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NewsMajor scaling back of infection control measures announced
A significant relaxation of infection control guidance has been announced in a bid to free up more capacity to tackle substantial waiting lists and demand for emergency care.
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HSJ LocalCQC downgrade leaves teaching trust CEO feeling ‘devastated’
A major teaching trust has been rated ‘inadequate’ for safety, after an unannounced inspection found senior leaders did not intervene quickly enough to address patient care issues.
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HSJ LocalA&E patients waiting more than two days for a bed, warns leaked letter
A clinical director and several senior managers have written to a trust CEO warning that patients are routinely waiting more than 60 hours to be admitted to a ward from accident and emergency, leaving staff “crying with frustration and anger”.
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NewsScandal inquiry issues 15 actions for trusts nationally
Repeated care and governance failures were routinely ignored by a hospital trust where poor maternity care resulted in almost 300 avoidable baby deaths or brain damage cases, the most damning review of maternity services in the NHS’s history finds today.
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NewsAcute trust fined £111,000 over 91-year-old's 'awful' injuries
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has been fined more than £100,000 after it pleaded guilty to causing an elderly patient avoidable harm.
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NewsThird acute trust to be prosecuted by CQC
The Care Quality Commission is to prosecute an acute trust after a patient was injured when allegedly exposed to ‘avoidable harm’.
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NewsNew pandemic record for hospital-acquired covid rates
A record proportion of covid cases recorded in English NHS hospitals in the latest week were most likely caught by patients who were being treated for other illnesses, new figures reveal.
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NewsPrivate hospital rated ‘inadequate’ again amid safety concerns
A mental health hospital that was placed in special measures last year has been rated “inadequate” again after an inspection raised concerns including unsafe ward environments and staff not managing patient risks well.
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News‘Rasputin-like’ characters dominated safety watchdog
The leadership of a national watchdog was dominated by ‘Rasputin-like’ characters and displayed many of the bullying behaviours it was set up to help prevent in the NHS, according to multiple former staff.
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HSJ LocalLassa fever case sparks ‘major incident’ across region’s NHS
The East of England region has declared a major incident due to a case of Lassa fever at a major teaching hospital knocking out significant critical care capacity, HSJ can reveal.
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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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NewsCap on legal costs for negligence cases to save £600m
The government is pushing ahead with long-standing plans for a new cap on legal costs for lower value clinical negligence cases, which it predicts could save £600m spread over the next 10 years.
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NewsNew national body to take powers from scandal-hit watchdog
The health secretary has announced a new national body to carry out ‘independent’ and ‘family-focused’ investigations of maternity services.
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NewsNHS England admits it will miss cancer backlog target
The NHS will miss its target for clearing the backlog of long waiters for cancer, NHS England’s national director has conceded.
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NewsExclusive: Bullying, sexism and racism ‘prevalent and tolerated’ at national regulator
An external review into the national safety watchdog has revealed ‘damaging’ cultural problems, including bullying, sexism and racism which go ‘right to the top of the organisation’.
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NewsHospital-acquired covid on course for pandemic record
The NHS is on course to record the highest proportion of hospital-acquired covid infections across any single month of the pandemic so far.
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NewsGovernment seeks patient safety commissioner to ’set example of integrity and ethical leadership’
The government has launched recruitment for the first patient safety commissioner for England, revealing the successful candidate could work part-time.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read patient safety stories of 2021
As 2021 draws to a close, HSJ takes a look at its most read patient safety stories of the year.
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NewsConfusion surrounds position of NHS legal chief accused of ‘inappropriate’ behaviour
The government has refused to clarify the position of NHS Resolution chair Martin Thomas – who stepped down from his role as head of the Charity Commission last week after allegations of ‘inappropriate behaviour’.
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NewsWe can’t suspend all staff who may pose risk to patients, says government
The government has rejected advice from an independent inquiry into the actions of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson to suspend all healthcare professionals who are suspected of posing a risk to patient safety.