All Emergency care articles – Page 150
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HSJ Knowledge
Fresh thinking on problem drinking
Gillian Gale, Oliver Hill and Lucio Cicolecchia explain a twin strategy that aims to relieve some of the major pressures caused by alcohol abuse
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News
Hospitals gain ground in acute services battle
Three West Sussex hospitals have moved a step closer to retaining many of their acute services.
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News
Ambulance services deny claims of patient stacking
Ambulance services and the Department of Health have hit back at claims that patients are being deliberately detained in ambulances to ensure hospitals hit accident and emergency waiting-time targets.
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Comment
Jo Stephenson on patient stacking
Patient stacking sounds like the kind of thing medical students might get up to: giant Jenga with people instead of blocks of wood.
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Comment
Proud of our A&E
I was pleased Emma Dent had a positive experience in accident and emergency, but she did not name the trust. So, on Emma's behalf, I just wanted to thank the hard-working staff who treated her colleague at UCLH.
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News
Quarterly A&E waiting times published
The Department of Health today published the latest quarterly figures for accident and emergency department waiting times.The statistics for the quarter ending December 2007 show trusts' performance on the total amount of time patients spend in A&E from arriving to being admitted to hospital, discharged or transferred elsewhere.
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HSJ Knowledge
National critical care networks conference
The 2008 national critical care networks conference will be held at the Royal Armouries in Leedson 15 April under the banner One Step Beyond: quality critical care beyond comprehensive critical care.
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HSJ Knowledge
National critical care networks conference
The 2008 national critical care networks conference will be held at the Royal Armouries in Leedson 15 April under the banner One Step Beyond: quality critical care beyond comprehensive critical care.
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News
Welsh plan to improve emergency services
Plans to improve emergency and unscheduled care services in Wales have been announced today.
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HSJ Knowledge
Emergency care - steady progress, urgent need
To help simplify highly complex emergency care processes, one health and social care community has signed up to a whole-system change programme. By Daloni Carlisle
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News
Ambulance service network launched
The Ambulance Service Association has merged with the NHS Confederation to form the Ambulance Service Network.
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News
Royal Marsden's cool heads and smart systems
In the wake of the west London fire, Ingrid Torjesen looks at how the hospital coped and whether emergency planning has moved on since 7/7
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News
Former choice head joins ambulance trust
Martyn Pritchard, former head of the Department of Health's choice policy, has been appointed the new chief executive of Yorkshire Ambulance Service trust.
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News
Scottish A&E closure plans flawed
An independent scrutiny panel has said health boards NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Ayrshire and Arran did not listen to the public when deciding to close accident and emergency departments at Monklands Hospital in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and Ayr Hospital, Ayrshire.
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HSJ Knowledge
Updated tool for predicting re-hospitalisation
The most recent version of the patients at risk of re-hospitalisation case finding tool, PARR++, was released in November 2007 and is free to download or order on a CD from the King's Fund website.
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News
Guidelines plea over ambulance volunteers
The Healthcare Commission has called for national guidelines to ensure the safe management of volunteers who support ambulance services.
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News
Emergency reconfiguration plans approved
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has endorsed two separate plans to concentrate emergency services.
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News
floods nib
An interim report into the way public services responded to the summer floods has highlighted confusion over the roles of health organisations in providing health protection advice. The review, led by Sir Michael Pitt, chairman of the South West Strategic Health Authority, calls for urgent clarification from the Department of ...
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News
Guidance for emergency burns patients
The Department of Health has published its emergency planning guidance for the management of burn-injured patients.
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News
Regulate volunteer ambulance assistance, says Healthcare Commission
The Healthcare Commission has called for national guidelines for community first responder schemes, where volunteers attend life-threatening calls alongside ambulances.The commission said CFRs should be properly audited and managed.