Acute Care – Page 197
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News£150m funding for A&Es to ease winter pressures
NHS England today confirmed £150m will be taken from its expected surplus to ease winter pressures on more accident and emergency departments this year.
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NewsLondon given until 2014-15 to meet emergency and maternity standards
Clinical commissioning groups in London have given their providers until April 2014 to meet new quality standards in emergency and maternity services.
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HSJ LocalAmbitious plan seeks to reduce admissions by 12,000
An ambitious project has been launched in Staffordshire in an attempt to reduce the level of non-elective admissions to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire by almost 12,000 over the next three years.
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NewsDelays 'harm brain bleed patients'
Patients suffering a brain haemorrhage could be unnecessarily harmed due to delays in diagnosis and treatment - especially at weekends and out of hours, a report says.
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News'No improvement' in patient safety
Hospitals have made “no improvement” in monitoring the quality of patient care in light of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal and “no improvement” in keeping patients safe or treating them with dignity, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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CommentIntegration fund is biggest worry for finance directors
Practical implications of £3.8bn fund cause concern
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Revealed: the 24 CCGs forecasting deficits in their first year
There are now clinical commissioning groups expecting to finish their first year of operation in the red in each of the four English NHS regions, figures shared exclusively with HSJ reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhen an inspector calls: CQC hospital inspection programme under way
Mike Richards has started his new hospital inspections regime
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NewsControversial radiotherapy on offer to patients again
Cancer patients who were denied access to a cutting edge therapy under NHS England’s specialised commissioning policies will be able to access it again if they agree to take part in a clinical trial.
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NewsNHS 'wasted £40m' on utility bills
The NHS in England wasted more than £40m last year by paying too much for its energy and water, the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group has claimed.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: A&Es to receive extra £150m to ease winter pressures
A second wave of winter pressure funding is to be made available for all accident and emergency departments, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsTrusts 'not meeting operation guidelines'
A number of hospitals in England are not carrying out sufficient abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs to meet safety guidelines, health care analysts have warned.
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HSJ Knowledge#StopPUDay2013: a million tweets for hospital transformation
#StopPUDay2013: eliminating avoidable pressure ulcers
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NewsFrancis response: New patient safety drive from NHS England
A major patient safety improvement programme and new incident report and alert systems are to be introduced by NHS England in response to the Francis inquiry.
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NewsCQC to oversee barring scheme for directors
The Care Quality Commission is to get power to investigate board directors of all NHS providers to establish whether they are “fit” to hold the position, it has been announced.
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NewsLawyer warns of creating 'a new industry'
“A new industry of internal investigation” could be created by plans to strip trusts of their government indemnity cover if they break duty of candour rules, a lawyer has warned.
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NewsUpdated: trusts face new wilful neglect offence
Hospital managers and non-clinicians could be drawn into the scope of a new criminal offence of wilful neglect and abuse of patients along with their organisation, it has emerged.
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NewsGovernment accepts all but nine Francis recommendations
The government has at least partially accepted all but nine of Robert Francis QC’s 290 recommendations to improve care in the NHS, it has announced.
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NewsBureaucracy burden 'bigger' than previously thought
National bodies should reduce the amount of data they collect from NHS providers by 10 per cent over the next two years and contribute to the cost of any new information requests, a review of bureaucracy in the NHS is set to say.
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NewsMaternity services 'run deficit'
Many of England’s maternity services run at a deficit and have to be subsidised by other departments, the Foundation Trust Network has told MPs.