All Acute care articles – Page 410
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Staff sacked after offensive image probe
A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.
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The risky business of ignorance
A new report suggests that organisations in the health sector have a misplaced confidence about their ability to cope with uncertainty and change
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School for scandal
If a hospital is unhappy about how it has been represented in a newspaper or magazine, it has the means to complain. Sue Roberts explains
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Open meetings, open minds: a view from the front-line
Over the last six months, as part of a pilot for NHS Conversations, our foundation trust has been holding a number of open meetings at which all levels of staff can put forward views on improving the patient experience and functioning better, writes Clive Underwood
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Comment
Creating a fearless ITC strategy
Trevor Ludlam's organisation used the national programme for IT as a springboard for implementing a wide range of IT innovations. From integrated patient records to digital pens in A&E, here he explains what they did and how they did it
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Helen Bevan on the shape of things to come
I'm proud to be a Coventry resident. Among Coventry's many attributes are a) it's the home of the NHS Institute and b) it has its own Ikea store.
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Ali Mohammed on the makings of morale
Who might have said the following: 'It's a dead-end job', 'I'm bored out of my skull' and 'This place sucks'?
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Monitor challenges DH on freedoms
Battle lines are hardening between foundation trusts and the Department of Health over the trusts' future, following a series of leaked letters between the leaders of the NHS and regulator Monitor, reports Sally Gainsbury. The correspondence has exposed a gulf between their positions on New Labour's flagship hospitals.
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Steve Onyett on Paxman's pants
While "pants" is a term of derision in the vernacular of youth, Jeremy Paxman's exchange last month with Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose has done the men of our nation a service by highlighting the importance of being supported in all the right places.This is not the ...
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Trust plans to scrap jobs and shelve units
Trafford Healthcare trust has launched a turnaround plan in a bid to avoid a £7m deficit next year.
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Johnson irks committee as he ducks careers queries
Health secretary Alan Johnson has rankled MPs by refusing to answer questions at a health select committee inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers.Mr Johnson batted off a series of questions about junior doctors' training, saying he could not comment before the Department of Health's formal response to the Tooke report.
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Cardiac target to cut deaths met early
The NHS has made 'outstanding progress' in managing cardio- vascular disease, according to two reports published this week.
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Kidney disease: detection is better
Chronic kidney disease is an underdiagnosed but increasingly common condition. Estimates suggest 4-9 per cent of adults experience the more advanced stages of the disease. The burden on the health service is growing, and 1-2 per cent of the NHS budget is now spent on dialysis alone, say David Meechan ...
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Commissioning begins at home
The Teenage Cancer Trust has blazed a trail for charities by investing in commissioning. Sue McLellen and Simon Davies explain
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Basic data 'should be free'
The chief executive of the Information Centre has promised to 'put right' the perception that Dr Foster has Intelligence unfair access to NHS data.
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Ambulance services deny claims of patient stacking
Ambulance services and the Department of Health have hit back at claims that patients are being deliberately detained in ambulances to ensure hospitals hit accident and emergency waiting-time targets.
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Hospitals gain ground in acute services battle
Three West Sussex hospitals have moved a step closer to retaining many of their acute services.
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Accounting change could strain PFI
The Department of Health has refused to say whether or not it has set aside any resources to help trusts cope with a major change to private finance initiative schemes later this year.
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Career Path: rising to the top
Dr Simon Eccles talks to Stuart Shepherd about his path from medical school to a variety of roles in NHS management
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Career Path: rising to the top
Dr Simon Eccles talks to Stuart Shepherd about his path from medical school to a variety of roles in NHS management