Acute Care – Page 419
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Ali Mohammed on job satisfaction
What makes you get up and come to work each day? Is it the challenge of the job? The working conditions? Recent Department of Health research suggests 10 usual suspects as answers, including 'having the skills and equipment needed to do my job', 'being treated with respect, trusted and listened ...
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Solutions for reducing length of stay
The NHS could save up to £400m a year in length-of-stay costs with some simple measures, argues Andrew Webb
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Dixon warns of 'two-tiers' risk in latest operating framework
The NHS Alliance has warned the operating framework issued in December could lead to a 'two tier' NHS as it exempts foundation trusts from tighter quality standards expected of other hospital trusts.
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Audit Commission finds payment coding errors
Inaccurate payment by results coding by hospitals has led to primary care trusts being overcharged by as much as 6 per cent, the Audit Commission has found.
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Undercapacity to blame for cancelled operations in Worcester
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals trust has been forced to cancel more elective surgery than other trusts because the area has lost more acute beds than anywhere else in the country, according to the local MP.
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Trusts urged to recruit anti-infection staff
Hospitals have been pressed to employ up to five extra specialist staff as part of a government strategy to improve infection control.The government has set aside up to £45m to be invested in the scheme, out of a £270m fund identified in the comprehensive spending review for reducing healthcare-acquired infections.
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Hospitals' teamwork saves lives at Marsden
When fire ripped through the Royal Marsden specialist cancer hospital in west London last week, the first phone call was to the fire brigade and the second to the Royal Brompton heart and lung hospital around the corner.
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Cautious welcome for infection control strategy
The NHS Confederation has welcomed the government’s new infection control strategy, launched today, but has said: “It will be up to staff locally to tailor their investments to meet the needs of their individual organisations.”The Department of Health claims that NHS allocations for 2008-09 contain sufficient increase to allow every ...
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Literacy and numeracy in healthcare organisations
Many organisations have a healthy employee development programme in place. But how many of these ensure their strategy embraces the entire organisation - including those who may need to brush up on their literacy or numeracy skills? Chris Pearson explores why a whole organisational approach to literacy, language and numeracy ...
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government's infection control strategy
Hospitals have been told to recruit up to five extra specialist staff as part of a government strategy to improve infection control. The government wants up to£45million to be invested on the scheme, out of a£270million fund identified in the comprehensive spending review for reducing healthcare-acquired infections. But trusts are ...
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Marsden fire
When fire ripped through the Royal Marsden specialist cancer hospital in west London last week, the first phone call was to the fire brigade and then to the Royal Brompton heart and lung hospital around the corner.
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Tooke delivers verdict on medical training
The final report on the inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers has been published today.Led by Sir John Tooke, the report proposes the creation of a new body, NHS Medical Education England, to manage postgraduate medical training.
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First national anaesthetic network launched
There are 80,000 hip fractures in England every year and this number is rising. Anaesthetic management of these patients is challenging and there are vast variations in the care delivered across the NHS.Richard Griffiths explains how a new network is helping to overcome these difficulties
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NHS Networks creates stroke page
NHS Networks has launched a stroke page, with useful links and documents on the subject, together with links to the pages of all our stroke-related networks.
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Updated tool for predicting re-hospitalisation
The most recent version of the patients at risk of re-hospitalisation case finding tool, PARR++, was released in November 2007 and is free to download or order on a CD from the King's Fund website.
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Overcoming inequality in NHS provision and employment
As the 60th anniversary of the NHS approaches, Helen Hally looks at what can be done to achieve race equality in the service
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Managing diagnostic waiting lists
Setting up a reliable system to manage diagnostics appointments helped one trust cut waiting times significantly. Jayne Wood and Amy Lodge explain
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Fears DoH could claw back foundation trust surpluses
A dispute between University College London Hospitals foundation trust and the Department of Health has fuelled fears that the government will claw back surpluses from foundation trusts.
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Guidelines plea over ambulance volunteers
The Healthcare Commission has called for national guidelines to ensure the safe management of volunteers who support ambulance services.
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Missing pieces of emergency plan
The NHS has set a target to reduce emergency bed days by 5 per cent by 2008. Community matrons have been employed to help achieve this goal, yet they only target a very small number of people. This analysis shows how the service may be neglecting a much larger group ...