Acute Care – Page 465

  • News

    Stroke patients 'die needlessly', says report

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Stroke patients in England 'die needlessly or suffer more serious disability than they should' because they continue to be denied fast access to brain scans and clot-busting drugs, according to a report published by the Commons public accounts committee.

  • News

    Maternity unit's near miss

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A trust has reversed its decision to close a maternity unit after threats from a local MP to raise the issue with the prime minister.

  • News

    BMA concern over research funds

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association has expressed concerns about a possible shortfall in funding for research, after chancellor Gordon Brown formally announced the creation of a new body to oversee the merged research budgets of the NHS and the Medical Research Council.

  • News

    Resignation over list controversy

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    One member of staff has resigned and another has been disciplined at a Lincolnshire trust at the centre of waiting list irregularities.

  • News

    Coding row 'largely resolved'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Disputes concerning over-performance at acute level have been largely resolved, University College London Hospitals foundation trust has said.

  • News

    Protect equity says RCN chief

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Comment

    Michael White on hospital infections

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Air ambulance charities hope for NHS cash

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Safety probe at 999 trust

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Staffordshire Ambulance Service trust has landed in controversy again with an investigation launched into possible patient safety breaches.

  • News

    Operating framework: concerns over missed targets

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    NHS and politics inseparable, says PM adviser

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    60 acute and mental health trusts 'won't make foundations'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    OSC objects to surgery cut

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A hospital trust has been criticised for announcing that it will withdraw emergency general surgery from one of its sites without consultation.

  • News

    Monitor concern over foundation progress

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Less than half of acute and mental health trusts are likely to reach foundation status by 2008, regulator Monitor has said.

  • News

    Penalty fines total millions on IT

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Trusts are being fined millions of pounds for failing to lend staff to computer contractors running the troubled national IT programme.

  • News

    East Sussex A&E proposals criticised by local MPs

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Trust considers alternating emergency care service between hospitals

  • News

    Foundation concern over £28m in unpaid bills

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Treaty clash between regulatory rivals

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Comms failure hampered London bombing response

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Higher costs warning on independent sector

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.