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Pandemic’s role blamed for trust’s 1,955 mixed-sex ward breaches
East Kent University Hospitals Foundation Trust reported 1,955 mixed sex accommodation breaches in November, the month before the new variant of the virus caused a huge increase in covid admissions across the county.
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Vax sites offered more staff to record jabs as IT system struggles with ‘exceptional demand’
Ongoing problems with a major IT system which tracks covid-19 vaccinations have forced NHS chiefs to fund more staff to ensure inoculations are accurately recorded, HSJ has learned.
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Trusts told to treat more covid-19 patients at home
Hospitals should ramp up their treatment of covid-19 patients at home to free up more beds during the peak of the pandemic, under plans announced by NHS England/Improvement.
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Covid infections caught in hospital up by half in a week
Covid-19 infections likely to have been caught in hospital have increased by almost half in a week, with several trusts seeing significant rises, HSJ can reveal.
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Hospitals told to involve engineers in ‘clinical decisions’ about oxygen
Trusts have been told to involve specialist gas engineers in their clinical decisions amid “very high demands” for oxygen services.
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CQC ‘monitoring’ patient safety after trust rations oxygen
The Care Quality Commission is “closely monitoring” a covid-challenged trust over fears for patient safety sparked by oxygen rationing.
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Hard-hit region has more than twice as many critical care patients as last winter
One NHS region now has double the number of critical care patients it did last winter — and all areas are more full than last year — HSJ analysis shows.
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Revealed: Tests on staff to track how well covid vaccines are working
Vaccinated health and care staff who are asymptomatic will continue to be routinely tested for covid-19 under plans to measure vaccine effectiveness, HSJ has learned.
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Trust boss warns region faces ‘absolute crisis’ with trusts ‘hanging on by their fingernails’
Hospital chiefs in the South West have warned the region will not avoid the extreme pressures felt by other parts of the NHS, amid rapidly rising numbers of covid-19 inpatients.
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NHS forced into 'daily export' of critically-ill patients from covid-saturated trusts
Dozens of patients are being transferred between intensive care units every week as covid pressure mounts on hospitals, HSJ has been told.
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All acutes across swathe of south east set to see at least 33pc covid occupancy
At least a third of beds are set to be filled with covid patients by new year’s eve, at all the acute trusts across three connected health systems.
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Clinicians warn of ‘serious’ safety risk at crowded teaching hospital
Staff at a teaching hospital which has struggled with emergency care pressure this winter have warned that patient safety is being compromised as crowding is becoming “normalised”.
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Doctors use pandemic as excuse not to offer effective pain relief claim campaigners
Women are undergoing ‘painful and distressing’ diagnostic tests as doctors use the covid-19 pandemic as an excuse not to offer them their choice of pain relief, HSJ has been told.
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Troubled children’s service taken out of special measures
An independent children’s and adolescents’ mental health service has been taken out of special measures after cutting beds by two-thirds.
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Covid infections caught in hospital rise by a third in one week
The number of people likely to have caught covid-19 in NHS hospitals in England has risen by more than a third in the last week.
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Government finally accepts need for ‘independent’ national patient safety commissioner
The government has accepted the need for a new ‘patient safety commissioner’, according to the author of a safety review commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Doctors claim major infection control ‘deficiencies’ at region’s hospitals
Research by a group of doctors has found ‘major deficiencies’ around infection control within hospitals in the North West region.
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Exclusive: CQC to ramp up inspections of trusts’ infection control
Trusts’ infection control measures will be put under greater scrutiny by the Care Quality Commission, HSJ has been told.
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Hospital acquired covid infections hit record high
The number of covid-19 infections likely to have been acquired in hospital are rising again for the first time in three weeks and their proportion of all cases has reached record levels for the second wave, HSJ can reveal.
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Trusts should have 'oversight' of neighbouring providers, says damning safety review
A report into 250 cases of poor maternity care at a scandal hit trust has found ‘a lack of kindness and compassion’ from midwifery staff.