Acute Care – Page 209
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NewsBerwick dashes hopes on minimum staffing levels
The Berwick review into patient safety has stopped short of recommending a minimum safe staffing level for NHS hospital wards.
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NewsBerwick: Staff responsible for neglect should face jail
NHS staff should face jail in cases of “neglect or wilful misconduct”, the high profile review tasked with making zero harm care a reality in the NHS has recommended.
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HSJ Local
Medical director quits Royal Cornwall board
A top consultant has quit a hospital trust’s governing board as an inquiry linked to a surgeon accused of botching dozens of operations is due to start.
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CommentDoctors will solve the A&E crisis, not locums
The balance of emergency staff needs to be addressed
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NewsCouncil leader proposes alternative rescue plan for Mid Staffs
Staffordshire Council’s leader has proposed an alternative model for the future of the county’s health economy to the one recommended by Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust’s special administrators.
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NewsProton cancer therapy coming to UK
Cancer patients who currently travel abroad for a special type of radiotherapy will be able to get it in the UK from 2018.
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HSJ KnowledgeImage management: handling rising demand for diagnostics
How to stop the whole hospital slowing down
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NewsSpecial administrator recommends dissolving Mid Staffs
The special administrators appointed to Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have recommended the organisation is dissolved and its maternity service closes.
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NewsHigh Court quashes Lewisham downgrade decision
The decision to downgrade services at Lewisham Hospital has been quashed in the High Court.
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CommentMoney doesn't equal power to patients
Provider compensation for missing waiting targets will not ‘empower’ patients
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HSJ Local
Administrators' Mid Staffs plan to be revealed
Campaigners fighting to save a scandal-hit hospital will learn administrators’ recommendations about the future of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsFirst national friends and family test scores due
A new test designed to shine the spotlight on poor care has found some “shocking and eye opening” cases of maltreatment in NHS hospitals, reports suggest.
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NewsPush for payment by results reform gathers pace
NHS England wants to investigate the scope for scrapping payment by results for some services as early as 2015-16, its director of strategic finance has told HSJ.
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NewsDH to target 'huge waste' in orthopaedics procurement
The Department of Health is expected to target “huge waste” in the cost of orthopaedic supplies when it releases its procurement strategy shortly, HSJ has learned.
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NewsBullying 'entrenched' at CQC
Senior health and social care professionals who join the Care Quality Commission are more likely to be subject to bullying than other employees, an internal review commissioned by the regulator has found.
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NewsOnly 3pc get best head cancer care
Just 3.1 per cent of head and neck cancer patients in England receive the “ideal patient pathway”, an audit examining seven key aspects of care has suggested.
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HSJ KnowledgeA modern health service needs the third sector
Charities are well equipped to drive change in the NHS
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NewsGrant 'worried' by hospital death claims
The chair of the independent board created by the government to run the NHS was “worried” by incorrect claims about hospital deaths surrounding the publication of the Keogh mortality review, he revealed to HSJ.
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NewsMPs criticise Lansley reforms over A&E problems
The Commons health committee has put part of the blame for recent accident and emergency performance on Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms.
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NewsSome commissioners setting 'unachievable' targets, NHS England admits
NHS England is floating the possibility of scrapping the complex array of financial penalties and incentives currently imposed on NHS providers and replacing them, from 2015-16, with a single pay-for-performance premium.