All Acute care articles – Page 288
-
HSJ Local
University Hospitals Leicester Trust fails to improve A&E times despite PCT warning
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Leicester Trust has failed to achieve the terms set out in an A&E performance notice.
-
News
Government bid to avoid herbal medicines rule
The government is to sidestep an EU directive designed to protect consumers from unlicensed herbal and Chinese medicines.
-
HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire Healthcare rejects PCT call to extend waiting times
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare has rejected the local PCTs request to extend waiting times for non-urgent patients.
-
News
Shake-up opposed by Lansley gets green light
A controversial reconfiguration criticised by Andrew Lansley before he became health secretary has finally been given the go ahead.
-
HSJ Local
Quality and finance problems evident in the East
There have been problems of late for acute providers in the East, with two of its foundation trusts in trouble with the Care Quality Commission and another being scrutinised by the strategic health authority.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Real healthcare reform needs a new conceptual landscape
Real healthcare reform requires a fundamental change in thinking, because more of the same just won’t do the trick, says Ann Porter, founder and chief executive of social innovation company Soda.
-
Comment
Competition can work, but only with the right tactics
“Competition in health care should be tactical not ideological”. This was the main message from the “Competition versus integration in the NHS” debate organised by the Cambridge Health Network and the King’s Fund
-
-
Comment
Bill Moyes: the reform agenda presents a massive opportunity
The government’s reform agenda for the NHS isn’t the beginning of the end of a primarily tax funded healthcare system. The reforms are probably the best way to preserve that for another generation or more. So, instead of focusing on the risks, let’s give more attention to the opportunities.
-
HSJ Knowledge
The importance of administration, management and bureaucracy in healthcare
Examination of last month’s Health Bill has resulted in a renewed attack on NHS managers and the ‘back-office functions’ administration, management and bureaucracy. However, not only are these functions quite separate, they are all still essential, write John Carrier, Chair of NHS Camden, and professor Ian Kendall from the University ...
-
News
'Challenged' acute trusts abandon independent FT status plans
More than half of the Department of Health’s seven financially “challenged” trusts appear to have abandoned plans to become foundation trusts.
-
News
Joint surgery redesign could save trusts £664m
NHS Trusts can save £664m from the total they spend on joint surgery over the next 10 years, according to an exclusive analysis made available on hsj.co.uk.
-
News
PCTs agree to consult on children's congenital heart services
A joint committee of primary care trusts has given the go-ahead for a consultation on plans for greater centralisation of paediatric cardiac care.
-
HSJ Local
Yorks and North East pathfinders reflect national uncertainty
News about the NHS’s new commissioning system is surfacing across the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, reflecting discussions across England.
-
News
Post discharge death rates revealed
Nearly a fifth of deaths linked to hospital care occur after discharge, according to mortality figures published by the NHS Information Centre.
-
News
Early death 'more likely in the North'
People living in the north of England are 20 per cent more likely to die prematurely than those in the South, research suggests.
-
News
DH looks to private sector to save money on blood service
The Department of Health is considering outsourcing key elements of the NHS blood service to the private sector.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Public-private health services show bright promise in Spain
Bupa’s Spanish subsidiary’s example of public-private health services is arousing interest in the UK, says Daloni Carlisle.
-
HSJ Local
Blackpool Teaching FT overperforms by £3.8m on NHS Blackpool contract
FINANCE: By the end of December the foundation had over-performed against its contract with primary care trust NHS Blackpool by £3,794,458.
-
News
Anti-trespass laws to be used to shift bed blocking patients
Hospitals in north Merseyside are planning to use the anti-trespass powers used to ban “hoodies” from shopping centres to shift patients who are blocking beds.