All Acute care articles – Page 149
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Ambulances to be diverted from Medway following CQC inspection
PERFORMANCE: Ambulances will be temporarily diverted from the accident and emergency department at Medway Foundation Trust two mornings this week under a plan from NHS England.
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HSJ LocalAcute referrals to Worcestershire trust suspended
PERFORMANCE: Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group has asked GPs to stop referring patients to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust in an effort to reduce its ‘unmanageable’ outpatient waiting time backlog.
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NewsExclusive: Public thinks seven day services needed for convenience not safety, survey shows
The public’s main interest in NHS seven day working is convenience rather than safety, a new poll indicates.
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NewsMonitor: Out of hospital care ‘no panacea’ for demand pressure
Monitor has warned providers that schemes to move care out of hospital are not guaranteed to reduce costs or demand pressure.
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegration: Happening quietly in a place near you
Local approach offers tangible benefits
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NewsThe NHS has 'too many trusts', says Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has said there are ‘too many trusts’ in the NHS and the health service needs to ‘up the pace’ of work on hospital chains and other provider reforms.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt orders investigation of 'regulatory gap' baby death case
The health secretary has promised an independent investigation of the death of a baby whose ‘incredibly distressing’ case highlighted a regulatory ‘gap’ in the NHS’s ability to probe historic complaints.
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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: The right services at the right time
Data, workforce planning and the voluntary sector
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LeaderThere's little chance left for the agency cap to cut hospital deficits
Winter pressures will be biting before they are ready
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NewsMonitor: High bed occupancy to blame for worst A&E performance in a decade
The worst accident and emergency performance against the four hour target in more than 10 years was due to hospitals struggling with very high bed occupancy rates, Monitor has concluded.
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NewsExclusive: DH bailouts rocket to £1.2bn as hospital finances crash
The Department of Health paid out £1.2bn in bailouts in 2014-15, to help more than 50 troubled NHS providers pay wages and creditors, replace aging equipment and cut deficits, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsUpdated: NHS agency controls unveiled, but price cap pushed back
Price caps on the hourly rate the NHS can pay agency nurses may not take effect until December, after regulators received more than 100 responses to a consultation on the controversial plans.
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NewsNo more savings can be made, trusts tell regulators
Trusts have told regulators they will not be able to improve their financial positions without affecting frontline services, senior acute trust leaders have told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: Royal college exposes widespread rota gaps on paediatric wards
More than one in 10 hospital rotas for paediatricians in the UK have vacancies, with some hospitals seeing vacancies of almost a quarter in specialist units.
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NewsExclusive: Leading FTs lay groundwork for hospital chains
Three of England’s most well respected foundation trusts are working on a partnership through which they can lay the groundwork to build and run hospital chains, HSJ has learned.
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NewsOutside scrutiny has become ‘unforgiving’, warns longest serving NHS chief
The NHS’s longest serving chief executive, who has just marked 50 years in the service, says regulation and unreasonable expectations are making senior leaders’ roles more difficult than at any other point in his career.
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NewsNHS staff to face new sanctions under ‘Sunshine rule’
NHS staff who fail to disclose payments and hospitality received from drug suppliers and medical device makers will be sanctioned under new regulation, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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NewsExclusive: Vanguards urged to quickly become ‘battering ram of change’
The urgent and emergency care vanguards are the ‘battering ram of change’ and should quickly test new ideas to be replicated nationally, the director of NHS England’s new care models programme has said.
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NewsExclusive: CQC to review care for newborns following baby’s death
A national review of the quality of care for seriously ill children is being launched by the Care Quality Commission following the death of a baby more than a decade ago.
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NewsNational officials tell hospitals seven day service priorities
Hospitals have been told by national officials to focus on improving access to medical consultants and diagnostic services as part of efforts to improve care for NHS patients at weekends.