All Acute care articles – Page 202
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NewsPoliticians challenged to back service change ahead of election
Politicians and political parties will be put on the spot in the run-up to the 2015 general election to support major changes in the health service, under a plan developed by the NHS Confederation.
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NewsJudge blocks review of reconfiguration scheme
Ealing Council has been refused permission to take a hospital reconfiguration plan to judicial review.
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NewsChair sits on 'office of the chief executive' body at giant teaching hospital
One of England’s largest hospital trusts will be run by an “office of the chief executive”, consisting of the medical director, finance director and the chair.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health sector hit by beds shortage
Mental health patients requiring urgent hospital admission face long journeys − in some cases hundreds of miles − amid growing evidence of a shortage of beds, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRise in 'avoidable' NHS admissions
The number of emergency hospital admissions for conditions that could be avoided has risen 48 per cent in 12 years, according to a new report.
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CommentPayment by results reform needs vision and realism
The tariff must fit into the new financial reality
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NewsNorman Lamb: Mid Staffs would never have happened at a mutual
Health minister Norman Lamb has suggested acute trusts could improve staff engagement by becoming social enterprises and argued that the culture problems seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust would never happen in a mutually-owned company.
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HSJ Local
Ipswich Hospital Trust pays ‘more than £5m’ compensation to disabled boy
Ipswich Hospital Trust has paid “more than £5m” in compensation to a seven-year-old boy who was left severely disabled after the hospital was judged to have mismanaged his birth.
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NewsEmergency care could move off tariff
Monitor and NHS England are considering moving away from the tariff payment system for emergency and urgent care, it emerged last week.
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CommentNational cancer survey kick-starts care transformation
Providing better care for cancer patients in London
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Blogs
I don’t need to go to hospital, I just need to go home to bed
Sometimes the patient knows best.
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NewsMonitor seeks solution to competition impasse
Monitor is in with talks with the Office of Fair Trading to try to prevent trusts which want to merge from facing drawn out inquiries under competition law, HSJ has been told.
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NewsChoices to change friends and family presentation
NHS England has agreed to change the way the results of the friends and family test are presented online by NHS Choices following complaints from trusts, HSJ has learned.
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NewsA&Es facing 'intolerable pressures'
Urgent action must be taken to ensure that emergency departments remain safe and sustainable, doctors have warned.
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NewsGovernment called on to strengthen controversial failure regime
The government has been asked to strengthen the NHS failure regime so regulators can recommend changes to services and structures across several providers.
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NewsLegal threat over Burnham 'cover-up' claims
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been threatened with potential legal action by Labour in a dramatic escalation of a row over claims of a “cover-up” of NHS care shortcomings.
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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.