All Emergency care articles – Page 11
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News‘Excess deaths’ due to A&E delays rise by nearly a third in one year
Long waits in A&E departments may have caused around 30,000 ‘excess deaths’ last year, according to new estimates.
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NewsNHSE’s ambulance lead joins trust board
NHS England’s lead for ambulance services and other ‘out-of-hospital urgent and emergency care’ is leaving to take up a deputy chief executive role in the ambulance sector.
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CommentThe hidden threat posed by fake medics
Real doctors are up in arms as physician associates threaten to replace them on social media, reports Julian Patterson
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NewsRevealed: Four trusts report quarter of all ‘critical incidents’
More than a quarter of ‘critical incidents’ have been declared by just four trusts since the start of the crisis in urgent and emergency care.
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HSJ Local‘Incapable managers’ and ‘socialist NHS’ to blame for delay to £300m project, claims MP
A Conservative MP has attacked the management of his local trust and NHS bureaucracy for failing to deliver improvements to two hospitals in his constituency, despite the government allocating the schemes over £300m six years ago.
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CommentThe NHS is forgetting stroke survivors
To meet rising demand, enhance recovery, reduce costs, and ensure every survivor thrives, the UK needs equitable, personalized, and accessible life after stroke services
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NewsMajor incident unit faces possible closure
The future of a specialist ambulance unit responsible for responding to major incidents such as terrorist attacks is in question following ongoing delay in putting its new contract out to tender.
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News‘Notable decline’ in ambulance, mental health and maternity care, says CQC
The quality of maternity, mental health and ambulance services has seen a “notable decline” over the last year, which is contributing to “unfair care” and worsening health inequalities, the Care Quality Commission has warned.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in August 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentWe should not tolerate the NHS's suboptimal cardiovascular care
Dr Matt Kearney challenges the longstanding NHS tolerance of suboptimal care that drives cardiovascular disease – and the potential use of routine GP data that would prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes in three years.
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NewsAmbulance sector vows to improve sexual safety
The ambulance sector has signed up to a consensus statement in a bid to tackle misogyny and improve sexual safety for its staff and patients.
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News‘No alternative’ to paying more to struggling provider, ICB admits
An integrated care board has no ‘viable alternative’ to persisting with a contract for several struggling urgent treatment centres, and paying more for them to try to hire more staff, it has decided.
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NewsExclusive: Site-level A&E performance revealed for the first time
The true scale of poor performance against the four-hour waiting time target at individual A&E sites, which is often masked by the official trust-level data, has been laid bare for the first time by information acquired by HSJ.
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CommentThe way ambulance trusts work has not always delivered, so we’re changing
London Ambulance Service Trust’s CEO Daniel Elkeles discusses the trust’s new five-year strategy and the three missions it aims to achieve
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NewsICB hands urgent treatment centres to trusts after ending firm’s contract
An integrated care board has handed the operation of six urgent treatment centres to trusts after terminating a private provider’s contract.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023: Urgent and Emergency Care Safety Initiative of the Year
WINNER West of England AHSN: “SharED” - Supporting High impAct useRs in Emergency Departments
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NewsA&E handover delays ‘still getting worse at some hospitals’
Ambulance chiefs say handover delays have got worse at some trusts in recent months, despite the picture improving nationally since last winter.
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CommentActing on suicide prevention
While progress is being made, it is essential for all to work together to create hope, strengthen prevention, and achieve zero-suicide ambitions, writes Emily Gibbons
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NewsTrust needs £20m to deliver asks from Manchester bomb inquiry
Ambulance trusts are lobbying for tens of millions in additional funding to meet key targets set by the Manchester Arena bombing inquiry.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can electronic bed management improve patient flow and capacity management?
An HSJ webinar explored the impact of electronic bed management systems on patient flow and capacity management, what they mean for staff workflows and how to implement them