All Admissions and discharge articles – Page 13
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HSJ KnowledgeStreamlining inpatient processes can reduce discharge times
Review the continuing healthcare procedures
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NewsCoroner rules lack of mental health beds contributed to death
A lack of mental health beds was a ‘contributory factor’ in the suicide of a teenager being treated more than 100 miles from home, a coroner has ruled.
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SupplementsIntegration supplement: How the third sector helps discharged patients
The important role of British Red Cross volunteers
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HSJ KnowledgeTake these simple steps to ease A&E pressures in the short term
Discussions at the Emergency Care Summit
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SupplementsSupplement: What organisations must do to achieve a paperless NHS
Paperless NHS supplement
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SupplementsPaperless NHS supplement: Service redesign – Visible results
Paperless NHS supplement: Service redesign – Visible results
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NewsTrusts 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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NewsTrusts 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 PartnersThree 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 PartnersFast track palliative discharge services cut stays and admissions
Services in Glasgow and Lothian
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HSJ LocalKent 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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NewsRecord 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 LocalSingle 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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NewsA&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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SupplementsGood practice case study: integrating systems for better care
South Warwickshire Foundation Trust set up three discharge-to-access pathways that cut down the length of hospital stay for older patients