All Patient safety articles – Page 150
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NewsExclusive: NICE suspends work on nurse staffing levels
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has suspended with immediate effect its work to determine safe staffing levels across the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeStructure patient data to enhance clinical care
The importance of swift and accurate data capture and processing
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NewsStevens interview: Dealing with agency staff is NHS’s ‘biggest operational risk’
NHS trusts will ‘undoubtedly’ struggle to employ the doctors and nurses they need as the service clamps down on the cost of temporary staff from next month, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has told HSJ.
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NewsHunt to intervene on agency spending
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will today unveil plans to cap agency and management consultancy spending by NHS trusts.
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NewsGovernment considers cap on 'egregious' agency spend
A cap on the cost of agency staff supplied to NHS trusts is being explored by the Cabinet Office and Department of Health in an attempt to tackle the ballooning agency spend in the NHS, it has emerged.
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NewsBennett moots rethink on performance targets
David Bennett has called for the NHS to investigate the possibility of redefining key access targets to reduce the financial burden they place on providers – where it can be done without compromising safety.
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LeaderModernisers must cut the deficit to keep their side of the deal
The ‘excuses’ for not delivering the forward view have been swept away
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HSJ LocalTrust to axe 400 jobs in £14m savings bid
WORKFORCE: More than 250 posts have been axed during the last 12 months at a West Midlands foundation trust in a bid to save £7.5m.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Specialist service changes an ‘unmitigated disaster’, says review
COMMISSIONING: An independent investigation into the collapse of a specialist service at a large teaching hospital trust has described the handling of changes by commissioners and providers as an ‘unmitigated disaster’, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentAppease tech fears by speaking the NHS clinical language
Overcoming anxieties about implementing IT systems
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NewsRevealed: Mental health pledge to be funded from existing budgets
A pledge by the home secretary to invest £15m in new health based places of safety to detain people experiencing mental health crisis will be funded from existing budgets, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalMidwife struck off for ‘numerous failings’ at Morecambe Bay
WORKFORCE: The first midwife facing a fitness to practise case in relation to baby deaths at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has been struck off.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England proposes new rare condition drug access rules
NHS England is set to publish new guidance, described by charities as ‘life saving’, on access to licensed drugs for patients with rare conditions and in ‘critical need’, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalTrust plans £1m nurse recruitment drive
WORKFORCE: Wirral University Teaching Hospitalls is planning to invest £1m in recruiting registered nurses over the next 12 months.
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HSJ KnowledgeBacked by facts: Integrated care is king
Integrated care is an effective delivery model for people with long term conditions
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Trust fears for future of specialist children’s service
An acute trust that saw its adult dermatology service closed earlier this year fears its children’s dermatology service is also under threat.
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CommentBalancing the books while keeping services safe is hard but necessary
Ministers under pressure
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Five 'never events' spark Royal College of Surgeons review
QUALITY: Bolton Foundation Trust has asked the Royal College of Surgeons to review its services after reporting five ‘never events’ in the last year.
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NewsRevealed: High level fears over patient consent abuse
The Care Quality Commission and NHS England have raised concerns that the current system for securing patient consent for treatment is open to abuse. It comes amid allegations that some doctors have retrospectively altered consent forms, HSJ can reveal.