All Acute care articles – Page 108
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HSJ Local'Severe harm' to patients at teaching trust after records failure
A patient suffered a stroke that might have been prevented and another received late treatment for cancer after record keeping failures at a teaching hospital.
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NewsNew digital excellence regions could be based on STPs
NHS England planning to pick four or five “placed based” digital exemplars based on STP or ACS areas AHSNs separately asked to assess “place based” digital maturity Some digital exemplar trusts have picked “fast follower” partners and are awaiting NHS England approval NHS England is looking to fund ...
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NewsRegulator action against hospitals more than doubles in a year
CQC’s year-end performance report reveals 133 per cent jump in enforcement action CQC says it is seeing improvement when inspectors return to providers Regulator finished 2016-17 with a £14m underspend against budget The number of enforcement actions taken against hospital providers in England by the Care Quality Commission ...
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NewsRouse: Manchester NHS recently tested terror attack response
Manchester’s emergency services practised dealing with a scenario “not too dissimilar” to last night’s terror attack about one month ago, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership’s chief officer Jon Rouse has said.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief quits to run major health research centre
An acute hospital trust chief executive is leaving her post to become chief operating officer of a major health research institute.
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CommentTurning negatives into positives: the importance of learning from mistakes
The Medical Defence Union’s Michael Devlin examines whether a new patient safety body will lead to better investigations into medical mistakes.
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HSJ LocalJeremy Hunt warned over deaths risk after scan results missed
Patient not told of aneurysm for four years before his death Trust had no protocol in place to flag up £potentially life threatening” radiological results Health secretary asked to consider a trust review of procedures A coroner has called on the health secretary to examine a trust’s systems ...
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HSJ LocalLeading 'ACS' to ask competition regulator to overturn restrictions
Business case being drawn up to challenge rules imposed after merger was blocked The work is overseen by new joint programme board County submits bid to NHS England for share of £325m fund for capital projects Two foundation trusts whose merger was blocked by competition regulators in a ...
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NewsBarts Health flagged reliance on XP ahead of cyber attack
Barts Health still disrupted after cyber attack Trust reported concerns about high number of Windows XP computers days before the attack Other trusts hit hard by cyber-attack reveal vulnerabilities Barts Health Trust has revealed it was trying to upgrade “many” computers still running the outdated Windows XP ...
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NewsTories will target NHS weekend discharge rates
Discharge rates should be ‘at a similar’ level at weekends as on weekdays, says Tory manifesto Policy continues direction of travel set out by seven day services agenda Senior expert warns policy would require substantial additional resource New targets for NHS trusts to discharge emergency admissions “at a ...
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NewsExclusive: Leading chief executive faces disciplinary hearing next week
Sir Leonard Fenwick faces disciplinary hearing on 23 May Investigation report has been passed to trust chair Process ’could take 18 months to resolve’, says source The NHS’s longest standing chief executive Sir Leonard Fenwick faces a disciplinary hearing next week, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCompetition regulator urgently demands data from trusts
Trusts have until end of the week to submit data to PHIN on private work NHS providers have concerns about information governance issues Trusts could potnentially be prosecuted under the Enterprise Act The Competition and Markets Authority has warned NHS trusts that they could be prosecuted if they ...
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HSJ LocalProvider alliance plans expansion as budget triples
Plans to increase shared budget from £3.7m to £12.3m have been agreed Alliance is in talks with Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust Alliance wants to set up a centre of excellence for stroke at a cost of £1.8m A pioneering partnership which aims ...
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NewsTwo more trusts confirm sixth day of cancellations after cyber attack
A further two trusts confirmed they will be cancelling appointments this morning, five days after they were infected in the unprecendented global cyber attack
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CommentThe NHS's world first in attempting to reduce acute kidney injury
What commissioners need to know about the Think Kidneys programme and its lessons on the prevalence and impact of acute kidney injury
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NewsCyber attack disruption will drag into sixth day
At least five trusts cancelled some appointments on Tuesday One said it was cancelling activity on Wednesday Many are still in the process of recovering IT systems Many of the trusts most severely disrupted by Friday’s cyber attack are expecting to resume most patient services on Wednesday, but ...
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NewsAnalysis: Fall in number of trusts top-rated by NHS Improvement
Number of trusts receiving top NHS Improvement rated dropped by 14 per cent since October 2016 17 trusts have seen their rating drop, 18 have seen it improve The trusts that have either entered or exited the worst rating of four closely align with the CQC’s special measures regime ...
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NewsOperations and services disrupted as cyber attack fallout persists
Patients warned of further disruption and cancellations as group of large providers grapple with cyber attack fallout Jeremy Hunt says it is “encouraging” that there had not yet been a “second spike” of attacks Government’s COBRA committee meeting on Monday evening to discuss further action Several major ...
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NewsIndependent provider to NHS rated 'outstanding' by CQC
The Benenden Hospital Trust rated outstanding by the CQC About a fifth of its activity is for the NHS CQC praised its staff satisfaction levels, recovery pathways and infection control but raised concerns over admission and theatre schedules The Care Quality Commission has rated Benenden Hospital, ...
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Comment18 week waits, March 2017: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for March 2017