Acute Care – Page 193
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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.
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HSJ Local
Hospital to join vascular surgery network
Salisbury District Hospital is to become part of a regional network of specialist centres for vascular surgery.
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HSJ Local
North Middlesex expands A&E as Chase Farm's closes
North Middlesex University Hospital Trust has expanded its accident and emergency department to meet increased demand after nearby Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E closed at the beginning of last month.
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CommentMark Newbold: Whole system transformation must be our priority
Solve the issues behind emergency pressures
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HSJ KnowledgeBest of 2013: Leadership and NHS governance
What has changed since the Francis and Keogh reports?
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News
George Eliot contenders announced
The five contenders through to the next stage of the competition to take over George Eliot Hospital Trust have been announced.