All Acute care articles – Page 347
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News'Extraordinary resources' needed in C diff fight
Controlling the spread of C difficile may require “extraordinary resources”, an expert has warned.
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NewsTories pledge to slash hospital readmissions
More than 500,000 patients are readmitted to hospital every year soon after being allowed home, figures obtained by the Conservatives show.
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NewsLeaked FTN document: no job guarantees for foundation trust staff
Staff working for foundation trusts are at risk of compulsory redundancy because of the impending public sector spending squeeze, a leaked report suggests.
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NewsNHS boss 'ordered report cover up'
Hospital bosses at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have launched an investigation into allegations that a senior hospital official ordered a consultant to play down failures in treatment after a young man died from an undiagnosed ruptured spleen.
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NewsDoctors still failing to meet hand-washing targets
Scottish hospital doctors have been criticised after new figures showed they are still failing to meet hand-washing targets.
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HSJ KnowledgePatient experience: what counts for the customer?
A satisfaction score system used by businesses is highly relevant to the NHS, say Richard Ingleton and colleagues
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NewsBill Moyes calls for DH unit to tackle ‘lethargic’ non-FTs
The outgoing executive chair of Monitor spent his last days in post urging the Department of Health to establish a new body to tackle “lethargic” trusts that have still not applied for foundation status.
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NewsBill Moyes takes pride in rocking the foundations
Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes leaves the foundation trust regulator this week with no regrets about his stormy journey, as he tells Sally Gainsbury in his final interview
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NewsSHAs return to topslicing budgets
Strategic health authorities are introducing stringent financial rules and mandatory topslicing in a bid to keep the NHS in balance next financial year.
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NewsNICE guidance calls for clot risk checks
All patients admitted to hospital should be assessed for the risk of developing blood clots and then given preventive treatment, according to new NICE guidance on the prevention of venous thromboembolism.
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NewsCancer cost saving
The NHS should save money by decommissioning cancer services for which there is no significant benefit, such as routine follow-up for breast cancer patients, according to King’s Health Partners Integrated Cancer Centre director Arnie Purushotham.
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CommentPeter Reeves: a new deal for NHS non-executives
Fresh thinking is needed to help NHS non-executive directors hold their boards to account - and find self-fulfilment
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NewsQIPP leads reveal hit list
Slashing follow-up appointments after surgery and spending on drugs will be two of the controversial areas targeted first by the national quality and productivity leads.
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NewsNHS IT programme: patient record options urged
The national programme for IT must urgently support short term alternatives to its main hospital patient record products. Otherwise, it will put at risk NHS efforts to save money while protecting patients, the former interim Department of Health chief information officer has said.
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NewsTrust failings allowed nurse to kill, says report
A series of failings at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in West Yorkshire allowed former nurse Colin Norris to kill four elderly patients, an independent inquiry has found.
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NewsKing's Fund report calls for end of life care investment
Steps must be taken to continue the existing commitment to end of life care and give patients meaningful choices about where they are to die, a report by the King’s Fund says.
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NewsData on assault admissions released
More than 181,000 people were admitted to accident and emergency after assaults in 2008-09, data from the NHS Information Centre reveals.
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Foundation seeks pay rise below Agenda for Change rate
The only foundation trust outside the national pay framework has made its first real attempt to break away from national pay rates.
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NewsHospital lands low carbon award
A London hospital has joined Marks & Spencer, Chelsea Football Club and high street chain Pret a Manger in earning recognition for its work on reducing carbon emissions.
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NewsHealth Foundation announces quality improvement scheme
The Health Foundation is offering 18 funded places on a new quality improvement leadership scheme.