All Acute care articles – Page 483
-
News
Hit squads set to swoop over Scottish cancer targets
Cancer hit squads are to be sent into Scottish NHS boards to ensure that targets on waiting times are met.
-
News
Comment: Why a US management guru has vital questions for the NHS
'Michael Porter's book has caught the imagination of many of the most influential voices in NHS reform and has been occupying minds at the highest level throughout this year.'
-
News
Become a 'dignity in care' champion
The Department of Health has written to all strategic health authorities, local authorities and primary care trusts asking them to raise the profile of treating people receiving care services with dignity and to encourage local people to sign up as champions to spread best practice.Read more ...
-
News
Northern Ireland surgical waiting times falling
Health minister Paul Goggins has announced that the number of people waiting six months for surgery at the end of September was 3,786, a drop of 1,358 (26.4 per cent) on the previous quarter. The number of people waiting six months for outpatient appointments fell by 11,168 over the same ...
-
News
Hospital campaigns could cause 1,000 unnecessary deaths: think tank
The Institute for Public Policy Research has concluded that campaigns to save services currently provided in district general hospitals could lead to more than 1,000 unnecessary deaths a year.Associate director Richard Brookes said: 'On the strength of the evidence, people should be out on the streets campaigning for changes to ...
-
News
Czars make case for service reconfiguration
National director for emergency access Sir George Alberti has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration of access to emergency care services. And national director for heart disease and stroke Professor Roger Boyle has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration in heart disease ...
-
HSJ Knowledge
The future of the NHS complaints procedure
Reforms to the complaints process are intended to produce a fundamental shift away from attributing blame. Tony Yeaman explains
-
News
Independent centre deals abandoned
The Department of Health is set to abandon a large swathe of its independent treatment centre programme more than a year after it invited providers to bid for the lucrative deals, HSJhas learned.
-
Comment
Neil Goodwin on Serbian princes and American cousins
'Mixing with Europeans always reminds me how European we are in the UK and how much less we have in common with the USA'
-
Comment
Bed day costs
The Department of Health productivity indicators (click herefor story) detail how much each trust can save by reducing bed stay.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Lyn Whitfield on big government
'Neither doctors nor the public seem convinced of the need for the national database element'
-
News
I'm a celebrity, I love it here
Trusts will be able to spend as much as they like on advertising under a draft code of practice proposed by the Department of Health this week. Hospitals could also use celebrity patients to endorse their services.
-
News
Conservatives slam A&E closure threat
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has warned that Labour has not disclosed the evidence behind the proposed closure of 29 accident and emergency departments.He said the closures were being driven by deficits and has written to NHS chief executive David Nicholson to ask him if the government will give patients ...
-
News
Monitor announces two more foundation trusts
King's College Hospital trust and North Hampshire Hospitals trust have been authorised for foundation trust status by regulator Monitor.The announcement takes the total number of foundations to 54 with a combined annual income of £10.81bn.Read the press release here
-
News
Stroke group launches guidance on emergency care
A group of experts on stroke has published information on treating stoke and transient ischaemic attack.The guidelines provide explicit recommendations for practising clinicians, managers, patients and carers about the recognition and emergency management of suspected stroke and TIA, from the onset of symptoms to acute intervention in accident and emergency ...
-
News
King's Fund probes maternity services
The King's Fund is to conduct an inquiry into the safety of maternity services in England.The year-long investigation will look at the safety record of maternity services and where progress has been made, and will flag up areas of concern.Read the press release here
-
HSJ Knowledge
Improving the use of temporary nursing staff in acute and foundation trusts
Improving the use of temporary nursing staff in NHS acute and foundation trusts
-
News
HR high impact changes: An evidence based resource
HR high impact changes: An evidence based resource