Acute Care – Page 462
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Coding row 'largely resolved'
Disputes concerning over-performance at acute level have been largely resolved, University College London Hospitals foundation trust has said.
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Protect equity says RCN chief
The patient choice programme must not be promoted at the expense of equity, Peter Carter, the Royal College of Nursing's new general secretary, has warned.
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Michael White on hospital infections
HSJ's January scoop about the enduring problems with MRSA and Clostridium difficile yielded parliamentary fruit the other day in the shape of a Tory-initiated Commons debate in which this magazine received generous publicity. Excellent.
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Air ambulance charities hope for NHS cash
Air ambulance charities believe the NHS is ready to recognise the role they could play in improving emergency care - and that funding for improved services could be on the cards.
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Safety probe at 999 trust
Staffordshire Ambulance Service trust has landed in controversy again with an investigation launched into possible patient safety breaches.
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Operating framework: concerns over missed targets
The operating framework 2007-08 identifies some concerns about NHS targets - in particular, missed mental health targets and risks around the 18-week referral-to-treatment target.
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NHS and politics inseparable, says PM adviser
An NHS independent of politics and politicians is 'a chimera' and risks undermining its tax-funded base, Professor Paul Corrigan, health adviser to the prime minister, told a King's Fund debate last week.
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60 acute and mental health trusts 'won't make foundations'
About 60 acute and mental health trusts will not reach foundation status by December 2008 and are likely to be closed, taken over or reconfigured, a senior Department of Health official has predicted.
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OSC objects to surgery cut
A hospital trust has been criticised for announcing that it will withdraw emergency general surgery from one of its sites without consultation.
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Monitor concern over foundation progress
Less than half of acute and mental health trusts are likely to reach foundation status by 2008, regulator Monitor has said.
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Penalty fines total millions on IT
Trusts are being fined millions of pounds for failing to lend staff to computer contractors running the troubled national IT programme.
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East Sussex A&E proposals criticised by local MPs
Trust considers alternating emergency care service between hospitals
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Foundation concern over £28m in unpaid bills
Nine foundation trusts have 'significant concerns' over whether outstanding bills will be paid by primary care trusts. The trusts are warning that £28m might have to be written off.
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Treaty clash between regulatory rivals
Friction between regulators Monitor and the Healthcare Commission was growing this week over the former's reluctance to sign up to a concordat designed to reduce the regulatory burden on trusts.
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Comms failure hampered London bombing response
London Ambulance Service trust has accepted that the breakdown of the mobile network and the configuration of its radio system led to 'communications difficulties' that hampered the NHS response to the bombings in London on 7 July last year.
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Higher costs warning on independent sector
Uncertainty over the role of the independent sector is likely to result in higher costs to the NHS, less innovation and a 'muddle' which will put patients in danger, the King's Fund has warned.
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MPs to probe IT programme
MPs on the Commons health select committee are set to investigate the NHS IT programme later this year in response to a letter from 23 computer experts. MPs will examine the national programme and decide whether there is a need for an independent audit.
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Foundation governance definitely not kids' stuff
Monitor has stepped in to prevent a foundation trust appointing children as governors.
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Choice: too little data for patients
Patients want to choose hospitals on the basis of quality of care but there is too little data to help them come to a conclusion, a report has found.
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Foundation trust defers application
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has deferred its foundation trust application because of continuing uncertainty over the payment by results tariff for specialist services.