Acute Care – Page 424
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HSJ Knowledge
Infection control: back to the boardroom
Informing the board and protecting patients were the key strands of one trust's infection control drive, writes Alison Norman
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HSJ Knowledge
Ofcare - a break with the past or business as usual?
The recent announcements by the prime minister and the health secretary that there is to be a crackdown on hospital-acquired infections must be good news for patients and healthcare professionals. A new regulator is promised, with tough powers of inspection, investigation and intervention, backed by fines, where hygiene standards are ...
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HSJ Knowledge
PAs allow senior nurses to focus on patient care
Heart of England foundation trust recently piloted the role of senior nurse personal assistant. Since the introduction of four PAs a year ago, there have been demonstrable benefits. Karen Bowley explains
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Comment
Michael White on nursing standards
I didn't know whether to laugh or make plans to flee the country when I read weekend front-page headlines such as 'Nurses to have the power to end a life'
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News
Deficit crisis warning over Scotland's PFI expansion
Plans to more than quadruple the size of NHS Scotland's private finance initiative programme risk creating a deficit crisis akin to that in England, researchers have warned.
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News
Darzi blames poor leaders for hospital infection outbreaks
Minimising hospital-acquired infections should be the responsibility of managers, junior health minister Lord Darzi has told the Commons health select committee.
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News
Trusts 'shell' bed space to keep grip on PFI approval
Hospital trusts are being forced to mothball significant numbers of beds to get government approval for private finance initiative deals.
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Comment
All Our Yesterdays
November 6, 1936, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewThe work of the joint vagrancy authorities; 'decisions on medical examinations and removal of aged from the road' was discussed in the Journal this week.The financial officer reported that the costs of maintaining causal wards as falling in accordance to ...
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HSJ Knowledge
The real workforce
What kind of health workforce will England need in 2022? Sandra Dawson and colleagues looked to the future and saw a key role for informal carers
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HSJ Knowledge
Ali Mohammed on talking and listening
It had been a long sunny day in Brighton and as I walked into our secretarial support office, sleeves rolled up and tie removed, my PA suggested out of concern that I was looking hot. The cheeky side of me came to the fore and I suggested that she wasn’t ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Foreign exchange
How can we ensure we collect payment from overseas visitors? Andy Finlay reports on how his trust near Heathrow is succeeding
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Castle on improving procurement processes
Collecting and interpreting data is an essential part of supply chain management
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News
Thousands of doctors may be working illegally
Human resources managers are becoming increasingly worried about the number of junior doctors still working without contracts.
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News
Private provision: Lamb calls for probe into ISTC waste
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb has called for a formal investigation of independent sector treatment centres after HSJ revealed that the NHS paid for 50,000 operations last year that did not take place.
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News
Maidstone chair aims to regain trust of staff
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has announced the appointment of an interim chair to steer it through the aftermath of the fatal outbreak of Clostridium difficile.
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News
Behind closed doors: is Kent infection scandal a one-off?
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells’ Clostridium difficiledeaths drew intense scrutiny. Alison Moore looks at what went wrong, how it was kept quiet and lessons for the rest of the service
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News
West Herts chief steps down in wake of attacks from three local MPs
West Hertfordshire Hospitals trust chief executive David Law has resigned following the trust's poor annual health check performance.
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Comment
Foundation trust applicants face an uncertain future
It is widely accepted that the target for all trusts to become foundations by December 2008 will not be met. But what is the future for those that will not make the grade?
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News
NHS Scotland to face independent scrutiny
The Scottish government has outlined its plans for independent scrutiny of reconfiguration and service changes in NHS Scotland.
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HSJ Knowledge
Foundation trusts applications: shape up or ship out
The deadline for all acute trusts to apply for foundation status by 2008 has proved unrealistic. What now for those that have not made the leap? Helen Mooney reports