All Acute care articles – Page 427
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Infection control: we are here for the patients, not targets
The Healthcare Commission's damning investigation into outbreaks of Clostridium difficile at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust drives home the message of its report last week on the lack of engagement of some acute trust boards with what is happening on their wards.
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Conservatives defend district general pledge
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has defended the Conservative party's pledge to 'save' district general hospitals.
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Healthcare Commission lists a catalogue of failings in handling of C difficile outbreaks
A Kent trust has been slated by the Healthcare Commission for failing to protect patients against infection.
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SHAs warned over weak foundation trust applications
The Department of Health has issued a stark warning to strategic health authority chiefs to send 'only the strongest' trusts to Monitor to be assessed for foundation status.
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BMA dubious about screening every patient
The British Medical Association has called for 'hard data' on the effectiveness of screening all hospital admissions for MRSA.
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Online resources for healthy workplaces
Stuart Shepherd dips into NHS Employers' latest update of The Healthy Workplaces Handbook, also known as the 'Blue Book' – and now also available online
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The seven failings of really useless leaders
Professional development gurus have identified all the pitfalls for aspiring great leaders and put them into a book. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Chief executive steps down
The chief executive of Barking, Redbridge and Havering NHS Trust has stepped down just a week after asking staff to come up with cost-cutting ideas to save£10m.A statement from the trust said Mr Rees, who has been chief executive for four years, had decided that this was 'the right moment ...
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Leadership: what not to do
Management development gurus have written a motivational book of 'what not to do' for would-be great leaders, writes Stuart Shepherd
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Occupational health: making workplaces healthy
The latest edition of the NHS's guidance on healthy workplace practices is a greatly expanded resource, reports Stuart Shepherd
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Service design: how does it feel to be our patient?
An unusual change project drafted in anthropologists to explore patients' experiences. Stuart Shepherd takes a look
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Ken Jarrold on giving constructive feedback
If press reports are to be believed it will not be long before information about the performance of individual surgeons of all specialties is in the public domain. I am sure the royal colleges are preparing members for this major change of culture and practice and the rest of us ...
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Good corporate citizenship
Winner Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustGood Corporate CitizenHolistic and happening was how the judges described good corporate citizenship atNottingham, a trust where the chief executive chaired the environment group and has sustainability as one of his five key priorities.The panel appreciated that the trust has a real understanding of how ...
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David Praill on access to pain relief
According to our report Access to Pain Relief – an essential human right, published this week to mark World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on 6 October, 80 per cent of the world’s cancer sufferers have no access to pain relief. This means 7 per cent of the world's population ...
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Leicester interim chief
An interim chief executive is to be paid£33,000 a month to run a hospital trust – thought to be one of the highest salaries the NHS has ever offered.Consultant Derek Smith, brought in at University Hospital of Leicester trust following the resignation of Peter Reading last month, is to be ...
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Hygiene: staff won't follow where they are not led
After the years of media scrutiny, policy statements, regulations, inspections and public outcry - not to mention the avoidable deaths and illnesses - it is hard to comprehend why many acute trust boards are failing to make hygiene standards a priority.
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Maternity death rates worsening for poorer mums
Maternity mortality rates have increased, the maternity services czar has revealed.
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Money for nothing in the ISTC labour crisis
They were meant to cut waiting times for routine operations, but independent sector treatment centres continue to go under-used while primary care trusts foot the bill. Alison Moore reports
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Healthcare Commission finds hygiene code is 'not hitting the headlines' in acute trusts
Acute trust boards are not taking enough responsibility for controlling infection in their hospitals, the healthcare watchdog has warned.Spot checks on 43 hospitals by the Healthcare Commission have revealed concerns that boards are not regularly discussing opportunities for improvement or ensuring infection control data is analysed effectively.
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Academic health science centre launched
Imperial College Healthcare trust, the UK's first academic health science centre, was launched on Monday.