All Acute care articles – Page 232
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CommentSavile saga could leave health service in a fix
Do hospitals have legal liability for Jimmy Savile’s actions?
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NewsImpact of deprivation on death rates limited
Ten trusts had a higher than expected mortality rate during 2011-12, in comparison to 14 during the previous year, latest data reveals.
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NewsHunt announces crackdown on unsafe surgery
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced plans for a taskforce to improve safety of surgery after it emerged more than 80 per cent of never events during 2011-12 occurred in operating theatres.
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NewsUPDATED: Hunt advised to break up South London Healthcare
The trust special administrator this morning issued his draft report into the first organisation to face the NHS’s failure regime, recommending the trust is broken up.
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NewsNHS 111 'unlikely to lead to emergency care savings'
There is only a one in five chance of NHS 111 saving the NHS money on urgent and emergency care and a likelihood it will drive up demand for ambulance services, an evaluation has found.
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NewsHinchingbrooke receives cash advance after posting deficit
Privately-run Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust has negotiated a £4m cash advance on its service contract with its local primary care trust cluster to ease “cash flow issues” after posting a £4.1m in-year deficit.
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HSJ LocalSHA halts hospital takeover
NHS London has halted the takeover of a district general hospital by a foundation trust in a neighbouring strategic health authority.
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HSJ KnowledgeTrusts share in transformation
Swapping good practice is helping seven trusts to deliver cost and quality efficiency savings
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HSJ KnowledgeEasing winter pressures
Consultant-delivered multidisciplinary team working is providing a host of positive outcomes
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CommentA fair deal for older people
One of the clearest signs of medical and social progress in the post-NHS era is the leap in life expectancy
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CommentWhistle while you work - if you dare
Whisteblowing is publicly encouraged but privately still a dangerous business
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NewsProductivity is low at urgent care centres
Urgent care centres appear to have low productivity rates and lack clear data allowing commissioners to tell whether they are value for money, according to a report published today.
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HSJ Local
Worcestershire review decision pushed into New Year
STRUCTURE: A shortlist of options to reconfigure acute services in Worcestershire could be unveiled by the New Year after being delayed for the second time.
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HSJ LocalFoundation will be test site for redesign of unplanned care
Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust has been chosen as a test site for a six-month project aiming to deliver significant improvements in emergency and urgent care.
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NewsOFT begins scrutiny of merger plans
The Office of Fair Trading has begun a formal review examining what it predicts will be the “first of a number” of mergers between foundation trusts.
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NewsThird of acute care 'not needed'
A third of acute services in the NHS are not needed, the NHS Confederation has said.
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NewsChange urged in NHS care delivery
Most health trusts believe that “major change” is necessary in the way services are delivered to patients, a survey has found.
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NewsMajor reconfiguration delayed by neighbouring PCT
Plans for a major reconfiguration of services in London have been halted after a neighbouring primary care trust said it wanted to become more involved in the process.
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NewsWarning over NHS industrial unrest
There could be “massive” industrial unrest if health workers are not given a decent pay rise after being hit hard by the government’s wage freeze, unions have warned.