All Patient safety articles – Page 265
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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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News
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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News
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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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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News
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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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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News
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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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.
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News
Academics slam two-tier corporate manslaughter legislation
The exclusion of sectioned patients from a new law aimed at protecting people from dangerous management practices is being condemned as 'scandalous'.
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Hygiene code going unnoticed by most trusts
Less than a quarter of clinicians say their trusts are complying with infection control laws.
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Leader
DH must step in to protect the vulnerable
The government needs to rethink its plan to exclude sectioned mental health patients from the protection of the Corporate Manslaughter Act for up to five years.
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West Midlands and South East Coast set out Darzi visions
NHS West Midlands has identified ‘seven big challenges’ for healthcare in the region, including an ‘unjustifiable variability’ in the safety and quality of services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Assessing independent sector performance
A broad survey of data from independent healthcare providers across the UK has revealed the sector's staffing levels, bed spaces and hospital-acquired infection rates. Sally Taber examines the results
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News
Stephen Ramsden addresses Patient Safety Congress
NHS managers have been urged to pressurise chief executives to make patient safety their organisation's top priority.
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Bruce Keogh speaks at Patient Safety Congress
Managers are still treating patient safety as 'subordinate' to money despite the health service's £1.8bn underspend, according to the NHS medical director.
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Safer culture is taking root
Your cover story identified a disparity between where NHS staff and leaders feel patient safety is on boards' priorities, writes Martin Fletcher
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News
SHA releases psychiatric killers' reports
Two reports into psychiatric patients who killed have been released by NHS East of England - more than five years after the incidents.
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Patient records neglect
We are not surprised to learn of the wide disparities between trusts when it comes to the availability of patient records revealed by your investigation, writes Tracy Steadman
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News
Hospital trusts failing to check inpatients' risk of deadly clots
More than half of hospital trusts are not carrying out government-backed checks for vascular conditions that kill around 25,000 people a year. Only 29 per cent of trusts carry out checks for all inpatients.
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Nicholson tells Patient Safety Congress: create a safety culture
Chief executives have been told to create an environment where staff can report safety incidents instead of being ‘hung up to dry’.