All Acute care articles – Page 488
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Fall in Welsh waiting times
The number of people waiting for over eight months for inpatient or day-case treatment in Wales has fallen by 737 over the last quarter - a 10.5 per cent reduction. In outpatients, the number of people waiting over eight months for a first appointment has ...
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Sue Slipman on foundation trusts and the healthcheck ratings
'Having strengthened their financial management without comprising service quality, foundation trusts are now in a position to step up their investment in providing first class patient care'
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Research shows how patient involvement can improve healthcare quality
Involve the patient for better health outcomes and efficiency. That's the strategy suggested by new research from the Health Foundation.
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Major research initiative launched for policy makers and managers
The Health Foundation's five-year, £2.5m QQUIP research initiative to help healthcare policy makers, managers, clinicians, researchers and patient groups to better understand and make informed decisions about how to improve healthcare quality will go online next month.
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New pay-off packages to reflect length of service
New redundancy and retirement packages based on length of service rather than age have been agreed by the Department of Health.
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An online service tailored to your needs
This week, HSJgets personal. Today we have launched a new online service free to registered users of the website, designed to bring you the most relevant content direct to your desktop.
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Unions demand 'decent' pay increase
The 14 unions that make up the NHS Staff Council staff side have blasted a 1.5 per cent pay rise the Department of Health is predicted to propose. In a joint press conference the unions outlined their case for a 'decent' pay rise based on ...
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Boosting nursing numbers could save lives, says RCN
Patients on wards with fewer nurses are more likely to experience complications, according to research launched by the Royal College of Nursing. The research also found that nurses working on wards with lower numbers of nurses are more likely to experience burn out.Read the press release ...
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NHS could save £2.2bn by tackling inefficiency
The NHS could save up to £2.2bn if trusts take steps to address wide variations in productivity and efficiency.The Department of Health has published its Better care, better valueindicators, which show trust-by-trust performance against a range of measures.Reducing unnecessary admissions could unlock £348m, and ...
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Law on assisted dying is 'not working', says charity
A charity campaigning for the legalisation of euthanasia has argued that the UK is failing terminally ill people and their loved ones.On Friday, David March was given a 12-month suspended sentence for helping his wife, who had suffered from multiple sclerosis, to die.Dignity in Dying chief executive Deborah Annetts said ...
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Lord Warner welcomes millionth choose and book referral
More than one million referrals to specialist care have been made through choose and book by GPs across England, health minister Lord Warner has announced.He said 85 per cent of all practices were using the IT system to make referrals, and more than 6,000 practices made referrals last week.Read the ...
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New NI guidance for child death procedures
The Northern Irish Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has published a consultation paper on procedures to be followed in cases of sudden unexpected child deaths.The regional child death review protocol recommends a multi-agency approach to be followed in cases on unexpected deaths of children up to 18 ...
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Private finance guidance for trusts published
New draft guidance which will help NHS trusts select, evaluate and appoint private sector bidders in private finance schemes has been published by the Department of Health.The guidance has been developed in conjunction with the Treasury, private sector contractors and managers of NHS organisations that have been through private finance ...
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Response to NHS charges report
The Department of Health has published its response to July's Commons health select committee report on NHS charging. The response covers charges levied on patients and families for prescription dental charges, sight tests, additional charges for some clinical services, assistance with transport costs and charges ...
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News analysis: Five years and billions of pounds later, what has changed since Wanless?
Sir Derek Wanless's 2002 report prompted the chancellor to pump billions into the health service - but called for reform too. Now he is back to pack another punch by examining how wisely the money was spent and set out lessons for the future. Daniel Martin reports
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Lansley: at-risk hospitals 'better off as charities'
Many community hospitals at risk of closure 'would be better off with charitable status' than remaining in the NHS, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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Food still leaves bad taste in patients' mouths
Almost half of hospital patients supplement their hospital food with offerings brought in by visitors, the biggest survey of its kind has revealed.
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Child visitors face ban
A hospital trust has drawn up contingency plans to severely restrict child visitors if patients are at risk from diarrhoea and vomiting bugs.
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Sharing management between hospital and community
Glaucoma treatment: Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals foundation trust
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Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald on GPs and commissioning
'Strategic health authorities and GPs must represent the best interests of the citizen and patient... However, they face some pretty daunting challenges'