Acute Care – Page 183
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CommentCCGs should authorise 18-week target breaches
We must make sure a good crisis does not go to waste
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HSJ KnowledgeAll in a day's work: the drive for better ambulatory care
Make same-day care the default option
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NewsNHS technology funding faces £60m shortfall
A £500m technology fund set up by NHS England to help hospitals move away from paper based systems appears to have been slashed by £60m, official documents suggest.
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BlogsThe better care fund fiasco
Taking money from hospitals and giving it to local authorities is unlikely to improve working relationships
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HSJ KnowledgeLocal government and the NHS: Finding the way to work together
NHS transformation leaders must get local politicians on side
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NewsData video: specialised commissioning overspend tops £450m
HSJ senior correspondent Sarah Calkin explains NHS England’s specialised commissioning overspend
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NewsFall in public satisfaction with emergency departments
Public satisfaction with accident and emergency services dipped to a five-year low in 2013, according to the latest British Social Attitudes survey.
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HSJ KnowledgeViolence in A&E: the zero tolerance myth
Attacks on staff are causing a recruitment crisis
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Comment'England is stuck with complex and perverse waiting times targets'
The government won’t fix this system
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CommentQuality and safety must determine our targets
Rob Findlay’s analysis of issues around the 18-week waiting standard is timely.
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NewsExclusive: Post-Francis recruitment surge welcomed by minister
Exclusive: The recent and continuing surge in new NHS posts for nursing and other frontline roles has been welcomed by health minister Dan Poulter as the “right thing to do” in response to the Mid-Staffordshire scandal.
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NewsSpecialist hospitals fear NHS England centralisation plans
Specialist hospitals have urged NHS England to re-think its “one-size-fits-all” approach to centralising specialised acute services because it puts their independence at risk.
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NewsExclusive: Later arrival at hospital means staying for days longer, analysis shows
Being admitted to hospital a few hours later in the day often means patients spending several days longer on wards, according to new analysis shared with HSJ.
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HSJ KnowledgeThat’ll be the day: make Change Day a platform for transformation
Learning lessons from NHS Change Day
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NewsStevens sets out alternative approach to small hospitals
Merger or closure of small hospitals might not be the best way forward for an already “centralised” English NHS
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HSJ PartnersHow to keep terminally ill people out of hospital: what you said
Providing more care at home
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NewsMid Staffs fined over 'avoidable' death
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been fined £200,000 for the “wholly avoidable” death of a diabetic patient.
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HSJ KnowledgeCare in the community: is the rhetoric wrong?
Find ways to support people where it matters