All Emergency care articles – Page 27
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NewsMajority of ‘last resort’ ambulance diverts reported by only two trusts
Two acute trusts account for almost two-thirds of emergency department ‘diverts’ reported over the last two months.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in December 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsSoaring trolley waits spark warnings A&E pressures getting ‘worse and worse’
The number of 12-hour waits in accident and emergency departments rose by 27 per cent in one month to reach record levels in January amid warnings overcrowding is harming an increasing number of patients.
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NewsTrust apologises for saying patient’s sexual assault ‘didn’t happen’
A hospital trust has apologised to a mental health patient who reported being sexually assaulted in its A&E department – after it emerged in a safety review that staff wrote ‘this has not happened’ and dismissed her claims of the attack.
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News‘We took over NHS’s biggest corporate failure’, says trust CEO
No matter the strength of an acquiring organisation, it would be ‘naïve’ to think the ‘biggest corporate failure in NHS history’ can turn itself around quickly, according to University Hospitals Birmingham chief executive Professor David Rosser.
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NewsCQC to restart inspections from Tuesday
The Care Quality Commission will restart inspections from 1 February with a focus on the urgent and emergency care system, the regulator has announced. Regulator to restart inspections after pause in December It will inspect where there is a risk of harm or for better understanding of pressures ...
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CommentWhy NHSE’s plan to abolish the 4 hour A&E target is a mistake
The study shows that long waits in A&E are associated with higher patient mortality. So, if waits much longer than 4 hours are demonstrably bad, what does this imply about policy?
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NewsTroubled trust’s A&E shake-up bid sent back by NHSE
The controversial reconfiguration of a struggling hospital trust’s A&E services – plans for which have been in the pipeline for more than a decade – has suffered further delay after NHS England and Improvement sent proposals back for revisions.
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CommentICSs should heed voices of children and young people
For genuine coproduction to thrive in healthcare there must be a radical paradigm shift that focuses on embedding the voice of children and young people into the fibres of ICS cultures, behaviours and structures. Coproduction must go beyond traditional organisational boundaries, and with ICSs still forming, there is no better ...
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HSJ LocalICS told to increase help for trust that treated patients on the floor
A troubled integrated care system has been told it must provide more help to a severely under-pressure acute trust where patients were treated on the floor and in a storeroom.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: NHSE wielding axe to quality targets risks normalising poor care
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter will track prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsTwelve-hour A&E waits average over 400 a day, leak reveals
The number of ‘trolley waits’ of more than 12 hours has continued to rise sharply into January, as senior medics warn of ‘appalling crowding’ in emergency departments.
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NewsTrusts fall far short of NHSE discharge target
NHS trusts have been unable to get anywhere close to the target for reducing delayed discharges set by NHS England last month ahead of the omicron wave.
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NewsNew NHS contract sets ‘realistic’ watered-down targets
NHS England’s proposed new standard contract confirms a watering down of several waiting-time targets, following the big deterioration in performance accelerated by covid.
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NewsGPs promised they will ‘not be disadvantaged’ financially for supporting emergency care
NHS England has sent a message to GPs urging them to continue their efforts to support urgent and emergency care, and promising they will not lose out financially as a result.
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NewsNHS given its 10 priorities for 2022
NHS England has set out 10 priorities for the 2022-23 financial year in its annual planning guidance, which was published late on Christmas eve.
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NewsExclusive: NHS plans ‘lots of little Nightingales’ to cope with omicron surge
NHS leaders have been told to make plans for temporary ‘field hospitals’ in hospital car parks and to review the capacity of their mortuaries in readiness for the expected surge of covid patients over the next five weeks, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Pushing guidance’ without resources ‘unhelpful’ in clearing long-stay patients, NHSE told
‘Pushing guidance’ without backing it up with more resources would be ‘unhelpful’ in shifting backlogs of medically fit patients, NHS England has been told.
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CommentJulian Patterson: Government acts to tackle 'taskforce crisis'
Government admits that ‘something must be done’ as it appoints first ever head of NHS taskforces, writes Julian Patterson
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HSJ InteractiveHow can lessons from covid help build a more inclusive health and care system?
While covid has accelerated digital transformation, a panel of experts explored how lessons from this, coupled with the use of data, can be used to help tackle inequalities and drive care in a different way. Jennifer Trueland reports