All Emergency care articles – Page 15
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CommentAmbulance chief: Strikes are harming patients
Ambulance service strikes are harming patients and taking time from recovery – I hope resolution can be reached soon, says London Ambulance Service chief Daniel Elkeles.
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NewsTrust leaders ‘welcome rigour’ of A&E target, says new NHSE director
Trust leaders have said they will welcome the ‘rigour’ of ‘a lot more focus’ on the four-hour A&E target nationally, alongside other indicators, NHS England’s new emergency care director told HSJ.
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NewsParamedics not sent to quarter of urgent calls, admits trust
Some ambulance trusts are not sending paramedics to up to around a quarter of their most serious calls, according to figures obtained by HSJ.
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NewsScandal trust CEO ‘proud of staff’ who embraced criticism
The chief executive of a trust embroiled in the NHS’s biggest maternity scandal says staff have tried to embrace and understand the criticism they have received, and insists the culture of the organisation has started to change.
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NewsNHSE launches new intervention regime for worst A&E performers
NHS England has revealed a new intervention regime, as it seeks to deliver on its new urgent and emergency care recovery plan.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Putting things right when they go wrong
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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CommentExclusive: the Steve Barclay diaries
There’s only one Steve with the qualities to sort out the country’s ailing health system. As told to Julian Patterson
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NewsNew A&E target branded ‘extremely unambitious’
The new national target to see 76 per cent of A&E patients within four hours by March 2024 has been described as ‘extremely unambitious’ by senior emergency clinicians.
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NewsICS cancels four urgent treatment centre contracts after performance concerns
An integrated care system has terminated a private provider’s contract to run four urgent treatment centres following performance concerns, HSJ has been told.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Liverpool promises to change
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsA&E patients being discharged before they are admitted, warns senior medic
A growing number of patients deemed to require a hospital admission are waiting so long in A&E that they end up being discharged before being admitted to a ward, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSix further ambulance strike dates announced
The union Unite has announced six days of strike action among its ambulance service staff, some of which coincide with action by GMB at the same trusts.
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CommentAction needed as A&Es overflow with patients in severe dental distress
NHS England must encourage those with dental expertise to join local systems, including by assisting ICSs with recruitment, so that institutional commissioning knowledge and experience are not lost when commissioning responsibilities are transferred, writes Matthew Taylor.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Priced out of the market
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ LocalTrust CEOs could ‘end up in prison’ because of ‘unsafe’ hospitals, warns chief
An acute trust chief executive has criticised the lack of communication during last month’s nursing strike, warning that he and other accountable officers could face manslaughter charges if patients are put in danger by decisions made by senior colleagues elsewhere in the system.
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Daily InsightThe Primer: Starmer ready for a scrap
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsFour urgent care centres in one ICS placed in special measures
The Care Quality Commission has placed the four urgent treatment centres run by a private provider in a single system into special measures.
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HSJ LocalEx-police chief to chair struggling trust
A former police chief has been appointed chair of England’s most under-pressure ambulance trust.
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NewsErrors in overflowing EDs causing heart attacks, NHS England warns
Patients have suffered cardiac and respiratory arrests because of errors using oxygen cylinders, NHS England has warned, citing more people being cared for in “areas without access to medical gas pipeline systems” such as corridors and ambulances queuing outside A&E.
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NewsConfusion over changes to CQC inspections signalled by Barclay
The Care Quality Commission is to ‘adjust’ its ‘regulatory activity for the rest of winter’ in an effort to help ‘increase capacity in both adult social care and the NHS’.