Acute Care – Page 449
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Hewitt to host public summit
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt is hosting a citizens' summit today for 90 members of the public who were involved in the listening exercises for the Your Health, Your Care, Your Say white paper.They will have the opportunity to discuss the implementation of the white paper since last January and the ...
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Low-weight births increasing, says report
More babies are being born at dangerously low weights than in 1989, according to a report from the Fabian Society.Born Unequal says 67 of every 1,000 babies had low birth weight in 1989, rising to 76 by 1999 and 78 by 2006. The report calls for mandatory one-to-one care for ...
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Best practice: how to predict length of stay
Asking patients to answer a unique set of questions about themselves helps assign them to the right beds from the beginning. Heather Waterman and Cherry Mason detail how a new allocation system has been working
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: The Mental Capacity Act
All health care organisations need to make sure that the correct governance arrangements are in place to give effect to patients' rights and monitor application of the Act, writes Peter Marquand
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HSJ Knowledge
Safety first: the benefits of e-prescribing
Entice staff on board with electronic prescribing and the results can be dramatic, reports Varya Shaw
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HSJ Knowledge
EARLI impact on reducing acute admissions
A simple tool can do much to help cut emergency hospitalisations. David Lyon and Hannah Chellaswamy explain
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Welsh cancer funding announced
Welsh cancer services are to receive £4.5m of extra funding from the Welsh Assembly government.Minister for health and social services Dr Brian Gibbons said the funds were to support the implementation of recommendations from a recent review of cancer services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Jan Walmsley on leadership clusters
Clustering leaders together for mutual support can not only.aid development and deal with management strategies but also be the solution to system problems beyond the regional
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HSJ Knowledge
Training school nurses in mental health
The Health Foundation is funding a project showing school nurses how to recognise and manage mental health problems in young people
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New labour: the Welsh clinical pathway for childbirth
Swansea University professor of midwifery Billie Hunter has researched into the clinical pathway in Wales, a system designed to document childbirth more carefully
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Patchy progress for endoscopy services
Long waits for endoscopies have been eliminated in many parts of the country but some areas are still experiencing long delays, according to a report by the Healthcare Commission.In the South East half of all patients had been waiting more than 26 weeks for the procedure, while less than 0.2 ...
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NICE issues home births warning
Women should be warned that babies born at home have a higher risk of dying, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has warned.Its guidance suggests women be reassured that the risk of their baby dying during childbirth is low wherever they are born - 5.1 deaths per 1,000 ...
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Minister launches smoke ban countdown
The government is stepping up its campaign to help businesses get ready for the smoking ban, which comes into force on 1 July.Launching the 100-day countdown, public health minister Caroline Flint said: 'The new law will protect everyone from the harm of second-hand smoke at work and in public places, ...
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More funding needed for neglected diseases, says BMA
A British Medical Association report published today says that since 2000 there has been a resurgence in drugs to treat diseases such as malaria and leprosy, but that governments across the world have failed to invest in them.BMA International Committee chair Dr Edwin Borman said: 'This report gives hope to ...
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Breast screening programme detects more early cases
More cases of breast cancer were detected in 2005-06 by the NHS breast screening programme than in any previous year, The Information Centre for health and social care announced today.Over 13,500 cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in women aged 50 and over, an increase of 13 per cent over ...
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Hunter syndrome guidelines released
Guidelines have been prepared to assist commissioning of services for mucopolysaccharide type II diseases (Hunter syndrome).The multidisciplinary group have extensive experience of enzyme replacement therapy for lysosomal storage disorders.Read the guidelines here
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Tuberculosis rise continues
Provisional figures released by the Health Protection Agency for 2006 show that cases of tuberculosis in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have increased 2 per cent from 8,008 cases reported in 2005 to 8,171 in 2006.London continues to account for the highest proportion of cases (42 per cent), but provisional ...
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Asset-sharing will limit the scope for dispute between the NHS and local government
'The commissioning process must have an injection of public involvement at every stage but particularly at the very beginning when need is assessed'
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Bid to stop lethal errors in injections
Three trusts have signed up to a pilot scheme aimed at cutting deaths and injuries caused by injectable medication errors.
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Comment
Consistency and agreement are needed to spread success
'The MPs' committee calls for lessons learned from the turnaround programme to be shared. But evidence for its effectiveness is opaque'.