All Acute care articles – Page 382
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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.
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News
Trusts must collect patient reported data or face fines
Hospital trusts must prepare to ask thousands of patients to fill in questionnaires about their health before surgery - and face fines if not enough do so.
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Foundation trusts call for private patient income flexibility
The Foundation Trust Network has called for a public debate on changing the law to allow foundations to take on more private patient work.
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News
DH promises to pay Maidstone legal bill
The Department of Health has agreed to underwrite the massive legal bill Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust could face if Rose Gibb wins her controversial court case.
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HSJ Knowledge
Referrals between NHS consultants are up
The issue of consultant to consultant referrals is a source of dispute between commissioners and acute care providers.
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News
NHS trusts and commissioners at odds over tariff benefits
Hospital trusts and commissioners are disputing the impact of the new payment by results tariff on their income.
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News
SHAs push on A&E targets
NHS chief executives across the country have been under increasing pressure to meet the four hour accident and emergency waiting time target this winter.
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News
Little sympathy for trusts struggling with A&E targets
Hospital trusts are expected to inform the regional NHS almost immediately of problems in accident and emergency departments.
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News
Acute chiefs' resignations not part of 'massive shakedown' in London
The departure of four acute trust chief executives - two of them resignations amid performance concerns - does not amount to a 'massive shakedown' in London, according to NHS London deputy chief executive Anne Rainsberry.
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News
Rose Gibb and the £250k question
When Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust directors decided to arrange a pay-off for Rose Gibb they did not realise they were walking into a legal minefield. What lessons does the case hold? Alison Moore reports
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News
Suspended chief executive in limbo as review drags on
A hospital trust that suspended its chief executive in October and began a review into his performance has had to appoint a second interim replacement, as the review overruns by more than two months.John Watkinson was suspended by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust following a critical review of his performance ...
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Stroke awareness campaign to save lives and money
A three year campaign to promote public awareness of stroke symptoms was launched by the Department of Health today.
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HSJ Knowledge
Weight loss surgery: who is cut out for it?
Assessment for weight loss surgery - such as gastric bypass or gastric banding - has to ask whether patients are committed to a healthier way of life, insists David Ashton
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News
NHS PROMs results ready by November
Hospitals will be publicly rated by patients' reports of their care before the end of the year.
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West Middlesex trust names Tara Donnelly's replacement
West Middlesex University Hospital trust has appointed an interim chief executive following the resignation of Tara Donnelly.Dame Jacqueline Docherty will join the trust on 23 February from King's College Hospital, where she was deputy chief executive and director of operations.
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Mixed ward target worries
Huge uncertainty exists over whether trusts will be able to comply with health secretary Alan Johnson's new diktat on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy NICE values some patients' lives more
Mike Richards’ review of what to do about top-ups seems to reaffirm the line that the NHS should not subsidise private consumption of healthcare.
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News
Rose Gibb's 'irrational' pay-off went unchecked
NHS South East Coast and the Department of Health were aware a pay-off was under discussion with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust chief executive Rose Gibb - but they failed to intervene to stop it from being signed, a court heard last week.
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Recession puts foundation trust plans at risk
The recession is being cited as a cause for further delays in trusts gaining foundation status.