Acute Care – Page 376
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BlogsWhat went wrong at Mid Staffs?
Yet again we have a badly under-performing hospital, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of, mainly elderly, patients.
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Economic downturn forces many PCTs to rewrite funding forecasts
Primary care trusts are having to redraft their five year strategic plans because of out of date assumptions about funding in 2011-12.
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Just 299 comment on Department of Health quality metrics
Just 299 people and organisations responded to an NHS survey on which metrics should be used to measure quality of care.
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Care Quality Commission rules lack teeth on patient experience
Proposed registration rules for NHS providers are “far too weak” to make sure they take account of patient experience, the Picker Institute has warned.
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NewsFour foundation trusts on alert for hygiene failures
Four foundation trusts have had their governance ratings set to amber and been ordered to comply with hygiene standards after failing to meet the criteria for full registration with the Care Quality Commission.
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CommunityMedia Watch: hospital parking charges report
The measured reasoning of the NHS Confederation’s hospital parking charges report is failing to quell a mini rebellion in Lancashire.
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Foundation trust fights London centralisation
A London foundation trust is rallying members to help protect services against centralisation.
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NewsCan integrated care usher in a new age of risk taking?
A speedy selection process has led to 16 projects being picked for integrated care pilots. Can they improve quality and test bold ideas or have we seen it all before, asks Helen Crump
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VAT changes prompt concern over NHS staff costs
Tax changes have sparked fears NHS trusts will be hit with significant increases in agency staff costs.
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London ambulance service chair to step down
The chair of the London Ambulance Service trust is to step down after 10 years in the post.
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NHS Confederation outlines principles for fair car parking fees
A cancer charity has slammed the NHS Confederation’s position on hospital car parking fees as “morally wrong”.
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Child diabetes figure 'higher than expected'
A national survey has found that almost 23,000 children and young people in England have diabetes.
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Sir Ian Kennedy sets record straight on Mid Staffordshire
Sir Ian Kennedy has written to the chair of the House of Commons health select committee to correct “misunderstandings” over the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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Dumfries and Galloway reconfiguration plans face independent review
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has commissioned an independent review into reconfiguration proposals in the rural areas of Dumfries and Galloway.
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MPs launch inquiry into cancer treatment inequality
MPs are to launch an inquiry into “postcode lotteries” in cancer treatment.
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NewsCare Quality Commission names trusts registered with conditions
Four foundation trusts and six primary care trusts are among the 21 organisations that have failed to assure the new regulator they are meeting infection control standards.
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Super trusts to join up acute and primary care
Academic health science centres should lead to better integration of primary and secondary care, leaders of two of London’s centres believe.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeliver dignity with single sex wards
With the health secretary effectively fining hospitals that are still using mixed sex wards from 2010, action is needed now to segregate patients says Daloni Carlisle
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NewsInfections fines may put Leeds trust at risk of financial deficit
Leeds Teaching Hospitals could be the first trust to fall into deficit because of fines levied by the primary care trust for failure to bring hospital infections under control.
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LeaderNo excuses in this new era of regulation
With the Care Quality Commission going live next Wednesday, the Healthcare Commission has published a swathe of reports before its demise.