All Acute care articles – Page 353
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CommentMedia Watch: 'secret tipplers' and Scottish GPs
In the NHS, there is widespread agreement that early action to prevent disease, or at least spot it earlier, is beneficial for patients and the health service alike.
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CommentStephen Eames on defending district general hospitals
Reconfiguration of acute and community services is bound to be on the cards again, once the dust has settled on the autumn QIPP and Monitor downside submissions.
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NewsFT warning over competition panel ruling on consultants
Foundation trusts have warned most decisions on allowing consultants to work for other providers will need to be decided individually, despite a co-operation and competition panel ruling last week that attempts to prevent such work were anti-competitive and undermined patient choice.
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NewsCornwall PCT looks for leader as another chief goes
Cornwall’s primary care trust and hospital trust are both looking for new chief executives.
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CommentCally Bann: no beating an annual general meeting
You can’t beat a good annual general meeting, can you? Well maybe you can, with just about anything: walking on glass, needles under the fingernails, back to back episodes of Big Brother, a detailed discussion on the board assurance framework…
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NewsAndy Burnham makes hospital car parking pledge
Health secretary Andy Burnham has pledged to phase out hospital car parking charges for inpatients and their relatives and friends over the next three years.
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NewsHospital mortality ratio wrangling ‘compromises confidence’
Disagreement about the right way of measuring hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios is compromising “confidence in them and their effective use”, the NHS Information Centre has warned.
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NewsMinister delays foundation trust application
A hospital trust’s foundation application has been delayed by health minister Mike O’Brien in an unusual intervention in the authorisation process.
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CommentThe four hour A&E target: an accident waiting to happen?
While many have commended the government’s achievement of the promised four hour waiting target in accident and emergency, there are still concerns over whether this comes at the expense of quality and patient care
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NewsAlan Milburn attacks Andy Burnham for making NHS the preferred provider
Former health secretary Alan Milburn has attacked Andy Burnham’s decision to move away from competition and make the NHS the “preferred provider” of services.
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NewsLib Dems reveal £110m NHS parking charges
Car parking charges at NHS hospitals totalled £110 million last year, according to the Liberal Democrats.
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NewsGordon Brown to unveil seven day cancer test pledge
Patients will undergo diagnostic tests for cancer within seven days of concerns being raised, prime minister Gordon Brown is to pledge.
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NewsNHS hospital equipment 'under-used' - Taxpayers' Alliance
Hospitals are failing to make use of sophisticated and expensive treatment technology, the Taxpayers’ Alliance has claimed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Waiting times
Sustaining and bettering 18 weeks is one of the biggest successes of the NHS in the last decade.
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HSJ Knowledge
Operating theatre management
In 2007 we examined initiatives to improve throughput of operating theatres in a large teaching hospital, with 52 operating theatres each running at an estimated cost of £4800 per day, and performing 50-60,000 operations per year.
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NewsNurses urged to show savings
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is to calculate and publish “opportunity savings” in 10 changes to the way nurses work.
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NewsPatient satisfaction guaranteed: the future of payment by results?
The health secretary’s promise of a greater focus on patient experience has the approval of NHS leaders - as long as it is done properly, reports Rebecca Evans
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CommentMedia Watch: NHS cost cutting
At the start of last week, the papers were obsessed with Gordon Brown’s first use of the C-word. By the end of the week politicians of all hues were at it and it was impossible to get away from it.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on NHS reform
NHS reform requires the creation of significant parts of the NHS system that are independent of the Department of Health and the NHS mainstream hierarchy of the past.
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NewsNHS competition panel rejects limit on consultants’ work outside their contracts
The co-operation and competition panel has said that restrictions on consultants working for other providers during their non-contractive hours are anti-competitive and against NHS principles.