Acute Care – Page 151
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NewsStruggling emergency care systems to get winter buddies
A buddy system for poorly performing urgent and emergency care systems will be introduced this winter in an attempt to help the ‘most challenged’ areas.
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NewsExclusive: NHS Employers lobbies Home Office over immigration rules
Nurses recruited from outside the EU are having their visa applications to work in the NHS rejected and new immigration rules are prompting some NHS nurses to resign, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSurvey: What commissioners want to happen to their unsustainable providers
Most commissioners with unsustainable hospital providers would prefer to see those organisations reform by establishing joint ventures or by joining with GPs, an HSJ survey indicates.
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NewsCCG Barometer: explore the data
Findings from HSJ’s summer 2015 CCG barometer, carried out with Capsticks, which focus on commissioners’ approach to financial problems, and preferred solutions for unsustainable providers.
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NewsCQC to assess whole health systems
The Care Quality Commission is to pilot assessing whole health systems as part of a move towards a more place based approach to regulation.
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HSJ LocalCCG will no longer tender for stroke care pathway
A North Staffordshire clinical commissioning group has said it does not intend to go out to tender for a prime provider to cover stroke care across its region.
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NewsBMA outlines 'three major issues’ over contract changes
The British Medical Association has set out its main concerns over the proposed changes to medical contracts being sought by the government and NHS Employers.
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HSJ LocalCQC warns Mid Essex to improve urgent and emergency services
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust
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CommentWe need clarity around how competition law will affect new care models
The integration agenda
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NewsMonitor: 'We are not telling trusts to stop hiring clinical staff'
Monitor has insisted it is “not telling trusts to stop recruiting clinical staff” in its letter to them outlining emergency measures to try to reduce their deficits.
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NewsProviders ordered to take tough new measures to cut deficits
NHS providers have been told to take a raft of emergency measures to try to reduce the huge deficit predicted by the sector this year.
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HSJ LocalLast Staffordshire trust pulls out of £690m cancer consortium
COMMERCIAL: The main acute provider in Staffordshire has pulled out of a consortium bid to take on a £687m, 10 year prime provider contract for cancer services.
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HSJ LocalMajor teaching hospital names new chief executive
STRUCTURE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust has named its new permanent chief executive following the depature of Tim Smart.
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NewsNew study into impact of staffing levels on patient care
UK researchers are to begin a new study investigating how the provision of nurses in hospitals affects the care and safety of patients.
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NewsNICE makes U-turn over publishing safe staffing guidance
Plans to publish safe nurse staffing guidance for emergency departments have been abandoned in a U-turn by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Eighth trust to leave special measures regime
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has recommended that Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Foundation Trust should come out of special measures.
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NewsExclusive: Hospitals fail to hit staffing targets despite recruitment drive
The ability of NHS acute trusts to employ sufficient numbers of nurses on hospital wards has worsened this year compared with 2014 despite record levels of recruitment, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsInteractive: How your trust is performing on staffing levels
HSJ’s analysis of the proportion of nursing shifts filled according to acute hospitals’ own staffing plans, as reported in the ‘safe staffing’ data collected by NHS England.