All Acute care articles – Page 396
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Comment
Richard Gleave on healthcare innovation
Innovation is one of the nine themes identified by High Quality Care for All that run through the regional visions of how to improve health and healthcare in England.
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Comment
Ken Jarrold on public sector economics
The clouds of economic doom have gathered. When a sober chancellor tells you it is the worst situation for 60 years, it is time to take notice.
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News
Hospital trust may split into two organisations
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals trust is considering splitting into two new organisations.
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Leader
Time to get facts straight on NHS failure rates
Following HSJ's revelation last week that the Department of Health is projecting 2.1 per cent of trusts will fail each year for the next 20 years, we have been accused of misrepresenting policy.
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News
Trusts on edge as draft payment by results tariff runs into trouble
The Department of Health could be heading for a re-run of the chaos that saw the publication of the 2006-07 payment by results tariff just one week before the start of the financial year.A draft tariff for 2009-10 is being road tested in secret in the West Midlands, but sources ...
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Leader
DH faces turmoil over tariff regime
Is there going to be tariff turmoil for the second time in three years?
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on a family's care crisis
On Friday morning, Mum was readmitted to hospital. She is 85 years old and vulnerable to infections, with a provisional diagnosis of leukaemia.
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News
DH intervention forces cancer rethink
A primary care trust has been forced to review its plans to centralise specialist gastrointestinal cancer services after what is believed to be an unprecedented intervention by the Department of Health.
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News
Out of hours care standards to be applied to urgent care
National standards for out of hours providers could be extended to cover some in-hours services.
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News
Trusts urged to act on blood clots advice
Hospital trusts are being urged to adopt new guidelines designed to prevent blood clots that kill up to 25,000 people a year.
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News
Gordon Brown promises free prescriptions for cancer patients
Gordon Brown promised to abolish prescription charges for cancer patients as part of a 'new settlement' focusing on fairness.In what had been described before he spoke as the speech of his life, the prime minister's announcement that he would scrap the charges for cancer patients from April was well received ...
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News
Ben Bradshaw: NHS top-up debate will never be resolved
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has said the dilemma of whether to allow co-payments will never be resolved but that a compromise may be found in adjusting the way drug effectiveness is measured.
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Comment
Nicky Jonas on NHS volunteers abroad
Volunteering offers stressed-out NHS managers the chance to make a difference in the developing world and learn valuable new skills that can give them an edge when they return home.
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Comment
Stephen Ramsden on harm to patients
Why is there no public outcry about the harm we cause patients in hospital? Or about the avoidable deaths that happen week in, week out?
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HSJ Knowledge
Communicating major change in the NHS
How can you woo the workforce into embarking on change rather than alarm them with the unknown? Dominic Walters explains
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on caring for the whole patient
My 75-year-old father has recently had a coronary angiogram and been referred for bypass graft surgery. When I was a cardiology senior house officer in the Jurassic period, he would never have been referred for such surgery at this age.
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HSJ Knowledge
HIV services: caring for older patients
As people with HIV/AIDS live longer, services must adapt to meet the needs of more patients and the first generation of HIV-positive pensioners. Emma Dent reports
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Comment
Paul Dutton on failing NHS foundation trusts
The Department of Health this month issued a consultation paper that rules out insolvency for hospital trusts that are failing financially, a move that risks undermining the original concept of what foundation trusts were meant to be and achieve.
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HSJ Knowledge
Preventing NHS data security slip-ups
Simplifying the way users log on to computer networks can help NHS organisations increase their efficiency and improve compliance with data security requirements. Nick Lamidey explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Healthcare providers respond to public reporting
In the wake of health minister Lord Darzi's push for quality measurement as a driver for change, there is already renewed interest in public reporting.