All Acute care articles – Page 345
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NewsAmbulance targets review urged
Claims that patient care is suffering because of targets imposed on the ambulance service have prompted calls for a government review.
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CommentJon Restell: could the NHS ever be like this?
People tell me I am good at predictions, so here is my month by month forecast for 2010.
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NewsNHS IT must focus on efficiency and core elements
The NHS must focus IT developments on better efficiency, chief executives have been told.
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News‘Avoid merger distractions’
The NHS must focus on patients when considering mergers with social care, the Department of Health’s new quality and productivity clinical lead has warned.
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NewsFoundation trusts urged to take over more NHS activity
Next year could see foundation trusts taking control of significant areas of NHS activity.
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NewsPCTs could struggle to hit MRSA ‘objective’
A significant proportion of primary care trusts may struggle to hit a challenging new “zero tolerance” MRSA target, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsClot prevention is 2010-11 quality priority
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has said preventing venous thromboembolism will be the top clinical priority for improving quality and productivity in hospitals in 2010-11.
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NewsTariff puts brake on acute admissions
Acute trusts will be paid only 30 per cent of the NHS tariff price for emergency activity above their 2008-09 levels, this week’s operating framework confirms.
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NewsTrusts poised to eliminate mixed sex wards, report says
Most NHS hospitals in England are poised to provide single sex wards and facilities for everyone by June next year, according to health minister Ann Keen.
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NewsBill Moyes departs on a warning note for FTs
Bill Moyes, the executive chair of the foundation trust regulator Monitor, has ended speculation that his role might be extended until the election.
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NewsNurse policing is to be ‘more proactive’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to be more “proactive” in its policing of poor nursing care, including carrying out inspections of trusts, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
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NewsAdvances in care for kidney patients
Over the past five years the diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease has improved “significantly”, according to health officials.
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NewsConfusion over emergency services
Accident and emergency departments in Wales risk being overloaded by patients because of confusion about where to get treatment, it has been claimed.
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NewsPoor performers on MRSA targeted
The trusts with the worst records for cutting cases of MRSA are to be targeted by a new objective from the Department of Health.
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NewsNHS investigates surge in equipment theft
An official probe has been launched into a growing spate of thefts from across the NHS.
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HSJ KnowledgeMajor injury: how regional units take the crisis out of trauma
A group led by the Royal College of Surgeons has studied the benefits to patients and managers of a regionalised response to major injury. Helen Mooney reports
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NewsNHS operating framework to offer mixed blessings for hospitals
Hospitals will only be paid 30 per cent of the tariff price for emergency procedures they perform over their 2008-09 volume levels, the Department of Health has confirmed.
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NewsHospital income link to patient satisfaction
Hospitals will have up to 10 per cent of their income based on patient satisfaction, health secretary Andy Burnham announced yesterday.
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NewsAmbulance service efficiency savings halted
Wales’s ambulance service will not be required to make efficiency savings after a report said it was performing worse than services in other parts of the UK, it was announced today.
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NewsPatients could be offered one to one nursing care
Patients with complex long term conditions could be offered one to one nursing care under plans outlined by health secretary Andy Burnham today.