All Acute care articles – Page 363
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NewsJim Easton to continue Lord Darzi's work on NHS quality
The Department of Health’s new head of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention, Jim Easton, has vowed to “follow through” on Lord Darzi’s commitment to quality.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on commissioning strategy plans
Nearly all primary care trust commissioning strategy plans describe a rationale for their intentions over the next five years. Tailored to the health and healthcare needs of their population, they describe future actions which intend to move activity out of secondary care, and cut emergency admissions and attendance at A&E.
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CommentJoan Saddler on patient centred services
Actively seeking out and acting on patient feedback to shape services is still far from the norm but is fundamental to putting quality at the heart of the NHS.
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LeaderKeep calm and carry on: staff, like patients, need reassuring
HSJ and Nursing Times’s survey this week of almost 1,500 staff reveals a national health service largely confident in its ability to cope with the swine flu pandemic, but concerned their jobs are being made more difficult by hype and hysteria.
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NewsManagers quietly confident as NHS battles swine flu pandemic
Managers and staff are confident the NHS is coping successfully with swine flu, an HSJ and Nursing Times survey reveals.
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NewsBetter communication could avoid deaths in hospital
The first annual summary of coroners’ reports into the circumstances around avoidable deaths has highlighted the need for better hospital communication processes.
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NewsAntony Sumara 'flattered' to get Mid Staffs top job
The new chief executive of scandal hit Mid Staffordshire foundation trust says he will help the organisation recover by being “open, honest and transparent”.
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NewsNHS hospital franchise plan gets green light
The running of an NHS hospital is to be franchised out, potentially to a private company, in the first arrangement of its kind.
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NewsAsylum seekers to get free NHS treatment
Free NHS treatment is to be given to thousands of failed asylum seekers in Britain, it has been revealed. Currently immigrants who fail to gain refugee status are not entitled to free care, but ministers are set to extend the benefits to those who cannot leave the country “through no ...
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NewsAndy Burnham dismisses Mid Staffs inquiry as 'too distracting'
Health secretary Andy Burnham has defended his decision to stop short of launching a full public inquiry into failures at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust, telling HSJ he thought it would be “distracting to managers”.
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NewsNHS care indicators on new website
Two hundred care quality indicators are to be made available on a single NHS website with the enthusiastic backing of outgoing health minister Lord Darzi.
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NewsNational service to ease swine flu pressures
Attempts to ease the pressures on GPs caused by swine flu have been welcomed by British Medical Association GPs committee chairman Dr Laurence Buckman.
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NewsTrust chief moves to SHA before critical report
A chief executive at a trust that “tolerated poor and mediocre practices” and failed to properly investigate serious incidents has been given a job at NHS London.
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NewsLondon agrees stroke and trauma overhaul
Plans to overhaul stroke and major trauma care in London have been approved by a committee of the city’s primary care trusts.
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Bradford hospitals facing £50m cuts
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS foundation trust has said it is looking for ways to save £50 million over the next three years.
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NewsTrust chief seconded to swine flu task force
Marie Burnham, chief executive of East Lancashire Hospitals trust, has been granted 12 months leave of absence to head an NHS North West swine flu task force.
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CommentSurvey: How do you think the NHS is coping with swine flu?
Health Service Journal and Nursing Times would like to hear about the experience of swine flu by NHS staff so we can share with you, via our magazines and websites, how nurses and managers are feeling and what support they are getting.
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NewsHospital's threatened out of hours services saved
A hospital in West Dunbartonshire is to continue its out of hours “unscheduled care” despite fears it would be cancelled.
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NewsNew chief for Royal Free Hospital
David Sloman has been named as the new chief executive of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London. He will take up the position in September.
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NewsSwine flu to hit 12 per cent of NHS staff at one time
The health service has been told to prepare for up to 8 per cent of the population suffering from swine flu at any one time - and up to 12 per cent of the NHS workforce.