All Patient safety articles – Page 16
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NewsTrust told to pay more than £200k over dementia patient’s death
A hospital trust has been told to pay almost a quarter of a million pounds after pleading guilty to failing to provide safe care to a patient with advanced dementia who fatally injured himself.
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NewsChildren getting ‘conveyor belt’ care due to waiting list pressure
The pressure to tackle long waiting lists in children’s community services is impacting care quality, clinical leaders have warned.
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NewsRevealed: ‘How NHSE plans to split trust if turnaround fails’
Options around the future of a troubled mental health trust are set to be presented to ministers by the end of next month.
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HSJ PartnersHow trusts are saving thousands of hours, which can be spent with patients instead
Guy Lucchi on how the CareFlow electronic patient record can help clinicians provide safer and more efficient care while spending more time with patients
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NewsHancock WhatsApp coverage ‘distressing’, says ICS chief
Media coverage of Matt Hancock’s leaked WhatsApp messages and the government’s response to the pandemic ‘can be distressing’ for NHS staff and others, a respected system leader has said.
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NewsMaternity unit downgraded to ‘inadequate’ and handed warning notice
A trust has been issued with a warning notice after the Care Quality Commission raised concerns about parts of its maternity services.
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NewsLeap in staff scared to report safety concerns
NHS staff are significantly less comfortable raising concerns and are less confident in their organisation to address them, the service’s annual staff survey has revealed.
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NewsTrust spent £680k in failed attempt to fight whistleblower
A trust spent £460,000 on legal fees trying to fight a patient safety whistleblowing case that it lost, it can be revealed.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Tooting or Waterloo?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentThe answer to improving urgent mental healthcare
Figuring out the best way to help people experiencing a mental health crisis to access the care they need is not a new challenge
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CommentNHS needs to work with data and analysis from beyond healthcare
A cancer study that relates consumer and retail data to healthcare highlights the potential of the NHS joining forces with commercial entities to activate the behavioural data they collect and own to build better population health strategies, explains Andi Orlowski
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CommentHow ICBs can help people die at home
Ruth Robertson highlights the need for ICBs to work through immediate pressures to deliver good quality and coordinated end-of-life care services
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HSJ LocalTrust staves off break-up calls after CQC upgrade
A troubled trust has most likely secured a reprieve from being broken up after the Care Quality Commission upgraded its rating, but its leaders accept they still have a ‘long way to go’.
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CommentGovernment and NHSE need to start listening to patients
Dr Henrietta Hughes sheds light on the disconnect between the executive corridor and what patients experience.
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NewsTrust ‘missed opportunities’ to prevent sex offender working as locum
A trust has admitted it ‘missed opportunities’ to identify that a locum doctor – who was arrested on hospital premises for two sexual offences — had already been cautioned for indecent exposure.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Alarms ignored, with fatal consequences
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance, and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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NewsAmerican firm named as sole supplier for £20m framework
NHS trusts could spend up to £20m on new infection control systems provided by an American healthcare giant, after a new framework has been launched.
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HSJ LocalCelebrated service closes six years after opening
The closure of a much-celebrated mental health unit just six years after it opened demonstrates the struggle trusts have faced in utilising new investment into the sector, a local leader said.
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NewsNurses to walk out of emergency departments for 48 hours
Nurses will walk out of emergency departments, intensive care units and cancer care services for the first time in the next wave of strike action.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Where’s the harm?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.