All Acute care articles – Page 15
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HSJ PartnersFrom product supplier to a trusted partner
Getinge’s new technologies and approaches have demonstrated results, from increased throughput to decreases in average length of stay and reducing non-contact clinical time for staff, all helping to reduce waiting lists and improve patient outcomes
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Still trying to tackle discharge delays
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsRevealed: Ambulance waits quadruple in handover hotspots
Ambulance waiting times for stroke and suspected heart attacks have quadrupled in four parts of England since before covid-19 – whereas others have only grown by half – underlining the severe impact of long accident and emergency handovers.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2022: Acute Sector Innovation of the Year
Partnered by WINNER: Barts Heart Centre and Glenfield Hospital Early Discharge After AMI Pathway
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NewsNHSE names new emergency care chief and deputy COO
NHS England has hired a hospital chief executive as its new national director of urgent and emergency care and deputy chief operating officer.
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News‘Money became king’ under special measures regime, trust leaders claim
An acute trust was forced to try to balance its books, while operating with too few staff and being unable to reassure itself on quality due to a ‘non-existent’ governance system, its current leaders have claimed – as they warned that when organisations are put under financial pressure ‘quality suffers’.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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HSJ LocalTrusts to merge executive teams in £1.3bn ‘group’ model
Two trusts on either side of the Humber estuary are planning a move to a group model with a shared leadership team.
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NewsTrust CEO appointed as new NHS Providers chief
The chief executive of one of the largest hospital trusts has been appointed to lead NHS Providers.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Unease around waiting list prioritisation
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingWill Barclay target ICS or trust chiefs for the chop?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News1.5m fewer people on waiting list than thought
NHS England has revealed it estimates there are 5.5 million people on elective referral to treatment waiting lists, rather than the 7 million which is often reported.
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NewsNHSE ‘forgot the people’ when it ‘rushed’ controversial appointment rules, Mackey admits
NHS England “forgot the people” when it published controversial guidelines last month which said patients faced being removed from the waiting list if they declined two appointment dates, a senior director has admitted.
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NewsNew NHSE director to oversee 'challenged' trusts
NHS England has hired a senior director from Health Education England to lead its work with particularly struggling trusts and systems.
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NewsStruggling trusts’ CEOs must ‘self certify’ to NHS England
Bosses at struggling trusts must sign new commitments to national leaders about how they are approaching the task of clearing their elective and cancer backlogs, under a new protocol drawn up by NHS England.
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HSJ LocalTrust criticised over handling of 60-hour A&E waits
Senior staff have questioned why a major hospital did not seek support from neighbours when emergency patients were left waiting more than 60 hours to be admitted to a bed.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Initiative of the Year
WINNER Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT: The Recognise and Respond Team - Optimising Care, Supporting Excellence
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: New lows for ambulance handover crisis
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsNumber of covid positive hospital patients stops rising
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals has stopped rising after 30 days.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: main hospital corridor turned into ‘makeshift ward’
The main corridor of an acute hospital has been closed to patients and staff and turned into a ‘makeshift ward’, in what sources describe as an ‘absolutely unprecedented’ situation.