All Acute care articles – Page 342
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NewsCall to boost rural healthcare
The Royal College of Nursing Scotland is calling for new technology to improve patients’ access to healthcare.
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NewsExcluding independent sector from NHS services 'potentially unlawful'
Excluding the independent sector from bidding to provide NHS services is “unacceptable and potentially unlawful”, the NHS Confederation Partners Network has said.
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NewsHeart surgery suspended as deaths investigated
John Radcliffe Hospital is investigating the deaths of four children who underwent heart operations there in recent months.
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NewsOne in 10 concerned about own trust's care standards
One in 10 NHS staff believe the poor care seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust may be experienced by patients at their own trust, an HSJ poll suggests.
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NewsMonitor claims its quality bar is now set high enough
The new system of regulation will stand up to the scrutiny of a new inquiry into its role around Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, Monitor believes.
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CommentJenny Owen on a new solution to health and social care funding
A solution to social care funding must be agreed to get the most benefit from joint working
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NewsFrancis report criticises SHA's mortality research
The Francis inquiry has added to the heated debate on how the NHS should use hospital standardised mortality ratios.
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NewsNHS West Midlands faces review of its services
NHS services across the West Midlands are to be reviewed by a panel of senior doctors following last week’s damning report into Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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CommentNoel Plumridge on the rules of payment by results
A rules-based system. That was the aspiration in 2004 when payment by results was introduced to England’s NHS.
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NewsNottingham trust criticised over waiting time irregularities
One of England’s busiest accident and emergency departments failed to report breaches of the four hour treatment targets for at least four years, an independent report has said.
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NewsRoyal Berks chief takes up post
Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust’s new chief executive Edward Donald began work this week, although he does not assume official responsibility for running the trust until 1 April.
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NewsMental health trusts best at patient involvement
Mental health trusts have made the greatest efforts to reflect patients’ views in the precursors to formal quality accounts, the Foundation Trust Network has found.
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NewsNHS market reforms are not linked with better care
The introduction of competition to the NHS cannot be shown to have improved the health service, and may have produced extra costs.
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NewsEmergency medical retrieval service to be extended
Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service will be extended to cover all of remote and rural Scotland, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy NHS volunteering is all round value
Aintree is one of many trusts that both benefit from and give advantages to volunteers, reports Alison Moore
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NewsMid Staffs families to sue for manslaughter
Families affected by failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have said they are planning to sue NHS managers for corporate manslaughter.
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NewsBasildon 'guilty' over patient death
Officials at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust in Essex have today pleaded guilty to health and safety failings that led to the death of a patient with learning disabilities.
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NewsTrust given foundation status
South Warwickshire General Hospitals Trust has been awarded foundation status by regulator Monitor.
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News17-language NHS guide available
A guide on Scotland’s health services is to be translated into 17 languages in a bid to put all patients at the “heart of the NHS”, it has been announced.
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NewsManagers in court over hospital death
Officials at a hospital where a severely disabled man died are today due in court accused of breaching health and safety law.