All Emergency care articles – Page 84
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NewsDemand for elective care highest in seven years
The number of patients waiting to start treatment has hit the highest point in seven years, according to the latest data from NHS England.
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NewsStruggling emergency care systems to get winter buddies
A buddy system for poorly performing urgent and emergency care systems will be introduced this winter in an attempt to help the ‘most challenged’ areas.
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NewsNICE makes U-turn over publishing safe staffing guidance
Plans to publish safe nurse staffing guidance for emergency departments have been abandoned in a U-turn by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
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NewsFirst eight urgent and emergency care vanguards revealed
The first wave of urgent and emergency care vanguard sites has been revealed by NHS England.
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NewsMapped: The urgent and emergency care vanguard sites
HSJ’s map of the eight sites identified by NHS England as the first urgent and emergency care vanguards.
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CommentShattered: The NHS capacity myth
The NHS always appears to be short of acute capacity. But this may be an illusion that could be rectified by fine tuning resources further ahead
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NewsCCGs expected to fund 2.3 per cent rise in emergency activity
Clinical commissioning groups are expected to fund a 2.3 per cent increase in emergency activity this year compared to 2014-15, NHS England has confirmed.
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HSJ Knowledge
The NHS could be world leaders in seven day working
With trusts offering all days services
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CommentThe NHS isn't ready to provide a consultant delivered service
Role of on call specialists questioned
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HSJ KnowledgeBreaking the cycle: Ways to achieve A&E performance targets
This trust delivered the four hour target for first time in three years
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NewsExclusive: NICE to publish A&E staffing guidance not wanted by NHS England
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will publish recommended nurse staffing levels for accident and emergency departments despite being asked by NHS England to drop the work, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: All 111 and out of hours tenders suspended
NHS England has told commissioners to suspend all GP out of hours and NHS 111 procurements while it draws up new rules for creating ‘functionally integrated’ urgent care services, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Letters show how CCGs directed to up activity plans
Letters seen by HSJ reveal how NHS England ordered clinical commissioning groups to change their contracts with acute providers to reflect an assumption that hospital activity would grow this year.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to balance the push and pull of performance and demand
Hospital performance targets
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NewsNHS England tells regions to create urgent care networks
NHS England has said urgent and emergency care networks should be set up across the country to set and monitor standards of care and ‘designate urgent care facilities’.
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