All Patient safety articles – Page 153
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HSJ Local
Barts Health U-turn over whistleblower
A significant U-turn by the management of Barts Health Trust has seen a sacked whistleblowing union rep re-instated after being dismissed almost two years ago.
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HSJ KnowledgeChange Challenge video: Improving patient safety through collaboration
A large scale transformation programme
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NewsCreate patient safety body straight after election, say MPs
An independent national patient safety organisation to investigate clinical incidents in the NHS should be created immediately after the election, a committee of MPs has said.
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CommentPatients and service users must be part of the joint working jigsaw
From fragmented services to coordinated care
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NewsFull HCA registration 'inevitable', says care review author
New training standards for healthcare assistants should be made mandatory as part of a journey towards ‘inevitable’ full registration of the care workforce, the author of the Cavendish review has said.
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NewsLeading trusts defy NHS England over 'out of area' referrals
Teaching hospitals are continuing to refuse ‘out of area’ referrals in defiance of new rules from NHS England.
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NewsAvoidable harm bill becomes law today
A new law on avoidable harm in health and social care is set to receive royal assent today.
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NewsGMC to challenge 'lenient' misconduct decisions under new powers
The General Medical Council will be able to challenge ‘lenient’ decisions against doctors suspected of misconduct for the first time.
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HSJ KnowledgeAddress structural challenges to make thought diversity work
Diversity of thought needs to combined with a challenge to structural and systemic obstacles
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NewsExclusive: NHS Improving Quality expected to close
NHS Improving Quality is expected to be substantially cut back and could well be abolished under proposals being considered by a national review of the health service’s improvement organisations, HSJ understands.
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NewsExclusive: Councils withheld millions intended for NHS complaints
Sixteen local authorities failed to pass on hundreds of thousands of pounds specifically allocated by central government to fund NHS complaints advocacy services, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Morecambe Bay inquiry chair 'disappointed' by response
The chair of the inquiry into poor maternity care and deaths at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has said he was ‘disappointed’ by the response of professional bodies to his report.
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HSJ KnowledgeHospital mortality rates are a blunt instrument to measure avoidable death
Avoidable deaths mystery
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HSJ LocalDirector of nursing concerned about high number of patient falls
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham Trust plans to bring in low rise beds and visual aids for older people to prevent people sustaining injuries through falls.
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SupplementsHSJ commission final report: Are you doing enough for frail older people?
Putting questions to politicians, citizens and providers
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HSJ LocalCommissioners 'shocked' at hospital ward conditions
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners and governors visiting Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust have described a litany of problems found in one of its wards including overcrowding, staffing concerns and a failure to report incidents.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS Innovation Challenge: From small Acorns grow mighty winners
The entries impacting on patient care
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NewsRanked: Whipps Cross poorest hospital rated by CQC to date
Whipps Cross University Hospital is by one measure, the poorest hospital to be rated by the Care Quality Commission to date.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England drug delay led to ‘absolutely preventable’ deaths
A two year delay in NHS England drawing up a prescribing policy for a licensed drug has led to at least two ‘absolutely preventable’ deaths and more than 30 adults and children left at significant risk, HSJ has been told.