All Acute care articles – Page 180
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NewsHunt: Risk sharing will protect hospitals from better care fund failure
Better care fund plans must share risk between hospitals and commissioners to prevent the acute sector losing out if they fail to deliver, Jeremy Hunt has revealed
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CommentCentralisation is crucial to achieve better care locally
The politics must be taken out of the NHS
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Comment18 weeks targets force pressured trusts into perverse patient scheduling
Patients out of order
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SupplementsHSJ Top Chief Executives: Capturing the zest of the best
How their characteristics mark out these individuals
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NewsConfederation chief calls for 10-year NHS funding settlement
NHS Confederation chief executive Rob Webster has outlined a package of commitments which he wants politicians of all parties to sign up to before the 2015 general election.
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NewsStuart Rose tells NHS leaders: 'Always remember patients come first'
Sir Stuart Rose has told NHS Confederation conference delegates his report on leadership in the NHS will offer “practical and positive” recommendations.
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NewsSix NHS leaders join Confederation board
Six NHS leaders have been appointed as trustees on the NHS Confederation board, it has announced today.
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NewsSecond trust abandons private franchise option
A second district general hospital trust has ruled out being run by a private company under a franchise agreement.
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HSJ KnowledgeA hospital's 'improvement engine' will power it towards the savings required
A thought provoking series on the challenges facing hospital leaders
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HSJ Knowledge
Four hours in A&E: what the target tells us about trusts
Does performance reflect the leadership?
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NewsExclusive: 'Exhausted' inspectors raise concerns about unsustainable CQC regime
Inspectors feel like they are part of a “lynch mob not a serious regulator”, and “used, deflated and exhausted”
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HSJ KnowledgeSenior staff cover means earlier discharges
Equal attention should be paid to evening cover as at weekends
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NewsSmaller trusts outperforming larger counterparts
Smaller trusts are outperforming their larger counterparts on several measures, research by healthcare data company CHKS reveals.
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NewsSimon Stevens' first interview: the transcript
In in HSJ’s in-depth interview, the NHS England chief executive talks about small hospitals, service reform, NHS funding, competition and much more
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NewsAnalysis: What did Stevens really say about small and community hospitals?
Comments by the new NHS England chief executive have been taken as meaning he might preserve small and community hospitals.
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NHS England backs cancer and cardiac reorganisation
NHS England is backing clinician-led proposals which would see a reorganisation of specialist cancer and cardiac services across London and Essex.
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NewsCancer waiting time target breached for first time
Providers have breached the waiting time target for patients with suspected cancer starting treatment within 62 days following urgent GP referral for the first time since the target was introduced in 2009.
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CommentVideo: The story of an elderly patient who never made it home
Why out of hospital services need to change
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Stevens steps back from '15 specialist centres' plan
The new NHS England chief executive has distanced himself from the organisation’s previously stated ambition to concentrate specialised services in “15-30 centres of excellence”.
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NewsSimon Stevens’ first interview: parts of the NHS must be ‘completely reinvented’
Stevens uses first major interview to warn that “deep seated structural problems” will require parts of the NHS to “completely reinvent what we mean by a hospital”.