All Patient dignity articles – Page 23
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HSJ Knowledge
How patient perspectives can help improve service design
Patient opinions are a precious source of information. Natalie Cook and Keith Miller explain how to make listening to them a fundamental part of service design.
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News
Overnight discharge data questioned as hospitals hit back
Misleading data has emerged as a possible explanation for claims that hospitals discharge large numbers of patients in the middle of the night.
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HSJ Local
Data breach trust fined £90,000
A health trust plans to appeal after being fined £90,000 because details of almost 60 patients were sent to the wrong person, the information watchdog said.
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HSJ Local
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare improves mixed sex figures
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has seen a slight decrease in breaches of the Department of Health’s rules on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
Dartford and Gravesham records five mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has seen a slight increase in breaches of the Department of Health’s rules on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
Slight fall in mixed sex breaches at Medway FT
PERFORMANCE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust has recorded a slight decrease in breaches of the Department of Health’s rules on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
Hike in mixed sex breaches at Western Sussex
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has experienced a significant increase in its breaches of the Department of Health’s rules on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
Mixed sex breaches stable at Brighton and Sussex
PERFORMANCE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has recorded the same number of breaches of the Department of Health’s rules on mixed sex accommodation for two consecutive months.
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News
Mixed-sex breaches rise across the NHS
The number of breaches of rules on mixed-sex NHS wards rose by 98 last month, according to new figures.
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News
'Concern' over pledge to give patients access to GP records
One of the leading figures in health information has cast doubt on the government’s ability to give all patients online access to their GP record by 2015.
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News
Leicester receives CQC rebuke over trolley waits
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has been issued with a Care Quality Commission warning notice after an inspection revealed lengthy trolley waits, resulting in “a lack of privacy and dignity”.
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News
RCN warns of treatment in corridors and long trolley waits
Patients are being routinely left on trolleys for hours and treated in corridors and other inappropriate areas, the Royal College of Nursing has warned in the wake of new survey results.
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HSJ Local
Chesterfield Royal units get upgrade
STRUCTURE: Work is due to begin next month on a major upgrade to the Women’s Health Unit and a maternity ward at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
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News
DH appoints civil servant to prepare for Mid Staffordshire report
A senior Whitehall civil servant has been put in charge of preparing the government’s response to the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry.
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News
PCTs failing to implement continence guidance
Primary care trusts are neglecting to assess need and implement national guidance when it comes to continence services, according to a national audit.
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HSJ Knowledge
Four principles to improve the care of older patients
Ian Philp offers four key principles for overhauling services for ageing patients.
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HSJ Local
Improved complaints response at Northampton General
PERFORMANCE: Northampton General Hospital Trust has improved its response to complaints from patients, according to a new report.
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News
More patients report nurse shortages on wards
More hospital patients are reporting shortages of nursing staff on the wards, the latest national inpatient survey has revealed.
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News
NHS private patient units let down by 'customer service'
Weak customer service is a greater obstacle to NHS hospitals increasing their private work than the “barriers” being investigated by competition authorities, the UK’s largest medical insurer has claimed.
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News
Hospitals to review discharge policies
David Cameron will today call for patients to be treated with dignity and respect as hospitals are told to end the practice of discharging vulnerable people from wards during the night.