All Acute care articles – Page 489
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Social services cash crisis will add to acute bed woes
The Registered Nursing Homes Association has written to the candidates of all the major political parties warning that shortfalls in social services finances will mean that many elderly people 'will get stuck in acute hospital beds for weeks on end because there are no nursing home places available to which ...
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SHORTCUTS: Opponent of acute services shake-up to stand as MP
Campaigners who opposed a major acute services shake-up in Kidderminster are to stand a candidate in the general election. Health Concern - the group that currently holds 18 of the 42 seats on Wyre Forest district council - is to stand Dr Richard Taylor against sitting Labour MP David Lock ...
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Trusts' debts threaten Scottish acute review
Implementation of reviews of acute services across Scotland may be threatened by the escalating debt faced by many trusts.
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Publicly funded schemes losing more acute beds than PFI deals
More acute beds have been lost in publicly financed hospital building projects than in private finance initiative deals, NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates has claimed.
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Mental health 'czar'demands zero suicides on acute wards
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has ordered the NHS to take 'immediate action' to meet targets for zero suicides on acute psychiatric wards by the end of March 2002.
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Not just acute idea
The private finance initiative's sphere of influence is spreading far beyond the acute hospitals of the first wave - a trend further boosted by the NHS plan. Seamus Ward reports
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Acute pressure begins to build as Hutt issues winter advice
Welsh trusts were running at full capacity last week as guidance aimed at relieving acute pressures next winter was issued by health secretary Jane Hutt.
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Review for NI acute services
An independent review of acute hospital services in Northern Ireland is underway as part of a plan to develop health and personal social services published this week.
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Move to strip out acute services early
Worcester Acute Hospitals trust has moved to strip Kidderminster General Hospital of its acute inpatient services up to two years earlier than planned in an apparent bid to outfox campaigners opposed to the move.
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CHI pilot volunteers ruled out in favour of 'typical acute services'
All 10 trusts that volunteered to be the first inspected by the Commission for Health Improvement have been ruled out as pilot sites for the organisation's clinical governance reviews.
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Acute beds on the up - or the down
Acute bed numbers could be increased by 35,000 in the next 20 years - or cut by 23,000 - according to a longawaited report by the government's national beds inquiry.
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Short Cuts: Sheffield acute trusts announce plans for merger
Sheffield's two acute trusts have announced merger plans. Central Sheffield University Hospitals trust and Northern General Hospital trust will forward a joint recommendation for merger from 1 April to health secretary Alan Milburn. A joint statement said this was the 'natural way forward' for the two trusts and would allow ...
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Withdrawal of acute services caused problems at other units
The gradual reduction in services and eventual closure of Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, caused major problems for hospitals in south and west London, according to a report for Wandsworth council by London Health Emergency.
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Short cuts HAs' reviews of acute services point to cost-cutting
Three-quarters of health authorities in England and Wales have undertaken a recent review of acute services without official instruction from the Department of Health, according to an unpublished NHS Support Federation survey of directors of public health. Only 10 per cent of HAs carrying out a review had a budget ...
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'Largest' network links acute sites
North Essex health authority has ordered the largest 'community of interest network' yet to be built in England.
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Huge NI hospital shake-up in bid to secure future of acute service
A radical shake-up of Northern Ireland's hospitals has been launched by the government in a bid to end uncertainty about the future of acute services.