All Acute care articles – Page 419
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HSJ Knowledge
Supporting older people after discharge
A co-ordinated approach between healthcare agencies, housing associations and local authorities can make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable older people after they leave hospital, as Judy Peaker explains.
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HSJ Knowledge
E-procurement strategy / launch.
Lyn WhitfieldImproving data quality and getting systems to work together are more or less the first issues to arise whenever IT is discussed in the NHS. They apply as much to commercial systems as to clinical ones.Yet the health service has tended not to take a common approach when it ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Emergency admissions
A great deal of media commentary is based on the analysis of figures forEngland. The assumption is that everything is the same in other four countries that make up theUnited Kingdom. However, I felt it was time to test this assumption. This analysis looks at the relatively simple issue of ...
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News
District general hospitals face heavy specialist service losses
District general hospitals face handing their specialist services to regional centres of excellence because they will no longer be paid the services' full cost, HSJ has learned.
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News
Two hospital directors sacked in fraud probe
Two directors of a private hospital group at the centre of an investigation by the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service have been sacked for 'incompetence'.
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News
Trusts doing well will not be penalised for historic deficits
Hospitals working hard to address historic deficits have been given a reprieve by the Audit Commission: they will no longer automatically score 'inadequate' in the resources element of the health check.
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News
Delayed discharge of elderly blamed on funding gap
Bed-blocking is being driven up because hospitals are discharging patients earlier and social services do not have the resources to cope, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has claimed.
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Comment
Payment by results: top-up scheme clears the way for back-door reconfiguration
The changes to the tariff for specialist services revealed in this week's HSJ risk inflaming public opinion just as Lord Darzi's review is supposed to be restoring confidence in how reconfigurations are managed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Knowledege and skills framework - reap the rewards
The knowledge and skills framework of Agenda for Change offers great opportunities for both employers and staff, yet it is not being used to full effect in the NHS. But what can it offer, why is not being used consistently, and what can we do about it? Alastair Henderson explains
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HSJ Knowledge
New NHS Employers healthy workplaces guide
NHS Employers has launched new print and online advice for employers, covering a range of workplace health issues from bullying and discrimination to needlestick injuries, sickness absence and alcohol abuse.
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News
Acute Healthcare Organisation of the Year
Winner South Tees Hospitals TrustIn the space of a little over two years South Tees Hospitals trust has pulled itself back from the brink to become a dynamic and innovative centre of clinical and leadership excellence.The exceptional work that took place to achieve such a turnaround has all been done ...
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS Employers' vision for doctors
NHS Employers has outlined its vision on the training, responsibilities, working environment, career development and job prospects of doctors of the future.
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HSJ Knowledge
CSIP launches toolkit to foster respect
Nurses on acute wards for older people with dementia, delirium or depression will be interested in the new Care Services Improvement Partnership toolkit on respect
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HSJ Knowledge
Infection control: back to the boardroom
Informing the board and protecting patients were the key strands of one trust's infection control drive, writes Alison Norman
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HSJ Knowledge
Ofcare - a break with the past or business as usual?
The recent announcements by the prime minister and the health secretary that there is to be a crackdown on hospital-acquired infections must be good news for patients and healthcare professionals. A new regulator is promised, with tough powers of inspection, investigation and intervention, backed by fines, where hygiene standards are ...
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HSJ Knowledge
PAs allow senior nurses to focus on patient care
Heart of England foundation trust recently piloted the role of senior nurse personal assistant. Since the introduction of four PAs a year ago, there have been demonstrable benefits. Karen Bowley explains
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Comment
Michael White on nursing standards
I didn't know whether to laugh or make plans to flee the country when I read weekend front-page headlines such as 'Nurses to have the power to end a life'
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News
Deficit crisis warning over Scotland's PFI expansion
Plans to more than quadruple the size of NHS Scotland's private finance initiative programme risk creating a deficit crisis akin to that in England, researchers have warned.
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News
Darzi blames poor leaders for hospital infection outbreaks
Minimising hospital-acquired infections should be the responsibility of managers, junior health minister Lord Darzi has told the Commons health select committee.
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News
Trusts 'shell' bed space to keep grip on PFI approval
Hospital trusts are being forced to mothball significant numbers of beds to get government approval for private finance initiative deals.