All Acute care articles – Page 390
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Inspectors called in at Birmingham Children's Hospital
The Healthcare Commission is to investigate concerns about care and management at Birmingham Children's Hospital foundation trust.
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How are NHS top-ups going to affect your services?
The announcement that patients may top up their NHS care with unapproved treatments means managers face overseeing segregation of patients and tough commissioning decisions. Helen Crump reports
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Same-day care sees admissions level off
This article examines what has been happening over the last five years with emergency admissions to acute hospitals - probably the biggest driver of all healthcare spend.
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£400m spending limit forced on NHS
NHS organisations will be permitted to spend just 400m of their 1.7bn surplus next financial year and will not get the full increase in resources pledged to them by the Treasury.
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Proposed supertrust could start life £200m in the red
A new supertrust could provide health services throughout much of south east London from next April - but would start life with a debt of more than £200m.
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Chemotherapy may be overused
Chemotherapy is being provided to cancer patients near the end of their life in cases where it is inappropriate, research has suggested.
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Healthcare Commission longed for government's embrace
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has sent a frank message to staff revealing how the government failed to embrace the regulator and left it 'handicapped'.
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Sir Ian Kennedy on the future of the annual health check
The Act of Parliament that established the Healthcare Commission required us to assess on an annual basis the performance of every NHS organisation, taking account of the standards issued by the Department of Health. Out of this requirement grew the annual health check.
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Norman Niven on wasted medicine
The more I read about the NHS's troubles, the more I wonder whether dramatic headlines about bed shortages, waiting lists and superbugs serve to obscure a problem that is far less attention grabbing but potentially more damaging to UK healthcare.
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Scottish hospitals to face surprise hygiene inspections
All hospitals in Scotland face unannounced inspections to check they are clean and preventing the spread of infection.Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon announced the measure as part of a consultation on infection control.
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Better NHS training, improved NHS productivity
Effective training can have far-reaching benefits, as an initiative at one trust has demonstrated
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Healthcare Commission to investigate Birmingham Children's Hospital
The Healthcare Commission today said it would investigate serious concerns about care and management at Birmingham Children's Hospital foundation trust.Clinicians at the hospital and at University Hospitals Birmingham foundation trust reported problems including a perception of 'poor and disorganised management processes and lack of confidence in managers at all levels'.
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Jenny Rogers on enoughism
It is probably a bit eccentric, but I began a recent holiday by spending three days with a modest and talented genius called Chris Wing, who comes and sorts out your messy home.
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Hospital prescribing: a taste of each other's medicine
Comparing acute trusts' prescribing activity is a valuable if difficult exercise, say Ray Fitzpatrick and Ron Pate
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Organ donation: a bit of give and take
The row over consent to organ donation is as old as transplantation itself. With a government task force due to make a final decision soon it has had to navigate some murky ethical waters, writes Daloni Carlisle
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Queen Mary's chief resigns as trust plans three-way merger
The chief executive of Queen Mary's Hospital trust in Sidcup has resigned in the week her board signed off plans to merge with two other trusts.
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Rise in assaults on NHS staff
More than 55,000 physical assaults were reported against NHS staff in England last year.
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Managers warn NHS top-up review risks inequalities
Health managers have given a cautious welcome to cancer czar Mike Richards' landmark review of co-payments but warned that the plans could make the NHS less 'equal'.
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NHS trusts may face charges for 'never events'
Politicians have urged health officials to make hospital trusts bear the full cost of so-called 'never events' to help redress the imbalance between weak commissioners and strong providers.
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NICE may change drug rules for end of life
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence wants to apply different rules when deciding whether to recommend expensive drugs for terminally ill patients with rare conditions.