All Emergency care articles – Page 35
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Deciding who is in charge
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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HSJ PartnersRemembering sacrifices made by NHS emergency services personnel
Copyright: Tom Scholes Fogg The covid-19 pandemic, has galvanised the public’s understanding of the immediate and increasing sacrifices that our NHS and emergency services personnel, key workers and volunteers are making to keep us safe from harm. Written by This year the National Emergency Services Memorial ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: Primary Care or Community Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Primary Integrated Community Services (PICS): Acute Home Visiting Service The Acute Home Visiting Service is a responsive and effective home visiting service for patients that prevents them attending accident and emergency and relieves GP workload. Any housebound or care home patient requiring an acute same day visit from a ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust: Place Based Paediatrics The place based paediatric offer across Tameside and Glossop consists of a number of initiatives that support children and their families being seen and treated by the most appropriate professional, at the right time and in the right place: ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative
Winner West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Wessex AHSN, Somerset CCG, Kernow CCG: RESTORE2 - right care, right place, right time for care home residents RESTORE2 is a project to support staff in care and nursing homes to proactively recognise and manage physical deterioration in order to improve resident experience and ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: Acute Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: Integrated Urgent Care Team - Home First The Integrated Urgent Care Team now work together with other transformation services to support older people living in the community in an integrated model of care to deliver ‘integrated urgent ...
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HSJ LocalTwo paediatric EDs in region to close for the winter
Two of the five paediatric emergency departments in north central London are to close through the winter, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsExclusive: Major A&E shake-up plans to be rolled out in coming weeks
Pilots for a new urgent care model requiring walk-in patients to book slots in emergency departments are expected to be rolled out in at least one site in every health system in the coming weeks, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRaft of covid service changes not being reversed
Significant changes to a range of services, including A&E, stroke and maternity, made amid the covid-19 crisis are set to remain into next year, an HSJ analysis of key projects has found.
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CommentNHS communicators fear crumbling of support
Health communicators are deeply concerned that public support for the NHS may soon start to crumble as the health service wrestles with the daunting task of restoring pre-covid levels of service, writes John Underwood.
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NewsDelayed defibrillation led to second death despite revised guidance
Incidents of delayed defibrillation continued at an ambulance trust three years after it pledged to make changes to the way cardiac arrests were handled.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The grim truth on targets
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsTrust declares critical incident over ‘relentless demand’
A trust has declared a critical incident after experiencing “relentless demand” on urgent and emergency care, months after downgrading one of its emergency departments.
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Revealed: the trusts getting a share of the £300m winter pressures fund
Over one hundred trusts will share a £300m capital fund to support coronavirus-related upgrades to emergency departments ahead of winter, the prime minister has announced today.
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NewsNew A&E models may increase 'discrimination’ against some patients
The development of separate emergency units to help acute trusts manage demand during the covid pandemic may risk increasing “discrimination” against mental health patients, a royal college has warned.
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NewsPatient deaths prompt ambulance chiefs to look for alternative defibrillators
Ambulance chiefs are looking at alternative defibrillators after coroners highlighted confusion over how to correctly use their existing machines.
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HSJ PartnersCovid-19 poses a new challenge for point-of-care manufacturing
The spread of covid-19 outbreaks has led facilities in medical device manufacturing to rigorously anticipate, plan, and innovate. By Ali Burns, managing director of Siemens Healthineers Sudbury, UK manufacturing facility.
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NewsNHS Providers accepts case for axing four-hour target
NHS Providers has accepted the case for ditching the four-hour target – but has not yet backed system leaders’ replacement proposals due to significant concerns around accountability and deliverability, it has told HSJ.
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NewsDeaths at home up 40pc, as fewer die in hospital
The number of people dying at home compared to those ending their lives in hospitals or care homes has increased significantly in the wake of the covid pandemic’s peak in April and May.
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NewsNew A&E targets ‘to be rolled out before winter’
NHS England is planning to roll out new emergency care standards, designed to replace the four-hour A&E target, before winter, according to plans published today.