All Children's services articles – Page 27
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HSJ LocalBirmingham Children's Hospital missing cancelled ops reduction target
PERFORMANCE: Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust is underperforming against its own target for cancelled operations, the trust’s latest board papers show.
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NewsCQC to launch crisis care inspections in summer
Services for people in mental health crisis are to be put under the spotlight this summer with a round of targeted inspections by the Care Quality Commission, HSJ has learned.
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CommentReaders' letters – 11 April 2014
Readers’ views on prescription charges and children’s mental health services
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HSJ Local
CCG plans to jointly commission children’s services with council
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group plans to jointly commission children’s services in Cambridgeshire with the local authority.
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CommentMy advice on Bristol: we have come a long way
Chief executive responds to Maria Von Hildebrand
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HSJ LocalExclusive: University Hospitals Bristol 'inured' to impact of failings
An adviser to the national review of children’s heart surgery has warned recent failings at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children “echo” those which led to a public inquiry almost 20 years ago.
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CommentMy advice to Bristol heart parents: consider another hospital
The unit lacks direction and leadership
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NewsExclusive: More children who have self harmed on acute wards
A growing “hidden cohort” of children who have self-harmed are admitted to acute hospitals because of a lack of appropriate mental health services, according to a survey shared with HSJ.
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'Change rules on baby organ donors'
Sick very young babies in need of organ donations have “the odds stacked against them” because of current UK guidelines, experts have warned.
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'More children' on adult wards
The number of under-18s admitted to adult mental health wards or treated on them is rising, figures show.
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CommentTo legislate or educate? That is the public health question
Legislation must be reinforced by awareness
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NewsExclusive: Dismay over moratorium on mental health commissioning
An NHS England moratorium on commissioning new specialist mental health services has exacerbated the sector’s bed shortage and led to a newly constructed hospital unit standing empty for six months, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMid Staffs to be dissolved
The health secretary today announced that Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust would be dissolved in line with the recommendation of the trust’s special administrators.
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HSJ KnowledgeSix questions about the increase of children in A&E
Andreas Hadjitheoris wants your views on what’s really happening in A&E
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BlogsThere was no 'golden era' to be a public sector worker
Despite the perpetual challenges facing the public sector, young people still want to be social workers, teachers and nurses
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NewsChildren 'treated on adult wards'
Hundreds of children with mental health problems are being treated on adult psychiatric wards, the BBC has reported.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe kids aren't alright: more children are going to A&E than ever before
There are more under-16s in A&E than over-65s
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HSJ LocalNew review of children's heart surgery in Bristol
The chair of the high profile public inquiry into paediatric heart surgery in Bristol is to lead a new review into the deaths of a number of children with heart problems at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust.
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NewsChildren's hospital told to improve
A leading children’s hospital has been ordered to improve after inspectors found patients were being put at risk by a faulty emergency call alarm system, poor staffing and incidents going unreported.
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NewsWarning over cancer drug loophole
A loop hole in European law is denying thousands of children potentially life-saving cancer drugs, experts claim.