All Emergency care articles – Page 66
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Comment
Dalton and Mackey: Do everything you can to hit the four hour target
David Dalton and Jim Mackey outline why leaders should try to meet the four hour standard to provide safe care
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News
'Bin' DTOC warning letters, says local government leader
Local government’s national representative has advised councils to “throw in the bin” warning letters over care delays, amid fresh warnings that relationships are being fractured by the funding row.
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News
CCGs tender £125m contract for integrated urgent care
A distressed health economy is redesigning its urgent care services with commissioners releasing a £125m contract to bring urgent out of hospital services together.
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News
Exclusive: Variation in surgery standards depending on time of day flagged
Standards of care for patients needing emergency bowel surgery vary considerably based on the time of day they have their operation, a new audit has revealed.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: Winter, deaths and inequality
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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News
Trusts miss NHS England A&E performance milestone
Trusts have fallen short of NHS England’s first milestone towards hitting the national emergency performance waiting time target, official figures reveal today.
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HSJ Local
Updated: New chief executive for trust with worst A&E in the country
The chief executive of Dartford and Gravesham Trust is to take on the leadership one of the NHS’s most challenged providers.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Why the MBA method to NHS reform may fail
Andy Cowper on how management by admonishment is not a good idea in the case of the NHS
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HSJ Local
Trust remains in special measures after new problems uncovered
A troubled ambulance trust is set to remain in special measures after a Care Quality Commission inspection found a new problem with recording 999 calls.
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HSJ Local
Specialist emergency trust's A&E rated inadequate
One of Greater Manchester’s four ‘specialist’ emergency hospitals has had its urgent and emergency care services rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ Local
Worst performing A&E trust appoints new interim chair
The chair of a trust struggling with accident and emergency performance is stepping down, just weeks after the chief executive resigned.
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HSJ Local
National leaders warned over lack of services for personality disorders
A coroner has warned national health leaders about a lack of commissioned services to support patients with borderline personality disorder.
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News
Capital's trusts to introduce 'maximum' caps on agency rates
Hospitals in London struggling to recruit medical locums to tackle staff shortages are to limit the amount they can spend even when safety is a factor from this weekend, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
CCGs find no link between GP hours and A&E attendance
Two Nottinghamshire clinical commissioning groups, which also lead a national vanguard, have found there is no direct link between extended GP opening hours and accident and emergency attendances.
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News
Stevens: NHS will be forced to open extra beds if DTOCs aren't cut
The NHS will have to open more beds – but would struggle to staff them – if there are not sufficient reductions in delayed transfers of care ahead of winter, Simon Stevens has said.
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HSJ Local
Smallest hospital trust moves closer to downgrade and merger
England’s smallest acute trust has moved a step closer to downgrading its emergency services, with the publication of proposals for “a new community focused role… at the heart of the new model of care”.
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News
Consultant shortages mean sepsis standards 'unachievable'
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has clarified its latest advice on sepsis after warnings that a shortage of consultants makes the standards “unachievable”.
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News
Labour calls for £500m 'winter bailout fund'
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth will call on the government to provide a £500m “winter bailout fund” for health and care services.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut – On the NHS reaching Peak David Brent
The recent antics of a regional leader showing that the NHS has reached peak David Brent, it’s hard not to conclude that the NHS needs a chief anthropologist more than it needs a chief inspector, says Andy Cowper
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News
NHS leaders chant 'we can do this' at A&E improvement summit
NHS chief executives were led in a chant of ‘we can do this’ at a nationally convened meeting about the need to improve emergency performance, HSJ has been told.