All Yorkshire and the Humber articles – Page 8
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NewsExclusive: Sharp drop in patient goodwill towards NHS since autumn
Patient positivity about NHS hospital services suffered a sharp drop during the autumn, and satisfaction with access is now well below pre-pandemic levels, according to analysis exclusively shared with HSJ.
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NewsTen ICUs where ‘super surge’ occupancy remains stubbornly high
Critical care occupancy remains stubbornly high at 10 trusts which still have around double the number of patients they had capacity for last winter, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsThe 19 health systems with less than 5pc of beds available for non-covid patients
Nearly half of England’s health systems have scant space in general hospitals for non-covid patients as they juggle beds between covid and non-covid services while running at high occupancy rates, an HSJ analysis of NHS data shows.
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NewsCCG blasts NHS England’s ‘significant lack of insight’ in legislation plan
A clinical commissioning group has told NHS England its proposal to abolish CCGs shows a “significant lack of insight” and could “distract from, rather than support, the other changes and progress which are needed”.
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NewsExclusive: NHS has half the ‘empty’ beds available to non-covid patients than previously reported
Nearly half the general hospital beds previously reported as “unoccupied” by the NHS are not in fact available for non-covid patients, due to infection control measures, an HSJ analysis of new NHS data reveals.
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NewsExclusive: Critically ill covid patients moved between hospitals in record numbers
The number of critically ill covid-19 patients being transferred between hospitals under pressure from the third wave of the pandemic is on course to hit a record high in January, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsRegion’s critical care occupancy up by a fifth in one week
The number of patients in critical care in the Midlands has grown by a fifth in a week, and is now 70 per cent more than in winter last year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsRevealed: Nightingale hospitals to cost half a billion pounds in total
England’s Nightingale hospitals have been forecast to cost more than half a billion, according to the latest government projections.
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NewsExclusive: Half of London’s hospital patients have covid-19
There are now more patients who have confirmed covid-19 in London’s acute hospitals as those who do not, after the need to treat people with the virus displaced thousands of other patients.
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NewsHard-hit region has more than twice as many critical care patients as last winter
One NHS region now has double the number of critical care patients it did last winter — and all areas are more full than last year — HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers keeping UK vaccine supply secret to avoid ‘diversion’ to other nations
The UK must not shout ‘from the rooftops’ about the covid vaccine supplies it has secured as this could potentially lead to manufacturers diverting supplies away from the country, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens and deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van Tam told NHS leaders last night.
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NewsLondon critical care patients could be sent to Yorkshire as capital’s ICUs top 100pc occupancy
Requests have been made to transfer patients in need of intensive care from London to hospitals in Yorkshire, HSJ has learned, as leaked figures reveal that critical care is running at 100 per cent-plus capacity across the south east and east of England.
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NewsCovid infections caught in hospital rise by a third in one week
The number of people likely to have caught covid-19 in NHS hospitals in England has risen by more than a third in the last week.
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NewsCovid hospital admissions begin to rise again in the North as South explodes
Covid hospital admissions are now rising again in both the north west and north east and Yorkshire regions.
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NewsRevealed: 13 trusts facing ‘significant safety issues’
Thirteen trusts are facing billions of pounds of maintenance — in some cases, making it more cost-effective to rebuild the hospital — over ‘significant safety issues’ stemming from outdated construction methods.
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NewsHospitals pass peak of second wave
The second wave has peaked in England’s hospitals, with the number of beds occupied by covid patients falling for five consecutive days across the country.
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NewsTrust CEO asks for ‘scientific evidence’ on covid vaccine safety to reassure staff
NHS trust chief executives have told HSJ they need more clarity the Pfizer-BioNTech covid vaccine is safe to reassure their worried staff.
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HSJ Partners‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about’
James Dunmore on the transformative power of community
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NewsCovid admissions falling in all regions except London and the South East
Covid admissions are continuing to rise in London and the South East as they fall away in the rest of the country, NHS England’s hospital data shows.
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NewsCovid deaths rise in the Humber while admissions surge in Lincolnshire
Covid deaths in hospitals are rising quickly in the Humber, Coast and Vale health system and the neighbouring Lincolnshire system, NHS data shows.