All Acute care articles – Page 333
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News
Cost of weekend A&E police cover revealed
Hospitals are paying tens of thousands of pounds for police officers to cover accident and emergency departments on Friday and Saturday nights, it has been disclosed.
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News
Three shortlisted in race to run Hinchingbrooke
Three bidders have been shortlisted to win the franchise to run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust.
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News
NHS elderly care review launched
The Welsh government has launched a review into the level of respect and dignity given to the elderly in hospitals.
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News
Call to investigate excessive death rates
Excessive death rates at 25 hospital trusts should be probed by the government, one of Britain’s leading experts on the subject has said.
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DH explains QIPP plans to 340,000 clinicians
The Department of Health has distributed more than 340,000 copies of a document explaining the need for efficiency savings to clinicians.
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Reactor repairs hold up diagnostic test supplies
Trusts are likely to face mounting delays in diagnostic tests for cardiac, cancer and kidney patients due to a worldwide shortage of a vital radioactive material.
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Comment
David Nicholson on NHS incentives and ideology
My job as NHS chief executive is to help transform the healthcare system from a rigid top-down monopoly to a service that is much more focused on the individual needs of patients.
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Comment
Chris Ham on urgency for healthcare innovation
Labour’s tenure has seen massive progress in areas including access to services and cardiac and cancer care. But the greatest changes must now follow fast - things can only get different
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News
How Labour saved the NHS from the brink
Nigel Crisp believes that when Labour inherited the NHS in 1997 it was ‘falling apart’. After four years away from the service the former chief executive reflects on the successes of the last 13 years - and the missed opportunities. By Alastair McLellan
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Comment
Andy McKeon: why money could not unravel the NHS red tape
Whoever wins the forthcoming election will have some unfinished business on health policy to attend to, even if it is possible to declare victory over waiting lists.
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News
A&E alternatives ‘confuse’ the public
Many of the health centres presented as alternatives to hospital accident and emergency offer unreliable services and confuse the public, advisers to the Department of Health have warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS mergers: master the art of joined up thinking
Merger is a course of action that will only succeed if its aims are clearly defined from the start, warns Phil Kenmore
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS public engagement: showcase services with all the fun of the fair
Three large NHS organisations in Kent recognised its summer county show was an ideal venue for getting people familiar with their NHS, reports Alison Moore
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News
Better alcohol services could save hospitals £393m
Tens of thousands of hospital admissions for alcohol could be prevented each year if services to help drinkers were improved, a new report claims.
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New £1.5m NHS uniforms 'cause rashes'
A £1.5m programme to introduce colour-coded NHS uniforms in Wales could be scrapped after scores of nurses complained that the items caused painful rashes.
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Burnham, Lamb and Lansley clash in health debate
The three main political parties all accused each other of “failing the NHS” before Thursday evening’s televised debate between the Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat leaders.
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News
Judgement reserved in Rose Gibb appeal case
The final outcome of the Rose Gibb case may not be known until after the election, after judgement was reserved today in her Appeal Court hearing.
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News
Norfolk records major drop in bed blocking
There were up to 75 per cent fewer patients waiting for discharge on any one day across Norfolk this winter, following the introduction of a “capacity plan” to reduce bed blocking across the county.
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Leader
Heed Liam Donaldson’s frosty warning on winter pressures
The chief medical officer’s call for a plan to reduce the number of deaths in winter was welcomed by the health service but the responses from different parts of the sector smacked of buck passing.
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Comment
Roger Taylor on the NHS safety debate
The public needs all the facts to enable them to fully engage in the debate on healthcare safety