All Acute care articles – Page 37
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Covid block contracts to remain in place until autumn
System leaders now expect the financial arrangements for NHS providers introduced to help the service deal with the pandemic to be rolled over until the autumn, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMega-merger trust tells NHSE it cannot eliminate year-long waiters by next year
A large East of England trust has told NHS England it cannot eliminate its 52-week waiting list backlog in 2021-22 as it had previously promised.
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News‘Very boring discussions’ about ICS could quash system working, warns top trust chief
Fixating on the bureaucracy of integrated care systems will cause agile health systems forged during the pandemic to come to a ‘grinding halt’, warns the outgoing chief executive of a major London acute.
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NewsFunding negotiations end with extra £6.6bn for NHS England
Matt Hancock has said the NHS will get an additional £6.6bn on top of the funding envelope set out in the Budget earlier this month.
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NewsTrust chiefs predict ‘massive problem’ if centre starts elective recovery next month
The NHS should start off the next financial year focusing on staff recovery and postpone ratcheting up elective recovery efforts and other long-term priorities until the second quarter, senior figures have warned.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2020: Acute Sector Innovation of the Year
WINNER: University College London and University College London Hospitals FT – The UCL Ventura CPAP device - engineering a ‘just-in-time’ covid-19 solution
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2020: Acute or Specialist Trust of the Year
WINNER: Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT
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NewsVaccine centres must suspend new appointments amid ‘significant reduction in supply’
Mass covid vaccination centres and pharmacies must stop booking new first doses for April due to a ‘significant reduction’ in supplies, NHS England has announced.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: A critical window of opportunity for UEC reform
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter will track prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentThe NHS is sleepwalking into a cardiovascular catastrophe
Cardiovascular disease has received a concerning disregard during the pandemic, which will mean a looming avalanche of strokes and heart attacks over the coming months and years, warns Jules Payne
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NewsCapital budgets could be cut in areas that lose control of finances, NHSE warns
Health systems that fail to show robust monitoring and control of their capital budget could see their allocation cut in subsequent years, regulators have warned.
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NewsCovid patients now fill fewer than 10pc of general hospital beds in every system
All of England’s health systems now have fewer than 10 per cent of general hospital beds occupied by covid-positive patients, and half are at 5 per cent or below, according to HSJ analysis.
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HSJ LocalICS to push ahead with contentious reconfiguration
Several acute services are set to be centralised in a partial ‘hot/cold split’ after local health chiefs recommended a controversial reconfiguration between two district general hospitals.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: A Greater big dog's dinner
Tensions have been building in Greater Manchester around the extent to which it should try to diverge from the “integrated care system” model which is being prescribed nationally.
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CommentHow to better help children needing mental healthcare in acute trusts
Unless the CQC adopts some kind of bare minimum mental health staffing level measure, we will continue to fail children, young people and families in acute trusts. By Dr Virginia Davies
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NewsNHSE director: It could take a year for cancer services to return to normal
NHS England’s cancer director has said it could take another year for the level of cancer treatments and diagnosis carried out to return to normal, after being impeded by covid-19.
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NewsRevealed: which acute trusts performed best and worst in 2020 staff survey
HSJ analysis has revealed which acute trusts have returned the strongest and weakest performance in the annual NHS staff survey — and which have seen the greatest change.
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NewsAlmost one in 10 orthopaedic and general surgery patients now waiting over a year
Around 8 per cent of patients are now waiting a year or more for elective care in five specialties, as the number of very long waiters again increased significantly, new figures show.
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NewsStevens seeks assurance that Adler and Traynor will be investigated should they ‘re-emerge’
NHS England will seek assurance from the Care Quality Commission that the former chief executive and finance director of University Hospitals of Leicester Trust will be scrutinised under the fit and proper persons test should they “re-emerge” in the NHS.
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News‘Urgent need’ to secure extra funding beyond Budget allocation, says Stevens
The chief executive of NHS England has told MPs there is an ‘urgent need’ to secure additional funding beyond what was announced in last week’s budget, and that he expects this to be agreed by the Treasury.