All Acute care articles – Page 376
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Comment
Fight healthcare acquired infections with conviction
Techniques for minimising healthcare acquired infection are well understood. Success is now just a matter of ensuring they are prioritised by all staff, says Janice Stevens
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News
NICE clarifies breast cancer guidance
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has re-worked its breast cancer guidelines in a bid to standardise care across the country.
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News
Health boards meet waiting time targets early
All but three Scottish health boards have met a waiting time target three months early.
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News
Conservatives call for action on blood recommendations
The Conservatives have called for the government to respond to recommendations of an independent inquiry into how thousands of people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS single rooms: preferences and privacy
While getting a one bed room on the NHS is a dream come true for many patients, for staff moving to single room acute care delivery it is an opportunity to break away from old working methods. Alison Moore reports
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News
Scheme launched to reduce unnecessary ambulance call outs
From today ambulance services across England will be able to direct patients to GPs or other health services when they call 999 but do not need an ambulance.The scheme, called NHS Pathways, follows a two year trial in the North East.
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News
Monitor takes fight for FT freedoms to the House of Lords
Monitor has launched a challenge to the government in Parliament to protect foundation trust freedoms and its role as their regulator.The regulator believes proposals in the Health Bill compromise foundation trusts' independence by requiring them to send quality accounts to the health secretary.
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News
NHS top-up rules set for rewrite as fear of litigation mounts
The government is expected to rewrite its guidance on implementing cancer czar Mike Richards' recommendations for top-up payments.Trusts have been observing the draft guidance since it was published in November.
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News
Half of patients may not get lifesaving care
Differences in medical opinion mean some critically ill patients have just a 50 per cent chance of lifesaving emergency treatment, despite being likely to survive if they receive it.
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HSJ KnowledgeA look at non-attendance at outpatient appointments
Last year in England, around 11 per cent of patients failed to attend an outpatient appointment. This equates to 5 million appointments a year. Non-attendance at outpatient appointments - known as did not attends (DNA) - has a significant impact on the NHS in terms of cost and increased waiting ...
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News
Super-trust race enters second lap
Seven NHS and university partnerships remain in the running to become 'super-trust' academic health science centres.As groups reach the second stage of the accreditation process, one trust has confirmed it plans to merge with its partner in a centre.
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News
Sussex merger trusts appoint Marianne Griffiths as chief executive
A chief executive has been appointed to the merged trust proposed by Royal West Sussex and Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trusts.
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News
Major patient choice study begins
The Department of Health is seeking hard evidence that choice improves the quality of services.
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News
Trust blames IT for £10m loss
Royal Free Hampstead Hospital trust has lost as much as £10m due to problems installing a new digital care records service, its chief executive has claimed.
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News
NHS narrowly misses A&E waiting time target
The NHS missed its four hour wait target for accident and emergency services by half a percentage point in the period between October and December last year.
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News
Rural trust announces major A&E plans
Northumbria Healthcare foundation trust is planning to centralise accident and emergency services at a new hospital.
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News
Welsh healthcare regulator raps management at Gwent trust
The Welsh healthcare regulator has published two reports critical of management of a provider's maternity, community and mental health services.
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News
St George's Healthcare trust appoints chief operating officer
Patrick Mitchell has been appointed chief operating officer at St George's Healthcare trust in south London.
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Leader
SHAs must not resurrect Stalin as a solution to their problems
Three questions of vital importance to NHS managers collide in this week's HSJ - what should happen to trusts with little hope of achieving foundation status, what should happen to chief executives who are struggling to deliver, and what is the right relationship between a strategic health authority and its ...
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News
NHS managers voice worries over 'Stalinist' SHA tactics
A ‘Stalinist’ culture is draining the NHS of experienced chief executives and making trusts insular and risk averse, senior leaders have told HSJ.