All Patient dignity articles – Page 22
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HSJ Local
Stepping Hill has 'excellent' patient environment
PERFORMANCE: Stepping Hill Hospital has scored the highest possible rating for its patient environment in an independent inspection.
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HSJ Local
PEAT scores mostly ‘good’ at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust scored two “good” ratings and an “excellent” in the latest round of Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) inspections.
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HSJ Local
Top PEAT scores for Western Sussex
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has been awarded the highest possible ratings in the latest annual Patient Experience Action Team (PEAT) scores.
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CommentHelping the NHS plan for positive patient experience
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust chief medical officer Jonathan Fielden asks Stephen Murphy what Virgin can teach the NHS about customer care and innovation to practice.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy staff policy should revolve around patient needs
The Royal College of Nursing’s head of policy and international Howard Catton talks to Ruslan Zinchenko about designing staffing policies based on patient need.
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NewsPCTs restricting access to sexual health services - report
MPs have warned the government that soem trusts are actively restricting women from accessing contraceptive services, in a new report published today.
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NewsEnd-of-life care pathway 'used to cut costs'
Hospitals may be withholding food and drink from older patients so they die quicker to cut costs and save on bad spaces, leading doctors have warned.
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CommentThe NHS must address its blind spot on older people's services
End ageism and care will improve for all.
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NewsExclusive: private franchise tops first 'friends and family' chart
Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has been rated joint top in the inaugural results of “friends and family” patient satisfaction test, recently endorsed by the prime minister.
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NewsSerious drug shortages at four in five trusts
Patients struggle to obtain drugs for life-threatening conditions in 80 per cent of NHS trusts in England and Wales, a survey suggests.
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CommentThe challenge ahead: why we must involve patients in their care
The NHS must make shared decision making a reality.
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HSJ Local
Four MSA breaches at Aintree in March, commissioners report
PERFORMANCE: The trust had four unjustified breaches of the national bar on mixed sex accomodation in March, commissioner board papers show.
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NewsManagers should work out of hours, says dignity report
NHS managers need to be more available outside normal office hours in order to improve the care of older patients, a new report has recommended.
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HSJ Knowledge
The benefits to CCGs from sharing patient information
Sean Riddell explains why sharing patient information is vital in the new NHS and how clinical commissioning groups can make it happen on the ground.
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NewsMeasures to tackle patient age discrimination imposed
Age discrimination against NHS patients is to be made illegal, ministers have confirmed.
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NewsSocial care cuts increasing risk to older people - survey
Older people are being put at risk because of “dangerous” cuts to home-based care which could cost the country billions of pounds, a leading charity has warned.
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HSJ Local
Record fine for data breach to be appealed
PERFORMANCE: A south coast hospital trust is to appeal against a decision to fine it £325,000 for a serious breach of the Data protection Act.
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HSJ Local
Trust investigation after death of baby delivered on floor
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust is investigating the death of a baby after his mother was forced to give birth on a day room floor because midwives were too busy to see her.
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CommentPatient preferences matter: another call for doctors to change
Do clinicians really know what patients want?
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NewsNew patient rating system plans welcomed
Patients will be able to rate the treatment they receive in hospitals to ensure that people are treated with dignity and respect on wards, the prime minister will announce today.