All Emergency care articles – Page 21
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NewsRevealed: Ambulance waits quadruple in handover hotspots
Ambulance waiting times for stroke and suspected heart attacks have quadrupled in four parts of England since before covid-19 – whereas others have only grown by half – underlining the severe impact of long accident and emergency handovers.
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NewsNHSE names new emergency care chief and deputy COO
NHS England has hired a hospital chief executive as its new national director of urgent and emergency care and deputy chief operating officer.
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HSJ LocalA&E staff ordered to receive ambulances ‘in all instances’
Directors of a major hospital have ordered their accident and emergency staff to continue receiving ambulance patients into their department “in all instances”, following angry exchanges with paramedics.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsBiggest ever monthly rise in 12-hour trolley waits, stats show
Long waits in emergency departments rose by their highest monthly margin in October as performance continued to deteriorate across emergency services and planned care.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Unease around waiting list prioritisation
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingWill Barclay target ICS or trust chiefs for the chop?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentRevealed: How cost of living pressures will exacerbate emergency care demand
NHS analysts and modellers from Bristol University investigate the possible impact of cost of living pressures for the coming winter, finding an estimated 5 to 13 per cent additional demand for 111, 999, and mental healthcare.
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CommentThe ancient art of passing the parcel
The NHS is not short of beds, it is short of ideas. Dr David Rummage, head of clinical innovation at NHS Blithering believes that innovation is the key to unleashing hospitals. Report by Julian Patterson
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NewsCQC inspection approach helping fuel emergency care crisis, says trust chief
A trust chief executive says the Care Quality Commission’s inspection regime is still overly focussed on individual organisations, rather than systems, and this is driving the ‘risk aversion’ which is partly responsible for the emergency care crisis.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Debate over ‘sticking plaster’ A&E model
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ emergency care correspondent Matt Discombe
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HSJ LocalTrust criticised over handling of 60-hour A&E waits
Senior staff have questioned why a major hospital did not seek support from neighbours when emergency patients were left waiting more than 60 hours to be admitted to a bed.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: NHS Safeguarding Award
WINNER One Gloucestershire: Homeless Specialist Nurse
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Quality Improvement Initiative of the Year
Partnered by WINNER East Kent Hospitals University FT: System Optimisation in Times of Crisis - Sustainable, Patient Centered Improvements, Delivered Rapidly During the COVID Pandemic, Using Multiple Innovative Technological Solutions
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Virtual or Remote Care Initiative of the Year
Partnered by WINNER Moorfields Eye Hospital FT: Home Vision Monitor
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: New lows for ambulance handover crisis
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Uncomfortable’ A&E model could be rolled out nationally
A patient flow model which involves moving A&E patients to wards “irrespective” of whether there are beds available, is under review for wider rollout by NHS England and is being endorsed by senior clinicians, despite safety fears, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: main hospital corridor turned into ‘makeshift ward’
The main corridor of an acute hospital has been closed to patients and staff and turned into a ‘makeshift ward’, in what sources describe as an ‘absolutely unprecedented’ situation.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Doing North Bristol here
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News‘Mothballed beds’ must be brought back into service to boost elective activity says NHSE
NHS England has warned trusts that it is “essential” that elective procedures go ahead over winter, despite acknowledging hospital occupancy is running at an “all time high”.