All Acute care articles – Page 297
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Comment'Accountability in the NHS is a mess'
Ministers in Whitehall have excessive powers to interfere and meddle in local operational issues, with primary care trusts controlled by strategic health authorities and SHAs by Whitehall.
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NewsInnovation Expo to profile QIPP programme
Sir David Nicholson and health minister Earl Howe are spearheading the Department of Health’s support for the 2011 Healthcare Innovation Expo, which takes place in London’s Docklands on 9-10 March.
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NewsTrust in breach of six CQC standards
One of the Department of Health’s seven “financially challenged” trusts has been found in breach of standards in six separate areas by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsNHS market faces closer EU attention
Government plans to allow “any willing provider” to compete for most NHS clinical contracts could expose the health service to challenge under European competition law, experts warn.
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NewsCancer strategy relies more heavily on charities
Cancer networks are to lose guaranteed funding while the government will rely on investment from charities to achieve its ambition for one to one cancer care.
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NewsGeneral hospital wards worse for heart patients
People with heart failure are twice as likely to die if they are admitted to a general hospital ward rather than one specialising in cardiology, research has suggested.
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Nicholson warns price competition could be 'extremely dangerous'
Allowing NHS hospitals to compete on price will be “extremely dangerous” without strong safeguards to protect quality, Sir David Nicholson told MPs this week.
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NewsMan held over hospital staff attack
A man is being held by police in connection with an attack at a hospital that left two staff members and five patients injured.
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NewsRCS warns on 'backdoor rationing' in NHS
The NHS is adopting a “dangerous path” by stopping certain elective surgical procedures to save money, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has warned.
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NewsWarnings over NHS reforms
Health bosses have warned of closed hospitals, treatment rationing and lower standards of patient care as a result of the government’s controversial reforms of the NHS.
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Comment'People expect public servants to preserve the public good'
The public sector is commonly perceived to be stuffed with overstaffed bureaucracies and far too many tiers of administration, and therefore it is usually concluded by external commentators that private companies produce far better leaders.
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HSJ Local
New Ashford and St Peter's FT reduces risk on VTE and safeguarding
PERFORMANCE: The trust, which achieved foundation status in December, has reduced its risk rating on venous thromboembolism phrophylaxsis and child safeguarding.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex acute trust racks up deficit
FINANCE: East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust was £6m in deficit in November.
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HSJ Local
Western Sussex acute trust slips on MRSA control
PERFORMANCE: The trust has increased its risk register rating for MRSA cases.
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HSJ Local
High MRSA breach risk at Northumbria Trust
PERFORMANCE: Very high risk of breaching annual MRSA incidence target.
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HSJ Local
Barnsley chief exec made permanent
STRUCTURE: Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed a permanent chief executive to its board of directors.
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HSJ Local
Bradford FT action plan on A&E waits
PERFORMANCE: [There has been a] slip on performance from 98% in the A&E target.
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Comment
'Is the long stay trim a haircut too far?'
With payment by results, the devil is sometimes in the detail.
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News‘System weaknesses’ expose trusts to staff and patient fraud
NHS trusts exposed themselves to more than 500 actual and potential fraud risks over a six month period, an unpublished analysis has revealed.
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NewsRules change on EU treatments
Plans to allow patients to receive health treatments abroad that are not available on the NHS have been defeated, according to a confidential document seen by HSJ.