All Acute care articles – Page 332
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinical dashboards
Good quality information is known to be a driver of performance among clinical teams and vital to ensuring the right services and best possible care is provided to patients.
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CommentJudith Smith: commissioning needs to be reborn, not killed off
Only radical new approaches will take commissioning forward after the election
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NewsMonitor to look harder for FTs in financial trouble
Monitor has signalled it will become more aggressive in its scrutiny of foundations trusts over the next 12 months in order to identify early those in financial difficulties.
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LeaderNational GP referral guidelines are needed to reduce inequalities
HSJ’s analysis of the first national collection of patient reported quality measures confirms what has long been suspected: better off patients undergo surgical procedures sooner after they develop health problems than poorer patients.
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NewsNHS trust pioneers land purchase
An acute trust is set to become the first in the country to use compulsory purchase powers to acquire land.
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NewsA&E departments have fewer than half the consultants they need
Accident and emergency departments have fewer than half the consultants they need to cope with demand, the College of Emergency Medicine has warned.
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NewsSwine flu bill less than feared
The bill picked up by the Welsh Assembly for dealing with swine flu was £30m smaller than some estimates, it has been revealed.
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NewsCall for hospitals to report knife wounds
Hospitals should provide police with information when victims of woundings are treated in emergency departments, the Liberal Democrats said today.
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NewsCardiac surgery reconfiguration plans get charity backing
A national children’s heart charity has expressed its support for a report calling for the reorganisation of congenital cardiac surgical services in England.
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NewsPatient safety: minimum staff to patient ratios cut death rates
A major US study has added further weight to the argument that setting minimum nurse to patient ratios saves lives.
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NewsFoundation trusts 'failing to listen to staff'
Foundation trusts are operating a “closed door” culture that excludes staff and patients from important decisions, Royal College of Nursing research warns.
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NewsLabour plans would cut thousands of jobs, Tories say
Thousands of NHS medics will lose their jobs over the next five years under Labour’s “secret” cost-cutting plans, the Tories have claimed.
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NewsCall to merge children's cardiac units
Several children’s heart surgery units should stop performing operations and merge with bigger, specialist centres to improve patient safety and care, according to a new report.
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NewsExperts issue cancer care election challenge
A group of cancer experts have challenged political parties to explain how they would cut waits for diagnosis and treatment of the disease, which they said offered the greatest hope of saving lives and improving life expectancy.
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: how green are your care pathways?
The way forward in carbon reduction is through creative commissioning for pathways of care. In the final part in our series on sustainability, Jennifer Taylor looks at how the new approach is gaining momentum
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NewsTories call for locally sourced NHS hospital food
The Tories want details of food served in NHS hospitals published so the public can see if ingredients are locally sourced.
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NewsElection 2010: fight for marginal puts hospitals in the hot seat
Neck and neck competition between political parties in marginal constituencies is leaving acute trusts braced for the political heat. Sally Gainsbury identifies the trusts to watch
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NewsNew doubt about mortality ratios
The appropriateness of using hospital standardised mortality ratios to judge hospital performance was further questioned this week.
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NewsVolcanic ash cloud affects cancer drug supplies
The fallout from the volcanic eruption in Iceland has left cancer patients in the UK without life-extending drug treatment and vital stem cells for bone marrow transplants.
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CommentAlan Maynard: axe must swing on NHS jobs and pay
While politicians are fighting on the campaign trail they will not reveal how they intend to drive up productivity. But once reality is restored the pain will begin