All Patient safety articles – Page 254
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Hygiene campaign extends reach
Following a focus on acute trusts, this month the National Patient Safety Agency's clean your hands campaign is extending out to primary care, mental health, care and ambulance trusts across England and Wales.
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HSJ Knowledge
Handling an inquest: a guide for NHS managers
Healthcare organisations need to prepare themselves for the challenges of dealing with an inquest, particularly in light of the Human Rights Act and the forthcoming Coroners Bill. Simon Tait and Barbara Anthony explain
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New guidance on hand hygiene
A film that shows NHS workers how to clean their hands properly has been sent out to all trusts.
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DH behind in Olympic planning race
Senior managers have attacked the Department of Health for failing to face the health and safety challenges of the 2012 Olympic games.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS60: The reinvention of hospitals
A ramshackle collection of impoverished hospitals dotted the NHS landscape in 1948. Anthony Harrison charts the transformation that has created the modern secondary care scene
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Heart surgery survival rates published
The Healthcare Commission has published updated heart surgery survival rates for 37 heart units in the UK.The figures show no unit has 'worse than expected' survival rates, 32 have 'as expected' rates and five 'better than expected'.
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Healthcare Commission warning on safety risk
Government proposals on regulation would weaken safety standards and allow risky services to operate without a licence, the healthcare watchdog has warned.
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Johnson calls for 'champions of quality'
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told managers they must be 'the champions of quality'.
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HSJ Knowledge
Anyone here a doctor who speaks nurse?
Tower of Babel-esque communication problems in the NHS are more than just a nuisance - they cost lives. How can the service prevent acronyms, tribes and egos putting patients at unavoidable risk, asks Mark Gould
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Trust breached hygiene code
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals trust has been issued with an improvement notice by the Healthcare Commission for breaching the hygiene code.
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Trusts sign up to patient safety campaign
One hundred trusts have pledged their support to a patient safety campaign launched at the NHS Confederation conference that aims to achieve 'no avoidable death, no avoidable harm'.
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Inquiry into manslaughter case criticises care
An independent inquiry into the treatment of a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions about prominent politicians and the royal family has criticised mental health services.
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Annual health check: PCTs let standards fall
Less than a quarter of primary care trusts believe their services have met all government quality standards.
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HSJ KnowledgeElective procedures: all in a day's work?
In July 2005, the Healthcare Commission set a target for all elective procedures: 75 per cent had to be day-case rates. While trusts should be striving to approach this figure, some still fall far short of this target.
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Neonatal unit failures spark calls for action
A failure to meet demand for neo-natal services has prompted calls for greater performance management and changes to commissioning.
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Hygiene code failures a 'wake-up call' says Healthcare Commission
NHS trusts have been served with a 'wake-up call' to improve hygiene standards or risk service closures, following the latest annual health check declarations.More than a quarter of trusts have told the Healthcare Commission they failed to comply fully with the hygiene code in 2007-08.
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Safety records
Regarding 'Those in Peril', I am pleased you report that 'enabling patients to check the accuracy of their own medical records... increases patient safety'.
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Assessment for venous thromboembolism
Regarding the HSJ investigation into levels of risk assessment for venous thromboembolism being undertaken for hospital inpatients, the all-party parliamentary thrombosis group was disheartened to hear that more than half of hospital trusts are failing to follow best practice guidelines that all patients receive this risk assessment on admission.
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Adult care threat
Congratulations on your leader responding to Sally Gainsbury's report on councils' potential loss of £7bn social care funds to the Department for Work and Pensions.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Ramsden on measurement
There is an old adage, 'if you can't measure it, you can't manage it', and measurement has been a big ingredient of NHS performance management.