All Acute care articles – Page 277
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HSJ KnowledgeGrand designs: enhancing recovery on a bigger scale
Enhanced recovery pathways have worked well in individual trusts, but an innovative implementation approach is delivering results across an entire London sector, write Caroline Grace and colleagues.
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HSJ KnowledgeAre commissioners in it for the long haul?
Long-term conditions are likely to take centre stage as GPs get to grips with commissioning - but reforming care for patients with chronic diseases may require changes closer to home, says Alison Moore.
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HSJ KnowledgeGood call: why telehealth is so important to patients with long-term conditions
Telehealth will be one of the weapons in the armoury of the NHS as it deals with the increasing number of patients with long-term conditions. Alison Moore asks whether telehealth will be the next big thing and what the barriers are to wider use.
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NewsMonitor increases efficiency target to 'reflect the economic outlook'
Foundation trusts may have to make significant increases in efficiency savings if a “worst case” scenario predicted by the regulator hits the sector.
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The barriers to achieving cost effective interventions
A lack of clarity around the effectiveness of out of hospital interventions is preventing their potential cost efficiencies from being realised. But, says Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon, there are reasons to be cheerful.
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NewsLansley blames waiting time rise on snow
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has blamed the “severe winter” for an increase in NHS waiting times.
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NewsNo hospital doctors on consortia boards
Patients and other health professionals are being excluded from the “closed shop” of GP commissioning consortium boards, an HSJ investigation has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeImproving vascular outcomes: the challenge of delivering NHS Health Checks
A mobile pilot in Hastings and Rother has demonstrated how the NHS Health Check programme can help successfully battle against vascular disease. East Sussex Community Health Services health development manager Hayley Martin explains.
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NewsAcute mixed-sex ward breaches still in the thousands
Nearly half of NHS acute trusts are still putting patients in mixed-sex accommodation despite facing financial penalties, new figures show.
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HSJ Local
Pressure ulcers spark serious incident reports at Oxford Radcliffe
PERFORMANCE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust reported 19 serious incidents requiring investigation (SIRIs) in the three months to December 2010.
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HSJ Local
Homerton just shy of budget surplus target
FINANCE: Homerton hospital was predicting a £1.7m surplus in month ten, slightly behind plan, documents released to HSJ show.
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CommentIs the NHS constitution still relevant in the new NHS landscape?
Since the government came to power and the health secretary announced sweeping reforms to the NHS, there seems to have been little focus on the NHS constitution. Gerard Hanratty, partner at healthcare law firm Capsticks, weighs up what may happen to it under the coalition government.
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NewsTrusts struggling to hit accident and emergency indicators
Fewer than half of accident and emergency departments are on course to meet the new “indicator” for measuring the time taken to treat patients, an HSJ analysis suggests.
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NewsTrusts set 'unlikely' savings targets for 2011-12
England’s acute trusts have increased the scale of their cost improvement programmes by nearly a third in 2011-12, an HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsWaiting times rising amid cuts, King's Fund finds
NHS waiting times are rising as financial strain on the healthcare system begins to show, according to a report published today.
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NewsMulti agency investigation into Legionnaires' disease case
A multi agency investigation has been launched after a case of Legionnaires’ disease was confirmed in Scotland.
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HSJ KnowledgeStepping up: the collaborative approach to becoming a model of innovation
A group of organisations has developed a stepped approach for healthcare services to identify the best ways of joining forces in the search for bigger savings.
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NewsChase Farm services decision faces further delays
A planned hospital shake-up seen as a test case for health secretary Andrew Lansley’s appetite for reconfigurations faces further delays after redrafted proposals were rejected by MPs.
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NewsNHS denying patients care, claims surgeon group
British surgeons have accused the NHS of denying needy patients treatment in order to balance their books.
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HSJ KnowledgeIdentifying areas of readmission, and implementing the right interventions
As readmission rates continue to rise around the country, one trust’s study into the causes should help it avoid financial penalties - and paves the way for others to do the same, reports West Suffolk Hospitals Trust’s senior house officer Nina Wilson.