All Acute care articles – Page 199
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SupplementsBeating down the barriers - an HSJ roundtable
HSJ’s latest roundtable agreed that the potential savings in commissioning are huge - but age old problems stand in the way of realising them
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NewsProviders hit with raised efficiency requirement
Providers will lose hundreds of millions of pounds in income under Monitor and NHS England plans to raise the efficiency assumptions that govern how much they are paid under tariff.
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NewsChanges to emergency admissions tariff planned
The marginal tariff for hospital emergency care will be retained in 2014-15, but the policy will be modified.
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HSJ Local
Portsmouth's withdrawal scuppers local pathology plan
STRUCTURE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has frustrated its neighbours by pulling out of a proposed local pathology consortium weeks before it was due to go live, citing concerns over governance arrangements and the savings potential of the project.
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NewsScotland to review NHS IT after Glasgow system failure
A review has been ordered of Scottish NHS IT systems after a failure forced a major health board to cancel hundreds of appointments.
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NewsNearly half of acute hospital trusts predict deficit
The NHS hospital trust sector is predicting a deficit at the end of this financial year, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentThe friends and family test: a different view
How to recognise and fulfil the test’s potential
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CommentAndrew Taylor: Bailout recipients beware state aid rules
Trusts need to grasp the EU’s payment rules
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NewsExclusive: Delayed hospital discharge to blame for A&E pressure
Poor accident and emergency performance this year has not been caused by GP out of hours provision, increased attendances or a lack of doctors, exclusive analysis shared with HSJ shows.
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HSJ KnowledgeSolving the radiology workforce challenge
How to achieve increased output with fewer staff and resources
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NewsImperial chief executive standing down
The chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare Trust is stepping down.
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NewsTrusts to get further £200m for absorbing South London Healthcare Trust services
The Department of Health and NHS England have agreed to nearly double the amount paid to trusts taking on parts of the soon-to-be-dissolved South London Healthcare Trust.
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CommentLord Saatchi: The law is killing patients
Established practices fail both doctors and cancer patients
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CommentThe Care Bill is the wrong medicine for the NHS
Legislation is a bizarre and inadequate attempt to fix a spurious problem
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CommentPatient feedback is essential to the NHS's future
The friends and family test is helping to drive local improvements
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CommentCommentary: trust chiefs are like football managers
Monitor and the TDA should hold their nerve over leadership changes
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NewsNeighbouring trusts go through 14 chief executives in five years
Two neighbouring trusts that had been considering a merger have seen five substantive and nine interim or acting chief executives over the past five years, an HSJ/Capsticks survey reveals.
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NewsMore than a third of hospital chief executives in post less than a year
More than a third of England’s hospital chief executives have been in post for less than a year, HSJ/Capsticks research reveals.
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NewsPatients 'self-funding treatment'
Hospital patients are being allowed to pay for treatments that are no longer available for free, the shadow health secretary has claimed.