All Acute care articles – Page 289
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NewsDH struggling to achieve consultant choice within deadline
Patients’ ability to choose between named consultant led teams for elective hospital care looks unlikely to be significantly extended by the government’s deadline in April.
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NewsDH ignored advice to cut children's acute top-ups
A report on the true cost of specialised care has provided fresh evidence that the government bowed to political pressure not to reduce funding to children’s acute services.
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NewsDozens of consortia match PCT area
Nearly half of primary care trusts are expecting a single commissioning consortium to span the same geographical area that they currently cover.
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NewsDon't simply cut posts to deliver QIPP savings, Easton warns trusts
The Department of Health will be “increasingly discriminating” between trusts that find genuine efficiencies and those that simply cut posts, national director for improvement Jim Easton has warned.
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CommentYour humble servant: the spectre of Stalin looms over year end
It’s difficult to make end of financial year decisions when pain aligns so closely with pleasure.
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CommentWhat will the private sector do with failed hospitals?
The setting of a final deadline for NHS trusts to apply for foundation status is certainly focusing minds and starting to move long-postponed jobs out of the “too hard” tray, but the unpalatable truth is that some trusts are not going to make it by the drop-dead date of 1 ...
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Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Hospitals to seek FT status in 2013
STRUCTURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells will submit an application for foundation status to the Department of Health in 2013, according to its strategic health authority.
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Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals set to apply for FT status in May
STRUCTURE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals will submit its authorisation for foundation status to the Department of Health in May 2011, according to its strategic health authority.
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East Sussex Hospitals Trust to make FT application in 2012
STRUCTURE: East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust will submit an application for foundation status to the Department of Health in October 2012, according to its strategic health authority.
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Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals wins deanery bid
STRUCTURE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has been selected as the host organisation for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery.
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Efficiency training for managers underway at Ashford and St Peter’s
WORKFORCE: Executives at Ashford and St Peter’s have received leadership training to try and make them more productive.
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A&E pressures at Ashford and St Peter’s
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s experienced significant capacity pressure in accident and emergency during February as a result of winter weather.
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NewsBlood service privatisation criticised in Commons
Privatising parts of the National Blood Service could put people off donating as they would see companies profiting from their generosity, an MP said today.
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Newcastle hospitals firm speeds cancer screening
COMMERCIAL: A firm part-owned by Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust says it is offering faster turnaround breast cancer screening after developing new gene testing methods.
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Doncaster plans extension of new bariatric service
STRUCTURE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust is planning to extend its bariatric surgery service which opened last year.
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NewsHinchingbrooke failing to protect patients, says CQC
Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust is failing to protect patients from “unsafe or inappropriate care, treatment and support”, the Care Quality Commission has ruled
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NewsHealth bodies withdraw from alcohol policy
Leading health organisations have slammed the government’s “responsibility deal” on alcohol and refused to sign up as partners.
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CommentWhat do we really care about in the NHS?
While there are plenty of people who care about making the system work, in striving for improved access and technical excellence we seem to have stopped caring for the whole person. So what is it we really care about?
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping community children's health services
A complex reprocurement set out to help young patients and their families benefit from integrated community services. Kevin Hewitt, partnership director of the Community Children’s Health Partnership, explains the journey.
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NewsDH 'reneging' on cancer drugs fund pledge
The Department of Health stands accused of reneging on a pledge to provide extra money for cancer drugs after admitting the £200m pot will be mainly funded by clawing back primary care trust budgets.