All Acute care articles – Page 262
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NewsFour hour target sole national A&E measure for 2012-13
The accident and emergency clinical indicators will continue to be monitored at local rather than national level during 2012-13, leaving the old four hour standard as the sole national measure of A&E performance.
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CommentFrom Tokyo to Torbay, integrating services will prove to be the future
Healthcare services in Torbay, England and in Tokyo, Japan both provide valuable insight into how the health service in the UK might look in the future. In getting ready, there are some stark lessons to learn, writes Mark Britnell.
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NewsExclusive: Dr Foster names 10 trusts overlooking fast recovery processes
Ten hospital trusts which do not follow evidence-based processes for fast recovery from surgery have been named by Dr Foster Intelligence.
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NewsDebt deferral measures to support would-be foundation trusts
The Department of Health has indicated that the vast majority of trusts needing financial support to achieve foundation trust status will receive it through the deferral of their loan repayments.
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NewsMaternity services 'overwhelmed' by rising births
Maternity services in England and Wales have been “overwhelmed” by a rising number of births, including more complex cases, according to a new report.
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NewsExclusive: DH and Monitor in 'power battle' over running of regulator
A “power battle” is underway between the Department of Health and Monitor over the extent to which the regulator needs to be split in two to avoid conflicts of interest, HSJ has been told.
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NewsMost commissioners see readmissions rate rise despite harsh penalties
Most commissioners have seen an increase in emergency readmission rates despite the imposition of new penalties that are set to cost providers more than £400m this year, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsLooped Lansley welcome message defended
Andrew Lansley has defended a video message which is being projected to patients in hospital wards on a continuous loop.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a COPD care bundle is reducing readmissions
Implementing a COPD care bundle can reduce readmissions and aid patient self-management. But it is only part of the solution, say Trish Winn, Maria Buxton and Mary Noone at the North West London Hospitals Trust.
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Revealed: the six trusts that need DH support with their PFI
Six hospital trusts have been identified as needing Department of Health cash support with their private finance initiative payments in order to make foundation trust status, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPayment by results moves to 'bundled' contracts
The Department of Health is set to signal that NHS commissioners can move away from payment by results in 2012-13 in an attempt to control costs.
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NewsDH to act on thousands of long-wait patients
The government has announced it will act over the thousands of patients who are waiting for longer than a year before treatment, and concerns they may be concealing others on “hidden lists”.
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Comment'It's time for a one year maximum wait'
Problems with waiting times are far from insurmountable - they just require the will to change, argue Rob Findlay and Anthony McKeever.
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NewsTroubled foundation failed 'basic management' as debts grew
One of England’s most financially challenged foundation trusts had no “basic performance management systems” in place as it ran up a £8.3m deficit in six months, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield Hospitals chief elected chair of NHS Employers policy board
STRUCTURE: NHS Employers has announced Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Sir Andrew Cash as the new chair of its policy board.
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NewsRedesigned A&E departments to reduce violence
Accident and emergency departments could be redesigned to significantly reduce violence and aggression towards staff for as little as £60,000, a Department of Health commissioned study suggests.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe critical factors for an efficient acute medical care unit
Three elements decide the efficiency of an acute medical care unit, and its success or failure. Paul Glynne and colleagues advise on what they are, and the difference the unit is making at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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NewsA&E waits at winter levels
The proportion of patients waiting over four hours to be admitted from accident and emergency was already approaching winter levels by the second quarter of this year, Department of Health figures reveal.
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NewsOsborne outlines PFI reassessment plans
Chancellor George Osborne today announced a “fundamental reassessment” of the government’s controversial private finance initiative, with the aim of cutting costs and improving transparency.
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NewsClusters ordered to begin stocktake of 75,000 service contracts
Primary care trust clusters will have to complete a detailed stocktake of their 75,000 service contracts by the end of March 2012, in preparation for transferring them to successor commissioning bodies the following year.