All Patient safety articles – Page 26
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NewsBig expansion of nurse and doctor training planned by Labour
Labour would use revenue from reversal of the abolition of the 45 per cent rate of income tax to fund “one of the largest NHS workforce expansions in history,” the shadow chancellor has announced.
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HSJ Partners
Extending the boundaries of healthcare with virtual hospitals
As video technology has matured in recent years, so it has been able to play an increasingly central role in providing healthcare at a distance alongside a new generation of digital tools. Many of the legacy objections to its use were overruled by the necessity of continuing patient care remotely ...
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NewsStaffing shortages force NHSE to abandon safety target
NHS England has this week told trusts it is abandoning a patient safety target ‘until maternity services in England can demonstrate sufficient staffing levels’ to meet it.
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HSJ InteractiveImproving patient flow to help tackle the elective backlog
Patient flow will be one of the big challenges for NHS managers over the coming year. Ensuring that patients move swiftly through a hospital is vital to avoid blockages at accident and emergency – including ambulance handover delays – and to make best use of available bed capacity. Without this, ...
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NewsNHSE director: ‘Overwhelmingly negative narrative must stop’
NHS England’s chief strategy officer has called for a “reset” of the current “overwhelmingly negative narrative” about the health service.
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CommentThe uncomfortable truth about the CQC
An employment tribunal has just found the Care Quality Commission guilty of unfairly dismissing a whistleblower. Roger Kline examines the case and is implications.
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NewsStaff shortages force most trusts to suspend NHSE maternity care model
More than two-thirds of trusts have been forced to suspend or pause a high-profile service improvement aimed at reducing neonatal and maternal deaths, because of widespread staffing shortages.
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NewsFormer chief inspector set to chair safety watchdog
The former chief inspector of hospitals has been named the government’s preferred candidate to chair the Health Services Safety Investigations Body.
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NewsGovt to add trusts with unsafe roofs to ‘40 new hospitals’ programme
Several trusts with dangerous structural planks are set to be selected for the government’s flagship hospital building programme, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalScandal trust's comms director suspended
A trust’s director of communications has been suspended from her role following reports she blocked bereaved parents on social media.
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NewsSafety fears prompt NHS trusts to support troubled independent provider
Five East Midlands trusts are working with the country’s largest independent mental health provider in a bid to improve service quality, amid concerns patient safety would have been put at risk if they had not stepped in.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: A summer of ‘pressure, stress and anxiety’
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsGovernment examines surge in ‘potentially preventable’ deaths
Department of Health and Social Care officials are concerned that many more people are dying than expected in recent months – particularly older working-age people – with NHS care delays and interruptions a likely cause.
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HSJ LocalInternal memo warns of ‘increasingly common’ deaths in A&E
Senior doctors have raised concerns about the numbers of patients now dying in their A&E department due to extreme operational pressures.
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NewsNew approach to safety incidents will see fewer investigations
Major reforms have been set out on how NHS organisations should respond to patient safety incidents, with the aim of ensuring better engagement with patients and families.
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NewsExclusive: NHS chiefs fear cyber attackers have accessed patient data
Criminals have issued ‘demands’ to an NHS IT supplier targeted by a cyber attack, leading health chiefs to fear they have accessed confidential patient data, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrusts face three weeks of ‘very dangerous’ IT disruption after cyber attack
Mental health trusts are facing reduced access to vulnerable patients’ records for at least three weeks after a cyber attack on an NHS IT supplier, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCEO of national NHS agency resigns ahead of CQC report
NHS Blood and Transplant’s chief executive has resigned ahead of the release of a Care Quality Commission report into the agency’s leadership.
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NewsMultiple reporting systems undermine patient safety, says watchdog
A single system to report patient safety concerns would “keep people safer”, a newly appointed NHS watchdog has told HSJ.
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CommentThe scandal of 10,000 NHS SOSR dismissals
Narinder Kapur emphasises on the need for an urgent inquiry, into how many of the 10,000 NHS SOSR dismissals were on the basis of ‘Kangaroo Courts’, and how many involved vulnerable groups such as whistleblowers and minority ethnic staff