All Patient safety articles – Page 268
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New hospital for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
Health secretary Alan Johnson announced yesterday that a preferred bidder had been appointed to build a new £228m hospital at infection-hit Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals trust.
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Michael White on nursing standards
I didn't know whether to laugh or make plans to flee the country when I read weekend front-page headlines such as 'Nurses to have the power to end a life'
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Darzi blames poor leaders for hospital infection outbreaks
Minimising hospital-acquired infections should be the responsibility of managers, junior health minister Lord Darzi has told the Commons health select committee.
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Hospitals accused of failing to clean ambulances
Dirty ambulances could be spreading infections because crews do not have time to clean them between call-outs, unions have revealed.
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Infection figures 'offer hope'
Hospitals in England may be beginning to win the battle against infections, latest figures suggest.
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Night-time accidents total 140,000
Last year, 140,000 cases of slips, trips and medical errors happened at night to patients receiving NHS care, a new survey claims.
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Your Humble Servant: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
Whoever said the British had no stomach for public executions? Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has demonstrated just how popular they can be.
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Keogh joins HSJ patient safety congress
NHS medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh will be among the speakers at next year's inaugural Patient Safety Congress, which is being organised by HSJ and its sister title Nursing Times.
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Behind closed doors: is Kent infection scandal a one-off?
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells’ Clostridium difficiledeaths drew intense scrutiny. Alison Moore looks at what went wrong, how it was kept quiet and lessons for the rest of the service
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Maidstone chair aims to regain trust of staff
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has announced the appointment of an interim chair to steer it through the aftermath of the fatal outbreak of Clostridium difficile.
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New measures to improve cleanliness in Welsh hospitals
Unannounced spot checks will be undertaken in Welsh hospitals in a bid to improve cleanliness, it was announced yesterday by health minister Edwina Hart.The new checks will be done by teams from independent watchdog Healthcare Inspectorate Wales.
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Occupancy rates raise infection risk, say Lib Dems
Almost half of NHS trusts have bed occupancy rates that put patients at risk of contracting healthcare-acquired infections, according to the Liberal Democrats.
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C difficile rates were known, claim Tories
The government knew about Clostridium difficile rates at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust well in advance of their publication earlier this month, the Conservative Party has claimed.
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Comment
Media Watch: Rose Gibb special
There's nothing the media likes more than an easy target and this week's was Rose Gibb, formerly chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, aka 'the dirtiest hospital in England'.
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Health check: trusts miss hygiene goals
Trusts have failed to hit targets for reducing MRSA and many are not meeting basic standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
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Former Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells chair was 'hung out to dry'
The chair of the hospital trust at the centre of an infection control scandal has attacked centralised control of the NHS as he stepped down.
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MRSA target has built-in 'wiggle room'
The government has given trusts some 'wiggle room' to maintain the new MRSA public service agreement beyond the target date of 2008.
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One in four hospital trusts not hitting infection control targets
A quarter of hospital trusts in England are failingto meet new standards on infection control, according the Healthcare Commission's annual health check.Forty-four trusts were not complying with one or all aspects of the hygiene code, standards seen as key after the recent deaths from hospital infections.
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Comment
Safety studies must consider cost
Stephen Thornton's acerbic response in HSJ in September to my concerns about the patient safety industry engenders even greater concerns about this policy area, writes Alan Maynard
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Ramsden on doctors leading patient safety
Doctors' involvement in a hospital's patient safety drive is bringing about transformation, says Stephen Ramsden