All Emergency care articles – Page 87
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HSJ LocalStafford Hospital inpatient surgery transferred
Surgical services and procedures requiring overnight inpatient stays have been transferred from the former Stafford Hospital to Royal Stoke University Hospital and Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
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HSJ LocalGloucestershire trust challenges CCG penalties
FINANCE: Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust has formally challenged a decision by its main commissioner to impose financial penalties worth a total of £2m this year.
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HSJ LocalWhipps Cross A&E pressures bring mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: Whipps Cross Hospital in east London breached mixed sex accommodation guidelines 14 times in just one month as it grappled with high numbers of emergency admissions and bed shortages, according to commissioners.
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News£1.2m fund for volunteers to help under pressure A&Es
Trusts will be given an extra £1.2m to fund 700 volunteers to help ease pressures on accident and emergency departments.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Memo reveals trust forced to 'scale back' specialist service
Emergency patients at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust who are in need of specialist dermatology treatment could be forced to wait more than a day to be seen, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalLincoln Hospital begins £580k revamp
CAPITAL SCHEMES: Building work costing more than £580,000 has begun on Lincoln County Hospital’s outpatient department following investment from United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.
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CommentNext government must recognise that acute need is part of whole person care
Include frail older people
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NewsExclusive: Consultants' leader calls for 'sensible' seven day working proposals
Higher patient mortality at weekends needs to be tackled but proposals for seven day working must be ‘sensible and realistic’, the chair of the British Medical Association consultants committee has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalMidlands trust responsible for over half of patients waiting over 12 hours
University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust was responsible for 65 per cent of the patients in England waiting over 12 hours to be admitted from accident and emergency departments in January, according to NHS England figures.
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NewsColchester’s A&E rated ‘inadequate’ by CQC
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust’s accident and emergency department has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsNumber of NHS nursing staff hits record levels
The numbers of qualified nursing staff recruited by the NHS in England has reached record levels, with numbers increasing by more than 3,000 in a single month.
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NewsHSJ analysis: Fines for breaching A&E target could rise by over a third
Fines levied on hospitals for missing the accident and emergency waiting target could increase by more than 35 per cent under new rules proposed for the coming financial year, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsCabinet ministers focus on delayed transfers ahead of election
Ministers across government are focusing on attempting to cut the rate of delayed transfers of care in a renewed effort to improve accident and emergency performance ahead of the general election.
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CommentPoliticians must come clean on how they plan to fund the NHS of the future
The war for Number 10 begins
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HSJ Knowledge
Resource Centre round up: Improving urgent care
We have compiled a selection of our best commissioning, innovation and leadership articles over the past year, looking at the pressures facing emergency care and how organisations are dealing with it.
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CommentEnd Game: Wollaston blocks Tredinnick's 'path'
The Commons’ sense prevails, but then a trust chair decides to stand for UKIP
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News£240m technology fund raided to prop up A&E, sources say
The government has raided a £240m NHS technology fund to bolster financial support for hospitals struggling with accident and emergency demand this winter, senior sources have told HSJ.
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NewsTrusts forced to look overseas to plug paramedic gaps
Ambulance services across England are looking overseas to fill gaps in their paramedic workforce as trusts grapple with vacancy rates as high as 25 per cent, HSJ research has found.
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CommentUrgent care: we need a shared sense of scale
Tackling pressures bringing together disparate perspectives