All Acute care articles – Page 235
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NewsDetails of Savile investigations announced
A former barrister has been brought in to oversee the investigations into Jimmy Savile’s activities at Stoke Mandeville, Broadmoor and Leeds General Infirmary.
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HSJ KnowledgeWeak links break handover chain
Pioneering a significant improvement to clinical handover
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Peter Edwards on the latest Chief Executive Barometer: Not quite the brave new world
Peter Edwards assesses the latest Chief Executive Barometer
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CommentReaders' letters - 18 October 2012
Private patient units will be an important contributor to NHS trusts’ balance sheets
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NewsAcute FTs push their workforce reductions back to 2013-14
Acute foundation trusts are planning to increase staff numbers by more than 2,500 this financial year, latest figures released to HSJ show.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: tariff twister
Everyone knows which NHS hospitals are the most powerful, right?
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NewsAvoidable harm in NHS drops for six months
There have been six months of continuous reductions in the proportion of patients avoidably harmed under NHS care, latest data shows.
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NewsHospital activity 'will rise'
Four out of five hospital chief executives believe their trust will do more work this financial year than it did in 2011-12. The finding casts doubt on commissioners’ hopes of controlling demand.
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NewsDoctor recruitment drive off to slow start
A recruitment drive to increase the number of doctors in Wales has seen just five vacancies filled in six months, a government document shows.
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HSJ Knowledge'A merger was our only viable option'
How the hospital where the NHS was launched merged with another organisation
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NewsWarning against surgery age limits
Thousands of older patients are needlessly dying because they are being denied treatment on the grounds of their age, a report has found.
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NewsGuidance on hospital food revealed
Some hospitals are failing to provide patients with high quality and healthy meals, the health secretary has warned.
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NewsCQC seeks new recruits to hit inspection targets
The Care Quality Commission is seeking to recruit up to 200 health and social care professionals to ensure it can complete the required number of inspections by the end of the financial year, HSJ has been told.
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NewsNew acute care guidance launched
Acutely ill hospital patients should have access to consultant doctors for at least 12 hours a day, seven days a week to reduce the number of hospital deaths which occur out of hours, leading physicians have said.
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LeaderMaking integration happen
Integration will be as important as competition, Jeremy Hunt has declared
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CommentStephen Eames: successful acquisitions
These laudable aims often act as a fig leaf for cost cutting - remember the old fable about Greeks bearing gifts
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NewsHospital baby dies in bug outbreak
A premature baby has died in hospital following an outbreak of the pseudomonas bacteria, it has emerged.
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HSJ KnowledgeStroke care: where do we go from here?
Stroke research will enter an exciting new era – as long as funding remains high
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NewsDH unveils rules for objecting to Monitor tariff proposals
Commissioners will only be able to force Monitor to reconsider its approach to price setting for an NHS service if more than half of them object, under latest Department of Health proposals.