All Acute care articles – Page 439
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Media Watch
There's a whiff of former health secretary Patricia Hewitt's infamous map of NHS-trouble-spots-which-could-cost-Labour-MPs-their-seats to the weekend's coverage of service changes in Greater Manchester.
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Visa rules could slow recruitment
Plans to restrict the number of foreign midwives on 'fast track' visas will thwart the government's pledge to drastically improve maternity care, campaigners are claiming.
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HSJ Knowledge
Day-case rates on nationwide increase
Research by Dr Foster and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement analyses productivity savings across a range of areas including reductions in emergency admissions, statin prescribing and increases in day-case rates. For the latter, the most recent quarter shows a saving of £12m, down from £16m in quarter 1 ...
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Lean principles
Lean working principles have enabled Airedale General Hospital cut referal to diagnosis times for suspected bowel cancer patients.Developed by staff at Airedale NHS Trust, the project saw the Lean Healthcare Academy, based at Airedale General Hospital, West Yorkshire, working with its founding partner, The Virtual College in Ilkley, to streamline ...
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Academic health science centre gets go-ahead
TheUK’s first academic health science centre has been given the green light by health secretary Alan Johnson.
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Nursing council publishes fitness to practise report
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has published its annual fitness to practise report for 2005-06.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improvements in heart attack treatment
The Information Centre for health and social care has welcomed the publication of the fifth Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project.
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Andrew Castle on the perfect process
'Just knowing what should be happening, or what we think is happening, does not help us make informed decisions'
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Green shoots of recovery
In the last of our series on organisational turnaround, we peer through the breaks in the clouds around two once-troubled trusts
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Scotland on target for cardiac waiting times
New figures show that NHS Scotland is on track to meet the 16-week waiting time target for heart patients.
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Manchester reconfiguration decision
Two hospital reconfigurations in Greater Manchester have been given the go-ahead by the independent reconfiguration panel.
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Conservatives pledge to save district generals
The Conservatives have pledged to save the district general hospital, in what is being widely seen as an opening salvo in the run-up to a possible autumn snap election.
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Exclusive: NHS gets first medical director as Sir Liam's role is scaled back
Leading cardiac surgeon and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed as the Department of Health's medical director, HSJ has learnt.
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Exclusive: NHS gets first medical director as Sir Liam's role is scaled back
Leading cardiac surgeon and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed as the Department of Health's medical director, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: when your private life isn't so private
Employees whose out-of-hours activities compromise their employer's reputation could face serious consequences, writes Claire Reynolds
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Hospital health advice and toolkit
Cheshire and Merseyside Partnerships for Health, the public health network forCheshireand Merseyside, has added two useful documents to its page.
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Sexual health courses in London
The South West London HIV and GUM clinical services network will be holding two-day sexual health courses in the coming months.
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Success Through Partnership conference
Presentations from the Success Through Partnership health and travel conference, held in May at Nottingham University Hospitals trust, are now available to download from the website of Spokes, the NHS Cycling Network.Click here to read the presentations
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health and care trusts directory published
A complete guide to all mental health trusts and care trusts, with contact details and names of chairs and chief executives, has been added to the NHS Network Contacts Directory. The directory already includes similar guides to acute trusts, primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.Click here for more information
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Acutes slipping on A&E target
An increasing number of hospital trusts are moving further away from the Department of Health's high-profile accident and emergency waiting time target.