All Winter pressures articles – Page 20
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News
Data video: A&E performance 2013-14 analysed
HSJ reporter Sophie Barnes talks about English A&E departments’ performance, with emergency admissions at major A&E units at their highest level in a decade
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News
Review calls for Tamiflu rethink
Ministers should review the use of a widely used anti-flu medication, scientists have said after new research questioned the efficacy of the drug.
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News
Winter pressures monies fund extra admissions
Performance against the four hour accident and emergency target did not improve in 2013-14, despite a huge political focus on the issue, as emergency admissions reached record levels, HSJ analysis has found.
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HSJ Knowledge
The kids aren't alright: more children are going to A&E than ever before
There are more under-16s in A&E than over-65s
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News
Bennett defends increased monitoring
David Bennett has admitted Monitor is intervening more regularly at foundation trusts than in the past, due to a “a declined appetite for risk”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Winter pressures and the NHS: the story so far
How the NHS is coping with the winter surge in demand
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Leader
It is time to bring social care spending in from the cold
Remove the artificial barriers between health and social care
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Comment
Identifying the members of the A&E frequent flyers club
Some patients attend emergency units more than 10 times a year
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Comment
Mark Newbold: Whole system transformation must be our priority
Solve the issues behind emergency pressures
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Comment
Better housing will relieve winter pressures
Housing improvements are vital for reducing emergency hospital visits
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News
Warning over A&E ambulance queues
The NHS has a “significant problem” with ambulances queuing at accident and emergency departments waiting to drop off patients, a senior official has said.
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News
This winter will be worse than last, warn hospital chiefs
Hospital leaders predict this winter will be worse than the last and warn their health economies are not coping well already.
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News
A&Es to get extra beds this winter
The government’s additional £250m funding for accident and emergency this winter will be spent on more than 2,000 extra beds and extra staff, Jeremy Hunt has said.
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News
EXCLUSIVE: A&Es to receive extra £150m to ease winter pressures
A second wave of winter pressure funding is to be made available for all accident and emergency departments, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Knowledge
How Bath developed new thinking on coping with winter pressures
A new approach to seasonal care
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HSJ Knowledge
Winter pressure fund is cold comfort for some
Is it fair that the most challenged trusts are getting a bailout to ease winter pressures?
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News
PM focused on A&E winter measures
Downing Street has confirmed that David Cameron is getting personally involved in overseeing the NHS’s response to expected pressures on casualty departments in England this winter.