All Emergency care articles – Page 19
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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’.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Your failing hospital
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsAmbulances ‘lose’ 55,000 hours in one week during handover delays
Hours lost to ambulance handover delays, and the numbers of ambulances waiting more than an hour outside hospitals hit new highs in the week after Christmas.
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HSJ LocalDoctors ‘embarrassed and ashamed’ by care at new hospital
A clinical director and 30 senior medics have told trust executives they are ashamed of the ‘dreadful conditions’ faced by patients after moving into a ‘chaotic’ new emergency department.
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NewsAmbulance trust asks ICSs for 300 staff to step in on strike day
More than 300 clinicians are being sought from primary care to help London Ambulance Service during next week’s strike, according to a letter seen by HSJ, amid fears it will have a greater impact than last month’s industrial action.
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HSJ LocalTrust that banned corridor care ‘reluctantly’ brings it back
An acute trust has announced the ‘reluctant’ return of ‘corridor care’ – having previously eradicated the unsafe practice – due to extreme ambulance handover delays and other emergency pressures.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Different dog, same bark
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsRevealed: The targets the NHS no longer has to meet
NHS England has shelved priorities on long covid and diversity and inclusion – as well as a wide range of other areas – in its latest slimmed down operational planning guidance, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsExclusive: Ambulance crews urged to conserve oxygen
Ambulance staff are being urged to conserve oxygen supplies because of a national shortage of small cylinders used both on ambulances and in some A&E departments.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read patient safety stories of 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, HSJ takes a look at its most read patient safety stories of the year.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read stories of 2022
As 2022 draws to a close, HSJ takes a look at its most read stories of the year.
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NewsNHSE reveals new A&E waiting time goal
NHS England is handing trusts a new target to see 76 per cent of accident and emergency patients within four hours by the end of 2023-24.
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NewsAmbulance strike: ‘We can’t keep doing this’
Yesterday’s ambulance staff strike did not produce the chaos many predicted. Why was this — and what can we learn from it?
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HSJ LocalChiefs warn national visits are stretching trust’s resources ‘thinly’
Many visits by national leaders are stretching resources ‘thinly’ at one of England’s most under pressure trusts, its leaders have warned.