Acute Care – Page 192
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NewsWoman's fight over partner's sperm
A woman has launched a legal battle for the right to “harvest” her seriously-ill partner’s sperm so that she can have his children.
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NewsExclusive: Consecutive years of productivity growth achieved
There have been two consecutive years of productivity growth in the NHS for the first time since the late 1990s, according to research shared exclusively with HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Trust plans to borrow £36m for A&E expansion
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust plans to borrow up to £36m to fund the expansion of Leicester Royal Infirmary’s accident and emergency department.
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NewsExclusive: Non-acute providers allege institutional bias
Healthcare leaders from across the community and mental health sectors have united against plans to cut the tariff price for their services by a fifth more than the reduction proposed for acute providers.
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NewsTreat patients in ambulances - MP
More patients should be treated in the back of ambulances rather than taken to hospital, MPs have heard.
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NewsA&E locum costs soar 60pc in three years
The cost of paying temporary doctors to work at accident and emergency units in England increased by 60 per cent in three years as hospitals struggle to find permanent staff.
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HSJ KnowledgeHospitals have big plans for 2014
The year ahead will see trusts battling to balance care reform with stringent finances
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NewsExclusive: Conservative peer appointed Monitor's interim chair
The government has appointed Conservative peer and former minister Baroness Hanham as the interim chair of health sector regulator Monitor.
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NewsClinicians 'must say sorry for errors', says Hunt
Doctors and nurses should be honest when things go wrong and “say sorry” to patients, according to the health secretary.
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HSJ KnowledgeSeven day services: An alternative perspective
An alternative view of seven day services
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NewsNHS data move opt-out 'damaging'
It would be “enormously damaging” if patients decided to opt out of the new NHS data mining scheme, leading medical charities have warned.
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HSJ Local
Trust admits it wrongly reported same sex compliance
PERFORMANCE: Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust has notified regulators that it has been failing standards on same sex accommodation for more than two years, despite reporting compliance.
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LeaderIt is time to bring social care spending in from the cold
Remove the artificial barriers between health and social care
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CommentIdentifying the members of the A&E frequent flyers club
Some patients attend emergency units more than 10 times a year
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy services aren’t working seven days a week
The challenges and changes needed to make seven day working in the NHS work
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NewsA&Es meet four-hour target
Accident and emergency departments together managed to meet the four hour waiting time target between October and December, according to NHS England data.
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NewsGovernment offers £10m boost for maternity units
Hospitals are to be given millions of pounds to help spruce up their maternity wards, the Department of Health has announced.
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NewsRepeat patients add to A&E pressure
A small group of NHS patients are adding to pressures on accident and emergency departments by going to casualty dozens of times a year, according to an investigation by the BBC.
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NewsRichards: compassion 'alive and well' in NHS
Compassion in the NHS is “alive and well”, according to England’s chief inspector of hospitals.