All Acute care articles – Page 275
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NewsFour hour A&E performance standard retained
Trusts will keep being performance managed against the four hour accident and emergency standard in a bid to maintain “grip” on waiting times. The move comes after the government signalled a relaxing of the timescale for the transition to a new monitoring system.
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NewsHealth secretary gains powers over NHS Commissioning Board in amended bill
The health secretary is to be given the power to intervene in “particular cases” of “significant failure” by the NHS Commissioning Board, under the newly amended Health Bill.
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NewsAvoid 'slash and burn' approach to spending cuts - BMA
NHS chiefs should avoid undertaking “slash and burn” cuts in their bid to save money, the British Medical Association has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeBattling the elements: how one trust's fight for foundation status holds valuable lessons
Despite winter snow and a flu outbreak, a high profile trust reorganisation was pushed through in order to start addressing debt problems, low performance and poor service design. Their commitment may result in the rescuing of the trust’s goal of foundation status, as Daloni Carlisle reports.
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NewsDoctors vote against referral centres
Doctors’ representatives have voted to oppose “the use of referral centres and other crude methods to reduce referrals” at their annual meeting.
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NewsMost trusts could be using faulty surgical tools
An investigation into the manufacture of surgical instruments has found that just one trust has their equipment checked against British standards by a technologist.
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NewsReview children's heart unit closures, MPs told
Plans to close specialist heart surgery units for children should be reconsidered and other options looked at, MPs have been told.
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NewsDistrict generals face questions over their survival
The Department of Health’s head of provider development has questioned whether district general hospitals can survive within their present “organisational boundaries”.
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NewsImperial appoints SHA figures to board
Imperial College Healthcare Trust has appointed two senior managers from strategic health authorities as its chief financial officer and chief information officer.
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HSJ KnowledgeSimulation Lab: test your healthcare improvement ideas
The latest in HSJ’s series of interactive online simulations allow users to test their ideas for improving operating theatre management, stroke care and more
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NewsHSJ publishes latest in series of interactive online simulations
The simulations, created by Simul8, allow users to experiment with healthcare improvement ideas in areas such as operating theatre management, stroke care and falls prevention.
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SupplementsPreventing acute kidney injury: an HSJ special report
Between 20 to 30 per cent of acute kidney injury is predictable and avoidable, and if clinicians get the care basics right, can be prevented.
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NewsAuditors to query use of foundations’ resources
A number of foundation trusts are likely to face “qualifications”, querying the accuracy of their 2010-11 accounts, because of questions over their use of resources, auditors have warned.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy more freedom for foundations could mean more challenges
What does the full force of insolvency law mean for foundation trusts? Dickinson Dees partner in public services Tim Care looks at some of the challenges that come with new freedoms.
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NewsNew service for private patients launched
Patients who go private will be able to access a new one-stop service designed to help them get the best care.
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NewsExclusive: NHS efficiency drive won’t close whole hospitals, says Sir David
No “whole hospital” will have to close as a result of the drive to find £20bn of efficiencies from the NHS budget, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has insisted to HSJ.
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NewsDH denies FT momentum will be lost
The Department of Health has denied that the impetus behind achieving foundation trust status for all trusts would evaporate after the dropping of the 2014 deadline.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow public involvement was a foundation for improving healthcare delivery in Hertfordshire
Meeting the public everywhere from scout huts to traveller sites has been a vital component of modernising provision in Hertfordshire. Nick Carver and colleagues explain.
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NewsHalf of NHS staff pessimistic on patient care
Patient care is set to get worse in the next few years, according to nearly half of NHS staff surveyed in a government poll.
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NewsTrusts missing NICE guidelines on stroke treatment
“Considerable variation” exists in the time taken to provide stroke prevention surgery, data from the Royal College of Physicians and the Vascular Society has shown.