All Acute care articles – Page 416
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Chief medic warns safety standards not high enough
The core standards used to measure trusts' performance in annual assessments are 'not strong enough' on patient safety, the chief medical officer has told HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge
Readmission is not simply correlated to length of stay
Over the past few years, length of stay has gone down while readmissions have gone up. It is tempting to see these two facts as related, but the truth is more complicated.
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Credit crunch puts Kent PFI under threat
Plans by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust for a new private finance initiative hospital were dealt a blow this week when the bonds intended to finance the deal were downgraded.
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Posts left open as national locum shortage takes hold
Leaked Department of Health documents reveal a national shortage of locum hospital doctors, with some trusts reporting they are 'lucky if applicants attend for interview'.HSJ first highlighted the issue last year and the DH insisted as recently as 14 February this year that there was no evidence of a widespread ...
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ISTC contract guarantees will saddle NHS with a £187m bill
Deals with private contractors have left the NHS facing a hidden £187m bill to buy back some of the controversial independent sector treatment centres, HSJ has learned.
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How to upskill your workforce
Upskilling the existing healthcare workforce is a way to improve services and enhance career progression, writes Tess Green
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Health Foundation welcomes Brown's self-management pledge
The Health Foundation has welcomed prime minister Gordon Brown's emphasis on increasing support for patient self-management in his recent speech on the NHS.
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Building organisational trust in the health service
Even the best managers might find that their staff's sense of trust is dictated by factors outside their control, says Blair McPherson
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Looking for the latest leaders for change
Applications for round six of the Health Foundation's Leaders for Change programme are open.
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Why are there so few BME managers?
With the vast majority of senior NHS managers classed as white, why are there still so few from black and minority ethnic backgrounds? Charlotte Santry reports
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NHS chaplaincy: a spirited row
Chaplaincy is making its case to become a commissioned NHS service. Daloni Carlisle reports
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How to close the readmission revolving door
New software takes the guesswork out of assessing readmission risk, helping services to target resources. Louise Hunt reports
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Jenny Rogers on embarrassing emails
About 25 years ago on a management development course I was taken to visit Hewlett Packard.
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Creating health-promoting hospitals
Liverpool's Cardiothoracic Centre and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital have developed public health strategies aimed at improving the health of hospital staff, patients and the wider community affected by the hospitals, as Dr David Taylor-Robinson explains
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Equal... or else
The consequences are set to get a lot more serious for trusts which fail to meet their race equality obligations, writes Rachael Heenan
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Leaked memo reveals national locum shortage
Leaked Department of Health documents have revealed a national shortage of locum hospital doctors, with some trusts reporting they are 'lucky if applicants attend for interview'. HSJ first highlighted the issue last year and as recently as 14 February the DH was insisting there is no evidence of a widespread ...
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Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.
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'Dangerous' surgeons being put on specialist register
Doctors deemed to be a danger to patients are being put on the specialist register and permitted to work as consultant surgeons, HSJ has learnt.
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Monitor fights shy of legal tussles
Monitor will seek to avoid tightening the rules on income from private patients because it fears legal reprisals from foundation trusts, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to spend less while doing more
New national reference costs data shows that in 2006-07 the NHS in England spent less cash on inpatient, day case and emergency care than in 2005-06. Scroll down to view the charts at the end of the story.