All Acute care articles – Page 202
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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.
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CommentChris Calkin: Closing the value gap
The NHS needs to help the public better understand the problems facing a modern health service
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NewsMiliband backs integrated health service
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party will seek to create an integrated healthcare system if it wins power in 2015.
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CommentHow to design seven-day care for tomorrow’s consultants
A medical student reveals the possible benefits
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.
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NewsPioneer database faces delay after watchdog intervenes
NHS England’s controversial plan to extract confidential information from patient records to build a national database faces a delay after an intervention by the information watchdog.
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NewsWales braced for hospital care review decision
A panel of experts is set to reveal its findings on divisive proposals to overhaul hospital services in west Wales.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy 'cookie cutter' change programmes won't work
There is more to replicating success than ‘copy and paste’
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NewsExclusive: London A&Es already struggling before winter pressures begin
Emergency performance in London has declined sharply since mid August, and has now fallen to a level not normally seen until December, a leaked report shows.
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NewsMonitor warning on foundations' A&E performance
The number of NHS foundation trusts failing to meet the target for seeing patients within four hours of arriving at accident and emergency departments has doubled in the last year.
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HSJ Knowledge
Are US-style 'hospitalists' the answer for 24/7 working?
Robert Wachter explains the creation of the pioneering ‘generalist’ role
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SupplementsMoving up a gear − an HSJ efficiency supplement
The latest HSJ supplement looks at how trusts are preparing to cope with winter pressures.
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SupplementsCoping with winter pressures
As trusts begin to prepare for accident and emergency departments’ busy season, a concerted move towards co-located urgent and primary care services to take the pressure off is gathering pace
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Blogs
English waiting list peaking just below 3 million
The English waiting list peaks just below 3 million: the largest reported list size since April 2008. But 18 weeks performance remains steady.
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NewsCQC appoints campaigner to advise on safety
A father whose high profile fight for answers over the death of his baby son at an NHS hospital led to the setting up of an independent inquiry has been appointed an adviser to the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsUPDATED Hunt: 'unacceptable compromises' made by aspirant FTs
Jeremy Hunt has today said he believes that “in certain cases unacceptable compromises were made on staffing” by aspirant foundation trusts.
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NewsReview of health rules on veils
A review is being launched into health service guidelines on full-face veils to ensure that patients always have “appropriate face to face contact”, it has emerged.