All articles by Alison Moore – Page 15
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Trust CEO drafted in to lead national push to halve delayed discharges
The NHS has been told to discharge at least half the hospital patients who are medically fit to leave as it gears up to cope with a ‘tidal wave’ of omicron cases.
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CQC postpones most NHS inspections until 2022
The Care Quality Commission has tightened the criteria that trigger inspections for acute hospitals, ambulance services and GPs for the rest of the year.
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Trusts delay controversial merger due to ‘operational pressures’
A large acute trust and small specialist trust have delayed plans to complete a controversial merger.
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Trust keeps ‘outstanding’ rating despite not listening ‘enough’ to staff concerns
The Care Quality Commission has rated the surgery and maternity departments at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton ‘inadequate’ following concerns over lifesaving emergency surgery being delayed and pregnant women waiting up to six hours to be assessed by a doctor.
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Ambulance A&E handovers now a third higher than last winter’s peak
Nearly one in 10 ambulances faced at least an hour-long wait to hand over patients last week – with more than 8,000 delayed outside A&E departments.
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Exclusive: Police drop manslaughter investigation into trust
A trust will not face a second prosecution over the death of a baby seven days after a chaotic birth at one of its hospitals, unless new evidence emerges.
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What role can non-clinical support services play in helping the NHS recover after covid?
An HSJ webinar delved into how non-clinical support services have evolved during the pandemic, and their role in improving the patient experience. Alison Moore reports
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Female ambulance staff subjected to ‘macho and sexualised’ culture
A ‘macho’ culture within ambulance trusts is leading to widespread abuse of female staff.
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Staff flu vaccine uptake down on last year, despite winter fears
Early uptake of the flu vaccine by frontline NHS staff slumped this year, with only two in five having received it by the end of October, official figures show.
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How can we improve medication safety?
An HSJ roundtable, in association with BD, looked at what has been done to reduce risk of harm from medicines, and what the next steps of progress could be
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Trust promises jobs to partners of new consultants
A trust is attempting to boost its recruitment of senior medics by offering ‘guaranteed’ jobs to the partners of those consultants offered a substantive post.
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Hospitals charity distributing less than 50pc of the money it has raised
A charity which says it is fundraising for 470 hospitals has admitted only £30,000 of the £128,000 it has raised is “being distributed” but says there is more to come.
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Trust plans to directly employ 500 outsourced staff
Around 500 outsourced staff are to be directly employed by an ambulance trust in a bid to integrate them with crews.
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Another ambulance service declares critical incident after IT outage
An ambulance provider has declared a critical incident after suffering significant IT issues – the second ambulance trust to have done so in as many weeks.
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NHS trouble-shooter appointed chair of trust where governors are resisting merger
One of England’s smallest trusts – which is in dispute with its governors over an impending merger – has appointed a new chair.
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160,000 risk harm each year from ambulance handover delays
Ambulance handover delays could harm 160,000 patients a year, 12,000 of them severely, according to a structured clinical review of cases by service bosses earlier this year.
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Ambulance and trolley waits soar to record levels
Ambulance response times hit new lows last month, leaving heart attack and stroke patients waiting nearly an hour to be reached on average, despite the system having an 18-minute target for this cohort.
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Long-term plan target 'set to be missed by several years’
The NHS is set to miss the long-term plan’s target for improving stroke care by several years, a leading doctor has said.
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Victim’s family questions why mortuary sex abuser was not detected earlier
The sister of one of David Fuller’s hospital mortuary victims has questioned why his crimes were not uncovered earlier.
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Javid announces independent inquiry into mortuary sex offences
The government is to effectively take over the independent investigation into David Fuller’s mortuary crimes – but has stopped short of ordering a public inquiry.