All Acute care articles – Page 207
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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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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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CommentAndrew Taylor: Bailout recipients beware state aid rules
Trusts need to grasp the EU’s payment rules
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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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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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CommentCommentary: trust chiefs are like football managers
Monitor and the TDA should hold their nerve over leadership changes
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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’