All Acute care articles – Page 472
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Comment
Simon Stevens on engagement and alienation
'Clinical engagement has to be approached critically. It cannot be pursued as an end in its own right'
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News
Air ambulance charities hope for NHS cash
Air ambulance charities believe the NHS is ready to recognise the role they could play in improving emergency care - and that funding for improved services could be on the cards.
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News
Helpline aims for foundation trust status
NHS Direct has become a trust under the Department of Health's review of arm's-length bodies.
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Comment
Forging ahead with lessons from the future
Imagine being able to see the future and assess health needs and the repercussions of policy initiatives. Windmill 2007 did that and found some valuable pointers, as Alasdair Liddell and colleagues explain
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HSJ Knowledge
Live and direct - how five got ahead
HSJ's GM Live events provided an unprecedented opportunity for trusts not only to share best practice, but to see the benefits for themselves. Alexis Nolan reports
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News
Doctors agree to take policy bull by horns
Senior doctors are planning to develop their own policy framework for the future of the NHS, as part of an attempt to re-engage clinicians with the changes being made to the health service.
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News
Agency to aid foundation bids in London
London's 34 non-foundation provider organisations will be performance managed by a new agency to help them push towards foundation status.
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Comment
The age of uncertainty: new Audit Commission chair speaks out
New Audit Commission chair Michael O'Higgins has a lot on his plate as he waits for the health regulatory review and oversees the transition to a new inspection era ushered in by the local government white paper
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News
Future of London chief up in the air after Nicholson appointment
The post of chief executive of the NHS in London could be re-advertised following David Nicholson's appointment as NHS chief executive.
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News
Apology after appointments code breach
The NHS Appointments Commission breached the code of openness and transparency in its controversial appointment of a chair for NHS London.
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HSJ Knowledge
Data briefing: what affects same-day discharge rates?
Over recent years there has been a growing trend in the number of non-elective patients discharged on the same day as they were admitted.
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News
East Sussex A&E proposals criticised by local MPs
Trust considers alternating emergency care service between hospitals
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Comment
Data briefing: the truth behind the A&E target
A recent analysis from Les Mayhew and David Smith at City University's Cass Business School has suggested some theoretical reasons - backed by data - why achievement of the accident and emergency maximum four-hour wait by 98 per cent of hospitals was probably not all it seemed.
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News
Scottish government reverses A&E closures
Two Scottish health boards have been given until the end of the year to come up with revised proposals after the new Scottish National Party government overturned decisions to close accident and emergency departments.
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News
NHS and politics inseparable, says PM adviser
An NHS independent of politics and politicians is 'a chimera' and risks undermining its tax-funded base, Professor Paul Corrigan, health adviser to the prime minister, told a King's Fund debate last week.
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HSJ Knowledge
Sheffield makes advance in endoscopic practice
In many cases patients with suspected early stage bowel cancer face the prospect of major surgery, intensive care and considerable changes to their lifestyle.
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News
Variation in A&E admissions
Across England the rise in emergency admissions to hospital shows no sign of abating. Alongside it, bed days also continue to rise. The year-on-year rise in emergency admissions in the first quarter of 2006 was 7 per cent, while the corresponding rise in bed days was 5.9 per cent.
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Comment
What's driving the admissions rise
In last week's Data Briefing I raised some issues about the increase in emergency admissions to acute hospitals over the last five years. The increase has primarily been in accident and emergency, and there has been a dramatic increase in the number of patients turned around on the day. While ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Data briefing: cutting emergency admissions
Recent data briefings have presented trends in emergency admission rates per strategic health authority and the national picture remains very variable. This data briefing presents a case study from one trust and its experience of the practical issues in reducing such rates.
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HSJ Knowledge
Admissions: cutting excess bed days
Avoiding hospital admissions and reducing stays are ongoing priorities for primary care and acute trusts.