Acute Care – Page 180
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NewsTrust misses urgent cancer wait target for one in five patients
A surge in referrals and lack of capacity saw a large hospital trust miss the two-week cancer wait target by 13 percentage points.
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NewsCall for salary rise for non-foundation trust chairs
A survey of chairs working across the NHS provider sector has found unanimous support for the view that NHS trust chairs are underpaid compared with their foundation trust counterparts.
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HSJ KnowledgeAre patients being heard? The friends and family test reviewed
Study highlights issues with the validity and data
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NewsA&Es miss target for a month
Accident and emergency departments have missed the target to see, treat, admit or discharge 95 per cent of patients within four hours for the fourth week in a row as demand on the service grows.
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NewsDH expects to lose 85 per cent of overseas visitors and migrants costs
The Department of Health expects to recover up to around 15 per cent of the estimated £2bn of costs shouldered by the NHS for overseas visitors and migrants
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NewsHunt: Risk sharing will protect hospitals from better care fund failure
Better care fund plans must share risk between hospitals and commissioners to prevent the acute sector losing out if they fail to deliver, Jeremy Hunt has revealed
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CommentCentralisation is crucial to achieve better care locally
The politics must be taken out of the NHS
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Comment18 weeks targets force pressured trusts into perverse patient scheduling
Patients out of order
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SupplementsHSJ Top Chief Executives: Capturing the zest of the best
How their characteristics mark out these individuals
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NewsConfederation chief calls for 10-year NHS funding settlement
NHS Confederation chief executive Rob Webster has outlined a package of commitments which he wants politicians of all parties to sign up to before the 2015 general election.
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NewsStuart Rose tells NHS leaders: 'Always remember patients come first'
Sir Stuart Rose has told NHS Confederation conference delegates his report on leadership in the NHS will offer “practical and positive” recommendations.
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NewsSix NHS leaders join Confederation board
Six NHS leaders have been appointed as trustees on the NHS Confederation board, it has announced today.
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NewsSecond trust abandons private franchise option
A second district general hospital trust has ruled out being run by a private company under a franchise agreement.
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HSJ KnowledgeA hospital's 'improvement engine' will power it towards the savings required
A thought provoking series on the challenges facing hospital leaders
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HSJ Knowledge
Four hours in A&E: what the target tells us about trusts
Does performance reflect the leadership?
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NewsExclusive: 'Exhausted' inspectors raise concerns about unsustainable CQC regime
Inspectors feel like they are part of a “lynch mob not a serious regulator”, and “used, deflated and exhausted”
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HSJ KnowledgeSenior staff cover means earlier discharges
Equal attention should be paid to evening cover as at weekends
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NewsSmaller trusts outperforming larger counterparts
Smaller trusts are outperforming their larger counterparts on several measures, research by healthcare data company CHKS reveals.
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NewsSimon Stevens' first interview: the transcript
In in HSJ’s in-depth interview, the NHS England chief executive talks about small hospitals, service reform, NHS funding, competition and much more
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NewsAnalysis: What did Stevens really say about small and community hospitals?
Comments by the new NHS England chief executive have been taken as meaning he might preserve small and community hospitals.