All UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 6
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Punishing staff for gaming the vaccine system
Reasonable or ‘unnecessarily hostile”? This week’s HSJ Health Check debates whether it’s right for a trust to threaten its staff with disciplinary or regulatory action if they seek to have their second covid jab early.
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News
Staff seeking second vaccination early threatened with ‘regulatory action’
Staff at one of England’s largest hospital trusts have been threatened with disciplinary and regulatory action if they attempt to get their second covid-19 vaccine dose early, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Scandal-hit trust partnered with ‘outstanding’ care provider
The trust at the centre of one of the biggest maternity scandals in recent years has been partnered with another trust in the Midlands to drive improvements.
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News
Covid pressures linked to increased fall rates and patient deaths
Two patients have died and at least seven more have come to harm in recent falls linked to covid-19 pressures at a small acute trust.
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News
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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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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News
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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News
Exclusive: First two trusts lined up to deliver 24/7 covid jabs
Two hospital trusts in the Midlands are being lined up to pilot a 24-hour covid vaccine service, HSJ has learned.
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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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HSJ Local
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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News
Exclusive: Region could run out of critical care beds in two weeks
Hospitals in the Midlands could exceed their maximum number of critical care beds in just two weeks, data leaked to HSJ indicates.
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News
Hour-plus ambulance to A&E transfers double in a week
The number of ambulance handovers taking longer than an hour have almost doubled in just one week, the latest figures have revealed.
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News
Hospital acquired covid infections hit record high
The number of covid-19 infections likely to have been acquired in hospital are rising again for the first time in three weeks and their proportion of all cases has reached record levels for the second wave, HSJ can reveal.
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News
10 new hospital vaccine sites revealed
Ten more hospitals are to start giving the Pfizer covid vaccine, including two in coronavirus ‘hot spots’.
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News
Covid deaths surge at ‘special measures’ trust which ‘escaped’ first wave
Covid deaths at a small Midlands hospital trust have quadrupled in less than two weeks, putting it higher than nearly all its peers.
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Tablet only
HSJ’s 50 most read articles of 2020
HSJ takes a look back at the 50 most read stories of 2020.
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News
Patients eight times more likely to die following major surgery at outlier hospitals
Death rates for a major emergency abdominal surgery are almost eight times higher at some outlier hospitals compared with top performers, a national report has found.
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News
Two Midlands trusts curb electives as covid patients rise
Two major Midlands trusts have begun cancelling planned care, including cancer surgeries, with one seeing its number of covid patients reach levels seen during April.
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News
Exclusive: CQC launches criminal investigation into medication incidents at major acute trust
A major acute trust has confirmed the health service inspectorate has begun a criminal investigation into three incidents at its hospitals.
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HSJ Local
Trust becomes the first to record 1,000 covid-19 deaths
University Hospitals Birmingham FT has become the first trust to record more than 1,000 deaths from covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, new data has revealed.