All Patient safety articles – Page 160
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NewsCourt rules doctors must consult patients over resuscitation orders
BREAKING: Patients have a new legal right to be consulted before doctors place ‘do not attempt resuscitation’ orders in their notes
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NewsExclusive: CQC set to take on patient safety from NHS England
The Care Quality Commission has been asked to consider taking on the patient safety role from NHS England, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCCGs target steep cuts in avoidable admissions and deaths
Clinical commissioning groups have set themselves ambitious targets to cut avoidable admissions and improve patient experience over the next five years, plans submitted to NHS England reveal.
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NewsPlans for nurse staffing data unclear
NHS England has still not worked out how to present trusts’ nurse staffing data on NHS Choices, less than two weeks before it is due to publish the information for the first time.
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SupplementsWe need to come together for cancer care to stop the confusing commissioning
Too many are responsible
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NewsTrusts ordered to delete incorrect datafields
The government body in charge of safeguarding patient information has ordered a significant number of trusts to delete a series of datafields.
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HEE 'undervalues' the role of doctors
Health Education England has been accused of undervaluing the role doctors play in the wider NHS after it revealed plans to switch funding to non-medical roles.
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SupplementsRadiology special report: In search of a clear picture
Departments face greater demand but have less money
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NewsWilful neglect offence to become law by 2015
Wilful neglect could become a criminal offence next year after the government last night tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.
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NewsLorenzo implementation linked to data delays
Three of the seven trusts that were unable to provide waiting times data in time for its planned publication by NHS England last month linked the delay to the implementation of the Lorenzo electronic record system, a technology the Department of Health has paid trusts to adopt.
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NewsBurnham: Mid Staffs is being used to drive privatisation
The government is using the Mid Staffordshire scandal to soften up the NHS for privatisation, the shadow health secretary has said
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CommentHow to make the NHS constitution a reality on the front line
We all have a duty to implement its values
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CommentTake staff support seriously with Schwartz rounds
Rounds make unbearable aspects of care giving bearable
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SupplementsTelehealth special report: Remote control of care
The NHS needs to operate a model where patients are monitored in their homes with technology
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CommentCentralisation is crucial to achieve better care locally
The politics must be taken out of the NHS
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NewsInfection fears after baby death
Health officials cannot rule out that other babies might have been infected by the nutritional food product which has been “strongly linked” to the death of one baby and the illness of 14 others.
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HSJ KnowledgeSenior staff cover means earlier discharges
Equal attention should be paid to evening cover as at weekends
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NewsHealth information agency chokes data flow
The government agency that distributes NHS data to external research bodies has choked the flow of information while it conducts a wide-ranging review, sparking “frustration” among the researchers and charities which rely on the data.
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CommentVideo: Experts discuss why they are taking part in HSJ's commission
They talk about HSJ’s landmark commission