Acute Care – Page 219
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CommentThe NHS has its own currency crisis
The currencies that drive activity and behaviour in the NHS are rooted in the past
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London trusts fare poorly in national hospital patient survey
London is the worst-performing region in England for treating hospital patients with dignity and respect, according to the Care Quality Commission inpatient survey.
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CommentThe ‘new’ NHS and the emergency care challenge
Mark Newbold on the need for a cultural change
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NewsInvolve junior doctors in IT development, conference told
Health service IT managers should draw on the experiences of junior doctors when designing new processes, one such doctor has said.
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CommentStill no change in NHS finance after Francis
The post-Francis world is still worringly ‘business as usual’
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News'Don't think you're different to Mid Staffs staff,' warns Berwick
NHS staff should not be confident they would have acted differently to their counterparts at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, the man leading the government’s post Francis review of patient safety has warned.
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NewsConfed: NHS should avoid administration for trusts
More needs to be done to help financially-troubled hospital trusts before they face going into administration, according to NHS representatives and unions.
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CommentFT mergers and competition: an HSJ Twitter chat
Join us for a discussion on the nature of competition in the NHS
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NewsMid Staffs placed in special administration
Scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been put into special administration by health sector regulator Monitor, it was announced this afternoon.
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NewsChild heart op death rates released
Mortality rates for all children’s heart surgery centres in England have been released following the temporary suspension of operations in Leeds.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: mental health providers for the South East Coast
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing investigates the changing picture of mental health services across the South East Coast region
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NewsKeogh criticises poor data in NHS following Leeds row
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has criticised clinicians and organisations which do not gather or report quality data in the wake of the Leeds children’s heart surgery controversy.
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HSJ LocalHSE launches criminal probe into Mid Staffs patient death
A criminal investigation has been launched by the Health and Safety Executive into the death of a woman at Stafford Hospital in 2007.
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NewsHealth secretary working in hospital A&E
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is working in Watford General Hospital’s accident and emergency department today as part of an initiative to give health ministers and officials frontline experience, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Leeds surgery halt meant 10 children transferred
Ten sick children had to be transferred up to 120 miles from a Leeds paediatric heart unit while surgery was suspended, it has emerged.
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NewsRoyal College voices concerns over UK paediatric services
Hospital care for sick children at weekends and in evenings needs to be better organised to ensure senior staff are available when needed, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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NewsLeeds heart unit campaigners urge for investigation
Campaigners fighting to save the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) have called on health secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch an investigation into the suspension of surgery at the hospital, describing the decision as “NHS politics at its worst”.
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CommentThe NHS must gear up to meet the challenge of workforce planning
Trusts should take a leaf from the car industry