All Acute care articles – Page 470
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CommentBrown's equality drive must begin at birth
More low-weight babies are born in Britain than anywhere else in Europe. This should be at the front of the next prime minister’s mind as he strives to give every child an equal chance, says Louise Bamfield
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Hammersmith Hospitals trust to cut beds
A leading teaching hospital has warned employees that a programme of service redesign will mean treating fewer patients, in fewer beds, with fewer staff.
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Comment
MALCOLM LOWE-LAURI on Boards and Barricades
The best boards are where the debate involves all the players, is messy but retains a sense of form
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News
Balance shift tariff pledge
The next 12 months will be a 'difficult' time for the NHS as it tries to get to grips with a tariff system that is still 'unbalanced', the NHS chief executive has admitted.
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Community hospital cash depends on 'local backing'
The Department of Health wants acute and primary care trusts to use a series of 'marketing tactics' in consulting local populations on the future of community hospitals.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on going back to the floor
There's often no holding back. I got short shrift once from the cardiac nurses over agency staff policy.
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Time to tear ourselves away from paper
Trusts' reluctance to store patient records electronically is a national scandal which is draining resources, harming patient care and limiting the potential of historical archives, argues Capita's Robert McIndoe
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Audit Commission and NAO calls for debt bail-outs
Ministers should reconsider their decision not to bail out trusts with historic deficits, a report by the Audit Commission and National Audit Office has recommended.
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Service redesign 'needs scrutiny', says Audit Commission
Local government must have a stronger voice in service redesign and commissioning decisions to ensure the public's concerns are heard by the NHS, according to Audit Commission chair Sir Michael Lyons.
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National Audit Office scopes study on NHS complaints
The National Audit Office is considering carrying out an inquiry into the NHS complaints system following concerns about the steep rise in the number of grievances referred to the Healthcare Commission.
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Laura Donnelly on the art of delegation
'If ministers want a decent view, they need to stand back'
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Data briefing: How length of stay varies by SHA area
There is growing demand for new and innovative indicators to measure variations in performance between acute trusts. Length of stay measures include indicators of excess bed days, analysis over time and giving lengths of stay for specific diagnoses or procedures.
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Hewitt has no 'vested interest' in approving reconfigurations
Patricia Hewitt does not have a 'vested political interest' in settling reconfiguration rows in favour of trusts, the health minister responsible for patient involvement has insisted.
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Foundation trust defers application
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has deferred its foundation trust application because of continuing uncertainty over the payment by results tariff for specialist services.
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John Appleby: New thinking on health variations
Arguments about what we get for our billions of NHS pounds rumble on. The Department of Health's latest analysis - noted here last month - claims the extra billions have essentially been spent on extra staff. We could take it to be a good thing - if the job of ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Stronger links between annual health check and peer review
Links between peer review and the annual health check are to be strengthened, following discussions between the Health Commission and Information Centre.
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Anna Donald on doctors' motives
'The NHS needs doctors firing on all cylinders, not retreating to their duvets'
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Anna Donald on consumer information
'Patients must indeed be patient. The term 'patient-led' invites disbelief that patients are going to lead the NHS'
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Anna Donald on lessons from Australia
'The NHS can't avoid political controversy, because what it does is too important, complex, and subject to debate'
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Anna Donald on turning cogs in a blancmange
'Most doctors would struggle to conceive of a hospital in anything other than descriptive terms'