chief executives of some of the hardest hit trusts have told HSJ.
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NewsMajor trust reports huge jump in two-year waiters, against national reduction
A large NHS trust has reported a huge jump in patients waiting more than two years for elective treatment, bucking the national trend which shows numbers reducing.