All Acute care articles – Page 371
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Hospital trust opens GP centre
A hospital trust in Warwickshire has become the first to take over the running of a GP-led health centre.
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NewsRoyal Free chief resigns
Royal Free Hospital trust chief executive Andrew Way has resigned from his post to run a group of hospitals in Australia.
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NewsHospital death rates to be published on NHS Choices website
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has instructed the website NHS Choices to publish each hospital trust’s overall death rate.
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NHS hospitals still failing to protect patient mealtimes
Almost a fifth of hospitals in England and Wales are not halting work at mealtimes to help patients eat, five years after the launch of NHS Estates’ protected mealtimes initiative.
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Foundation trusts warn competition could fragment NHS
Foundation trusts have warned that NHS services risk being destabilised and fragmented under new competition rules.
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NewsCompetition panel launches inquiry into consultants' private work
The NHS co-operation and competition panel is expected to launch its first inquiry this week into NHS consultants working for hospitals other than their main employer during their spare time.
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Staff pay comes under scrutiny to save costs
The expected squeeze on NHS funding growth means organisations will need to consider cutting jobs and pay, a leading management consultancy has claimed.
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Minor injuries unit closes through lack of use
A weekend minor injuries clinic intended to reduce admissions at an under-pressure accident and emergency department has shut because too few patients used it.
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PCTs win reconfiguration legal battle
A planned judicial review into the reconfiguration of maternity services at Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals trust has been rejected by a High Court judge.
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NewsAcute overspending raises questions over PCT plans
Primary care trusts have overspent against acute contracts by hundreds of millions of pounds, raising questions over the success of efforts to deliver care more cheaply in the community.
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Monitor reports 'lack of appetite' for foundation trust status
An “apparent lack of appetite” for foundation status is more of an obstacle to authorising all trusts than the recession, Monitor has said.
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£30m boost for Welsh hospital redevelopment
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has earmarked £30m for the redevelopment of the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, she announced today.
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NewsMid Staffordshire redundancies under scrutiny
Mid Staffordshire hospital trust paid out £1.3m in redundancy payments between 2006 and 2009, figures disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed.
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CommentClinical mistakes: how to respond
A new approach to handling NHS complaints has been introduced. Joan Saddler, director of patient and public affairs at the Department of Health, explains what it means for clinicians and managers
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BlogsWhat went wrong at Mid Staffs?
Yet again we have a badly under-performing hospital, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of, mainly elderly, patients.
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Economic downturn forces many PCTs to rewrite funding forecasts
Primary care trusts are having to redraft their five year strategic plans because of out of date assumptions about funding in 2011-12.
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CommunityMedia Watch: hospital parking charges report
The measured reasoning of the NHS Confederation’s hospital parking charges report is failing to quell a mini rebellion in Lancashire.
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Foundation trust fights London centralisation
A London foundation trust is rallying members to help protect services against centralisation.
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Care Quality Commission rules lack teeth on patient experience
Proposed registration rules for NHS providers are “far too weak” to make sure they take account of patient experience, the Picker Institute has warned.
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NewsFour foundation trusts on alert for hygiene failures
Four foundation trusts have had their governance ratings set to amber and been ordered to comply with hygiene standards after failing to meet the criteria for full registration with the Care Quality Commission.