All articles by Rebecca Thomas – Page 5
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Revealed: Beds for children hit ‘crisis point’ amid covid demand surge
Availability of inpatient child and adolescent mental health services beds — particularly for eating disorders — has reached ‘crisis point’, with young people left waiting on a standard paediatric ward or at home as demand surged during the covid pandemic.
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Mental Health Matters: Relying on ‘clinical discretion’
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‘Worrying’ gap in vaccination rates for over 80s with learning disabilities
Experts have warned that vulnerable groups risk getting ‘missed out’ after data has revealed a ‘worrying’ gap in vaccination rates for those with a learning disability and severe mental illness.
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Exclusive: More than 100,000 waiting for ‘urgent’ operations
More than 100,000 people were waiting for ‘urgent’ priority two operations in late January, as planned care rates plummeted amid the covid third wave, according to NHS data seen by HSJ.
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NHS England faces ‘external review’ of private sector covid contracts
There will be an ‘external review’ into the national capacity contracts with the private sector during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leaked NHS England document.
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Exclusive: Multiple whistleblowers flag ‘heartbreaking’ incidents at major trust
Clinicians within a major teaching hospital’s cancer services have raised multiple concerns over patient safety, which they believe have resulted from badly planned service changes in response to the covid crisis.
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Exclusive: Urgent children’s ops routinely cancelled due to covid pressure
Dozens and potentially hundreds of urgent operations for children have been cancelled during the third wave of the covid pandemic, HSJ can reveal.
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Midlands moves to ‘super surge’ intensive care capacity
Hospitals in the Midlands are making a final expansion to their critical care capacity that would reach the limit of what they are able to provide.
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GPs receive 'urgent' call to volunteer for work in crisis-hit ITU
GPs in Birmingham have been sent an “urgent” plea to assist in their acute trust’s crisis hit critical care services, HSJ can reveal.
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Doctors at covid crisis trust accused of dodging ICU work
A medical leader at England’s largest acute trust has warned fellow doctors that its ‘priority is now [intensive care] at [the] expense of dropping all activities’, and suggested that some are avoiding critical care work.
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200 Army medics and personnel drafted into Midlands hospitals
Around 200 army medics and other personnel have been sent to work in hospitals in the Midlands, HSJ understands.
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City ‘under the cosh’ from covid forced to admit adults to children’s critical care unit
Liverpool has been forced to re-open a paediatric intensive care unit to adults as the NHS chief executive warned the city was “right back under the cosh” from the third wave of the pandemic.
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NHS England pushes for more private capacity and cancels planning round
NHS England has told local leaders to outline plans to use up to 100 per cent of their private sector capacity from next week.
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Thousands of London’s 999 calls answered by other regions
Thousands of calls have been redirected from London’s ambulance trust to providers in other regions in “unprecedented” levels of sustained support, leaked data has revealed.
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NHS England: Hospitals must ‘surge’ ICU so other regions don’t have to ration care
NHS England has asked hospitals across the country to open hundreds more intensive care beds so they can take in patients from the hardest hit areas, to prevent those patches having to ration access.
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Trust with largest ICU redeploys 200 doctors as it faces being ‘overwhelmed’
The trust with the country’s largest intensive care unit capacity is set to redeploy 200 doctors as it faces being “overwhelmed” by covid-19 patients.
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NHSE orders further dilution of staffing ratios to help double ICU capacity
NHS England has told hospitals in the Midlands to further dilute their staffing ratios so critical care capacity can be doubled, HSJ has learned.
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Trainees deployed to wards as overseas recruitment ‘blown out the water’
A trust in the Midlands says its international recruitment plans have been ‘blown out of the water’ by the new covid variant and recent travel bans – and forced it to deploy medical trainees to the wards.
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Exclusive: Leak reveals urgent care patients face 30-hour waits because of covid pressures
Patients calling NHS 111 in London could face a 30-hour wait before being admitted to a hospital bed, the capital’s ambulance service has warned.
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Updated: Hospital declared it may ‘refuse critical care’ as ‘overwhelmed’ by covid
A hospital in the South East today declared a level of critical care alert meaning that it may be forced into ‘refusal or withdrawal of critical care due to resource limitation’ because it has been ‘overwhelmed’ — but later claimed it was an ”administrative error”.