All Patient safety articles – Page 10
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News
Revealed: The specialties with rocketing litigation costs
Litigation costs for specialties including intensive care, oncology and emergency medicine have rocketed by up to five times as much as they were before the pandemic, internal data obtained by HSJ reveals.
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Comment
Social investment funding: a lifeline for the NHS
The potential for social investment has been demonstrated on an individual service level and now is the time for it to fuel ICS-wide innovation funding to support transformation and improve patient care, writes Katy Nex
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HSJ Partners
Designing better acute painful sickle cell care
Dr Carl Reynolds and Dr Habib Naqvi emphasise the need of improving sickle cell care by developing highly usable digital care plans, eliminating treatment delays and disparities, and ensuring patients receive timely analgesia
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News
CQC in legal battle with private provider over ‘inadequate’ report
An independent patient transport provider is taking legal action against the Care Quality Commission after an inspection led to it being unable to operate in many areas for nearly three months.
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Expert Briefing
Impatient: The dilemma of patient leaders in pursuit of justice and equality
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this new monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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Comment
Enshrining visiting rights in law
Julia Jones highlights the proposed bill granting patients the right to a care supporter, emphasising patient choice while elaborating on the cross-party support and endorsements from various organisations
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News
London gives way on consultant strike cover pay
London trusts have been told they can pay almost triple the usual rate for consultant cover during this week’s junior doctors’ strike.
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News
Revealed: the trusts with the highest locum usage
The heavy reliance of mental health trusts on locum doctors has been laid bare by new research suggesting four of the five trusts with the highest locum usage were providers from this sector.
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News
Police examining ‘medical malpractice’ at teaching hospital
Police are looking into a number of patient deaths at a leading tertiary centre, HSJ has learned.
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News
Met intervention ‘will not serve London well’, says ‘very disappointed’ NHSE
NHS England has described the Metropolitan Police commissioner’s warning that his force will stop responding to emergency mental health calls as ‘very disappointing’, HSJ has learned.
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News
A lot more ICSs will hit financial targets this year, says NHSE chief
NHS England’s chief finance officer has said he expects ‘a lot more’ integrated care systems to hit their spending plans in the current year than in the past.
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HSJ Local
Error causes 800 patients to be wrongly removed from waiting list
A trust is carrying out a review after hundreds of patients were wrongly removed from the waiting list and potentially missed out on treatment.
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News
IT ‘crash’ hits 1,000s of GP practices
An IT system used by thousands of general practices has suffered major technical problems today, with GPs struggling to access patient records and give prescriptions.
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Comment
Crisis deepens as government fails to restore rehab space
Urgent action is needed as the government’s failure to restore rehab space is leading to dire consequences for patients, staff, and the healthcare system, exacerbating waiting lists and compromising patient care
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News
‘Over a year behind’ on key maternity target, NHSE admits
Pregnant women and new mothers are facing wide variation in access to mental health support, new figures suggest, as NHS England admits national performance on a key long-term plan goal to expand services is ‘over a year behind trajectory’.
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News
Trust loses £85m contract for local services after winning work 200 miles away
A foundation trust has lost an £85m contract to provide healthcare services in its local prisons to a private company, after taking over the same services from the same company 230 miles away.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Nurses divided
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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News
‘Unreserved apology’ issued to national cancer director over ‘dishonest’ claim
Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust deputy chief executive Andy Welch, has issued an ‘unreserved apology’ over his public criticism of remarks made by NHSE national cancer director Dame Cally Palmer.
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News
NHSE begins rollout of mandatory outcomes registry
NHS and private providers have until the end of the year to start submitting all data on all surgeries that include a high-risk medical device by year-end into NHS England’s new mandatory medical device outcome registry.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: ‘Culture of impunity’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.