All Acute care articles – Page 256
-
NewsNorovirus 'within expected levels'
The number of NHS beds closed due to norovirus-type symptoms has doubled within a week but is still within expected levels, the government has said.
-
NewsQIPP progress revealed after DH publishes cash savings
The NHS saved around £2.5bn in the first half of this financial year, or 42 per cent of its target for the year, the Department of Health reported today.
-
NewsOutpatient appointments increase by 4.5pc
The number of outpatient appointments increased by 4.5 per cent last year, according to NHS Information Centre figures.
-
NewsNursing care standards report unveiled
A report by Birmingham University’s Health Services Management Centre has urged for senior nurses to be given greater leadership responsibility in order to improve acute nursing care standards.
-
NewsHospital closure plan rejected by health secretary
Scotland’s health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has rejected an NHS board’s recommendation to close a hospital.
-
NewsMet police drive demand for ambulances
Ambulances are being despatched unnecessarily tens of thousands of times a year at the request of police officers in London, a new report has found.
-
NewsPrince Charles praises trusts for hospital food improvement
The food hospital patients are given “should help rather than hinder recovery”, the Prince of Wales said yesterday at a reception to celebrate trusts that have improved the quality of their catering.
-
NewsScottish hospital's infection control praised
A children’s hospital has been praised for work to protect patients, staff and visitors from the risk of infection.
-
News
CCP rules against largest acute merger plan in the country
The Cooperation and Competition Panel has said plans to create the biggest single trust in the NHS would break competition rules.
-
NewsHospital infection control procedures criticised
Standard procedures to prevent the spread of infections were not implemented “consistently” in two-thirds of Scottish hospitals and NHS services inspected in the past year, a report shows today.
-
NewsNHS trust sector in England 'heading towards deficit'
The NHS trust sector could be “heading for deficit” in 2011-12. Health economists made the warning after HSJ research revealed deepening problems among the financially weakest providers.
-
NewsAcute trusts risk understaffing as short notice requests increase
Acute trusts without foundation status are increasingly putting staffing levels at risk by waiting too long to request temporary bank workers.
-
NewsMergers will not make unviable trusts sustainable, warn MPs
The takeover or merger of troubled trusts in order for them to achieve foundation status “is not a convincing solution” that will ensure their future sustainability, according to MPs.
-
News
GP contracts barrier to Spanish care model
GP contracts would make it “difficult, if not impossible” to introduce a cost saving Spanish integrated care model in the UK, a new report by the NHS Confederation has concluded.
-
NewsGovernment urged to raise alcohol prices by leading medics
More expensive alcoholic drinks would save thousands of lives and prevent medical experts have said,
-
NewsCost of rising emergency dementia admissions revealed
There has been a 12 per cent growth over five years in the number of people with dementia admitted to hospital as an emergency, according to a report exclusively shared with HSJ.
-
NewsTrusts could receive 'unfair' penalties without pressure ulcer guidance
NHS trusts could be unfairly penalised over the prevalence of pressure ulcers unless nationally agreed guidance on recording and measuring the condition is introduced, tissue viability nurses have warned.
-
NewsPrivate sector faces referral to Competition Commission
The NHS reforms would have “blown up in people’s faces” without last week’s decision to refer the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission, the boss of Circle has told HSJ.
-
NewsLondon NHS strategy has 'no clear lead'
The NHS in London faces a “strategic vacuum” with no clear lead to drive through change, The King’s Fund has said.
-
NewsConcerns over junior doctors' acute care training
Newly qualified doctors do not feel they have the training to look after very ill patients, according to a new study.