All Acute care articles – Page 447
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Formula for inspiration
'Sheep dip', one-size-fits-all management courses do not inspire doctors to become leaders. Instilling true leadership skills is much more complex, says Jenny Simpson
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HSJ Knowledge
David Amos on grievances
Groups of professionals find it remarkably difficult to talk about anything other than the day job. A cluster of doctors will swap stories - in confidence of course - about interesting and demanding patients.
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Jasbir Sunner on academic health science centres
Our vision and strategy for an AHSC, strongly supported by clinicians, bodes well for the future of hospital services in north west London
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Best practice: lessons from US on patient safety
Whether its superbugs, medical error or the rise in diabetes, the US health system faces strikingly similar problems to the NHS. Andrew Castle switches on to watch.new.US documentary series Remaking American Medicine, which shows how we can tackle them.
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Ruth hussey on offender health services
The growing prison population is a significant issue for both primary care and acute trusts. Just as general healthcare is moving towards prevention, so is criminality. We need to look at what the NHS and social care can do to stop people committing ...
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Healthcare professionals work action plan published
NHS trade unions, the Department of Health and NHS Employers have put together an action plan to help healthcare graduates find work.Recommendations from the plan include encouraging new graduates to apply for entry posts and talent pools of all new qualifiers.Read the press release here
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Financial squeeze cost 22,300 posts, says RCN
More than 22,300 NHS posts have been lost in the last 18 months because of the financial crisis hitting the health service, according to a new report from the Royal College of Nursing.Our NHS: today and tomorrow claims the government's insistence that trusts balance their books last year has led ...
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Latest information for health and social services chiefs released
The Department of Health has issued its latest bulletin for NHS and council chief executives and social services directors.It includes information about a best practice toolkit for the mental health workforce and statutory guidance on safeguarding the welfare of children.Get the bulletin here
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Web system to monitor C Difficile hotspots
The Department of Health has announced it setting up a new web-based system to monitor Clostridium difficile.The new system, similar to the one used to monitor MRSA, will show where cases occur rather than just assigning all cases to the trust reporting the problem.The DoH hopes it will identify C ...
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Nurses want more time on patient care, says survey
Three-quarters of staff nurses in acute trusts say they do not spend enough time on direct patient care, according to research by HSJ and Nursing Times. And nine in 10 of those believe this has an adverse impact on patients.
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Comment
Patient safety: Avoiding blame will not remove danger
Is the desire to establish a 'no blame' culture around patient safety becoming dangerously close to being seen as an end in itself rather than as a necessary aid to progress?
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Why the talking cure can help ease the reconfiguration blues
A list is circulating - despite Department of Health denials - of 18 trusts that have been deemed unviable in their present form and on which strategic health authorities will be acting. There will probably be few surprises in the names and no surprise that major restructuring of acute services ...
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New wave of community hospitals and services
Health minister Andy Burnham has unveiled a £50m wave of new NHS community hospitals and super surgeries.Six new health centres, two new community hospitals and eight refurbished community hospitals will open across the country as part of a drive to increase capacity for minor operations, medical tests and follow-up care ...
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£45m funding boost for national research programmes
The Department of Health has pledged £45m for 29 research programmes to be carried out by the National Institute for Health Research.The programmes will cover areas including mental health, children's medicines, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, stroke and neurology.Read the press release here
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WHO praises price cuts for HIV drugs
The World Health Organisation has welcomed the decision of Abbott Laboratories to significantly reduce the price of lopinavir/ritonavir, a second-line antiretroviral therapy to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS.WHO has reaffirmed its commitment to universal access to HIV prevention services and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS by 2010.Read more ...
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Hewitt unveils patient choice plans
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced new measures to increase patient choice.The NHS Choices website will go live in July, and a pilot will see trained librarians helping the public to access choose and book.Ms Hewitt also said there will be 'free' choice of any hospital provider in the country ...
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Ofsted publishes children's services report
Education regulator Ofsted has published a report on joint working in education and children's services across the country.Narrowing the gap: the inspection of children's services says partnership working between different sectors provides 'a clear strategic focus on key priorities' in meeting children's health needs.Read the report here
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BMA welcomes embryo ruling
The British Medical Association has welcomed the European Court's decision not to allow Natalie Evans to use embryos fertilised by an ex-partner in IVF treatment.Commenting on the ruling, BMA medical ethics committee chair Dr Tony Calland said the European Court has supported the principle of consent from all parties.Ms Evans ...
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Scottish Labour party vows to halve waiting times
The Scottish Labour party has pledged to halve waiting times to 18 weeks from referral to treatment by 2011. The promise comes in the party's new manifesto, launched today.There is also a specific commitment to cut waits to see physiotherapists, clinical psychologists and chiropodists to nine weeks by the same ...
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Cash pledge for London research centres
Two expert research centres in London have received more than £10m in funding from the Department of Health.The money is intended to drive improvements in the safety, quality and effectiveness of the services the NHS provides to patients and the public.