All Admissions and discharge articles – Page 12
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Supplements
Integration supplement: How the third sector helps discharged patients
The important role of British Red Cross volunteers
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HSJ Knowledge
Take these simple steps to ease A&E pressures in the short term
Discussions at the Emergency Care Summit
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Supplements
Paperless NHS supplement: Service redesign – Visible results
Paperless NHS supplement: Service redesign – Visible results
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Supplements
Supplement: What organisations must do to achieve a paperless NHS
Paperless NHS supplement
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News
Trusts told 'make every effort' to meet A&E target in April
Trusts have been told to ‘make every effort’ to meet the four hour target for accident and emergency departments by the end of next month.
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News
Trusts told to halve the number of ‘green to go’ patients
A number of trusts were told to reduce the number of medically fit patients who were delayed in being discharged from hospital by 50 per cent in a month, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Partners
Three steps to better care for the terminally ill
The electorate wants to ease the burden on A&E – and it is achievable
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HSJ Partners
Fast track palliative discharge services cut stays and admissions
Services in Glasgow and Lothian
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HSJ Local
Kent trust and CCGs called to joint performance meeting
East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust and its neighbouring clinical commissioning groups have been called to a meeting with NHS England and Monitor because of poor performance against cancer, accident and emergency, elective and diagnostic targets.
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Comment
'Internal major incidents' have become the new NHS norm
The NHS must manage patients’ expectations better
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News
Record number of patients waiting over 12 hours to be admitted
A record high of 241 patients waited over 12 hours to be admitted last week, according to the latest figures on accident and emergency performance from NHS England.
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HSJ Local
Single trust responsible for over half of national 12 hour waits
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust had 100 patients waiting over 12 hours in accident and emergency, accounting for more than half of such waiters nationally, figures for the last three months of 2014 reveal.
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News
A&Es under 'extreme pressure' as admissions rise
Accident and emergency departments are ‘cracking under extreme pressure’ with the number of patients waiting longer than four hours at a record high.
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HSJ Local
'Perfect storm' tips Walsall trust into the red
Walsall Healthcare Trust has instigated an action plan to clear its ‘significant’ waiting list after being hit by a ‘perfect storm’ of IT problems and heightened demand that threatens to push it £9m into the red.
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Supplements
Good practice case study: improved flow through faster discharge
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust brings discharge duties home when needed for timely service delivery.
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Good practice case study: rehabilitation and older patients
NHS Lanarkshire trains nursing teams from acute hospital wards in older patient rehabilitation and enablement
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Good practice case study: making frailty everyone's business
Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust screens all acute admissions for frailty