All Acute care articles – Page 245
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to handle NHS contract arrangements with confidence
Craig Barratt and colleagues look at contract management issues facing commissioners and providers, and offer practical tips on negotiation that can help keep potentially tense relationships amicable.
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NewsMinimum alcohol pricing 'will save lives'
Implementing a minimum alcohol unit price would save more than 1,000 lives each year, a report has claimed.
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NewsA&E departments see fall in violence related cases
An estimated 307,998 people were admitted to accident and emergency units for violence-related injuries last year, 10,879 fewer than in 2010, data supplied by the units showed.
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NewsMonitor tightens efficiency targets for acute trust
Monitor has issued a bleak assessment of the efficiency savings acute trusts must prepare to make over the next three years.
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HSJ Local
Kettering warning on 62-day target
Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has warned it is at risk of not delivering on its target for 62 day wait for treatment for urgent GP referrals.
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NewsPrime minister names members of nursing quality forum
The prime minister David Cameron has announced the next phase of the Nursing and Care Quality Forum, which he set up to investigate how to improve nursing and care standards. He has named its 22 members.
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NewsPROMs performance improves slightly
Latest data on patient reported outcome measures has shown some improvement in the proportion of patients who felt their condition had improved following surgery.
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HSJ Local
Trust apology over cancelled operations
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has issued an apology to patients after cancelling 532 operations on the day they were supposed to take place since the start of the year.
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NewsHospitals to review discharge policies
David Cameron will today call for patients to be treated with dignity and respect as hospitals are told to end the practice of discharging vulnerable people from wards during the night.
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NewsExclusive: OFT to rule on foundation trust merger
The first ever merger between two foundation trusts is to be scrutinised for its impact on competition by the Office of Fair Trading, HSJ has learned.
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NewsChild safety an 'afterthought' of NHS reform, say doctors
The safety of children is an “afterthought” of NHS reforms, paediatricians have warned. Many say they are not adequately trained and resources are “spread too thinly.”
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NewsKeogh pledges action on overnight discharging
The medical director of the NHS has promised action after it was reported that hundreds of thousands of patients are being sent home from hospital in the middle of the night to relieve pressure on beds.
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HSJ KnowledgeAn open source vision
A campaign is attempting to bring VistA, an open source IT system, to the NHS. Why should you consider it?
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HSJ KnowledgeHow an NHS-pharma partnership is improving prevention
By partnering with a pharmaceutical firm an East Midlands trust became the first in the region to achieve a major target for VTE risk assessment. Scott Savage explains.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to put great ideas into serious practice
Amazing ideas ran freely through one trust but it did not know how to make them a reality until it embedded innovation as a core value, explains Tony Bell.
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HSJ KnowledgeDiagnosis: earlier
Research has found that for many patients diagnosis is too slow, so an alliance of patients, professionals and charities is campaigning for earlier action
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HSJ KnowledgeIn detail: how Kettering tackled VTE
How did Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust meet the national VTE assessment target? Scott Savage explains.
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NewsDoctors: disabled patients get poorer care in hospital
A poll of hundreds of hospital doctors and GPs has found most believe patients with a learning disability get poorer care than the rest of the population.
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NewsPrivate hospital will offer ‘the only’ tertiary care beds in Kent
A private hospital in Kent will claim to offer NHS and private patients “the only” cardiothoracic and neurosurgery tertiary care beds in the county, helping to reduce referrals to London trusts.