All Acute care articles – Page 10
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HSJ Local
Staff get ‘aggressive verbal abuse’ over strike cancellations
A hospital trust has said its staff have been verbally abused when contacting some patients to postpone their appointments because of next week’s nursing strike.
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Comment
The charity sector is key to overcoming the NHS's organisational barriers
Charities overcome organisational barriers to embed their services, develop imaginative and proactive solutions to local issues, and are extremely effective at reaching the community’s most vulnerable members, writes Lisa Weaks
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HSJ Interactive
From competition to collaboration on temporary staffing: How can ICSs best create shared staff banks?
More and more systems are moving away from organisation-specific staff banks to ones which are shared between several trusts. At a recent HSJ webinar, panellists discussed the approach – and how to make it work
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News
Child health checks failed to recover after covid, figures show
Inadequate health visiting provision has led to gaps in care for children and heaped pressure on acute services, senior clinicians have told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Struggling trust hit with CQC warning notice
A scandal-hit trust has been issued a warning notice over staffing levels in medical care.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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News
Watch: How Birmingham and Manchester developed the longest elective waits
HSJ has tracked acute trusts’ average waiting times since the start of the pandemic, revealing how the providers with the longest and shortest waits has changed.
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News
Revealed: Best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food
The best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food have been revealed in a national assessment by patients and staff.
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News
Trust CEOs’ strike warning: ‘If anyone gets sick, we’re stuffed’
The leaders of acute trusts across England have told HSJ the second junior doctor’s strike ‘feels very different’ from the first stoppage, and services are much more vulnerable because of ‘thinner’ consultant coverage.
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Comment
How ICSs can arrest the decline in the nation's health
Axel Heitmueller, Martin Carkett, Paul Blakeley explain integrated care systems’ part in arresting the decline in the nation’s health.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: ‘Gently persuading’ integration
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by primary and community care correspondent Mimi Launder.
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News
Urgent community services must become ‘business as usual’, says NHS England
Urgent community response services are growing across England – despite significant variation in referrals – but must be maintained all year rather than acting as ‘just a short-term fix for winter’, NHS England’s community director has said.
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News
Exclusive: NHS to miss April deadline to end 78-week waits by around 11k patients
National NHS forecasts are predicting there will be around 11,000 patients on the elective waiting list who have been waiting longer than 78 weeks at the start of April, the target for clearing this cohort, HSJ understands.
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Comment
Shadow boards can help address the challenge of leadership diversity
Elliot Howard-Jones, shares his views about why a Shadow Board was created, bringing together staff from a range of different ethnic backgrounds
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HSJ Local
Stretched A&E staff ‘rarely saw exec team’, review finds
Trust executives and senior managers have been criticised by a former national director for their lack of support for an under-pressure A&E.
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News
New number one trust CEO revealed
The overarching theme of HSJ’s 2023 ranking of the NHS’s leading provider trust chief executives is one of change. Twenty-four of the names in the top 50 are new when compared to the 2022 list, although some have appeared in the rankings during previous years. In association with ...
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News
Former NHSE chief named chair of two more trusts
A former NHS chief executive is taking the helm at two more acute trusts in the West Midlands, it has been announced.
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News
Patients ‘unaware of strike’ as some hospitals report ‘busiest day’
Acute trusts are reporting high demand at emergency departments despite junior doctor strikes, which in some cases threaten to lead to overflowing wards and long ambulance handover delays.
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News
‘Substantial’ leadership and behavioural issues at major trust, review finds
A review into allegations of bullying and poor culture at University Hospitals Birmingham has revealed “substantial” concerns about culture, behaviour, leadership and governance, a council report reveals.
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News
NHSE admits elective impact as trust chiefs warn of dangers of doctors’ strike
Ministers and NHS England have not sufficiently warned the public of the risk to patient harm posed by next week’s junior doctors strike, some of the NHS’s most senior trust chief executives have warned.