All Acute care articles – Page 463
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Report calls for more support for employing disabled people
Employers should be trained in the support available in employing a disabled person, according to the Public Accounts Committee.A report on the Department for Work and Pension's support for disabled people says more flexible employment advice should be given to disabled people, that current service provision is patchy and that ...
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Nursing code gets overhaul
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is reviewing its rulebook for UK nurses and midwives. The Code of Conduct is to be made clearer and updated to reflect today's healthcare needs.The draft code was agreed in December and the NMC will be holding a series of focus groups and seminars around ...
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Rotherham chief executive Brian James on why Gerry Robinson can't fix the NHS
'Disappointingly, Sir Gerry never seized the opportunity to explore and challenge consultants as to how they could be more efficient and productive, which is ultimately the key to eradicating waiting times. The opportunity was sacrificed for a much simpler story of consultants versus managers, with both sides presented as stereotypes.'
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Dr Pat Troop on managing the Polonium-210 outbreak
Staff have learned what it is like to work intensively at that speed under public and political scrutiny, and it has been useful training for future events, such as pandemic flu
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Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme
Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.
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Top eye hospital to open site in Dubai
One of Britain's top eye hospitals is to open a branch in Dubai to help pay off debts of around £13m.Moorfields Eye Hospital foundation trust is offering consultants attractive pay packages to tempt them into working at the new hospital which will be known as Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai.The hospital ...
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Stephen Thornton on shared leadership
'Changing people's behaviour when they have been in the same job for years is one of the hardest things to do. Safer patient initiative teams now think less in terms of 'why won't he do that for me?' and more in terms of 'how can I get him to do ...
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A prescription for professionalism
What ideas like NHS independence lack is not the eye-catching headline or even the fine detail but the implementation and local connection
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Nurse wins eight-year legal battle
Nurse Gloria Urquhart will receive more than £70,000 from NHS Fife after winning an eight-year legal wrangle following a fall at Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, in 1998. Ms Urquhart fell heavily when a bed moved as she was lifting a patient.Staff had previously reported problems with the beds but it ...
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Trust chiefs warned on race compliance
The Commission for Racial Equality is going to get tougher on NHS organisations that fail to meet race relations legislation, according to NHS chief executive David Nicholson.He has written to trust chief executives to alert them that the CRE 'will be taking a more proactive stance in exercising their enforcement ...
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Government to 'galvanise action' on MRSA
The Department of Health has vowed to 'galvanise action' to ensure the NHS can meet its 2008 MRSA target.
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Proper workforce planning needed, says BMA chair
British Medical Association chair James Johnson has called on the government to reinstate proper workforce planning - or risk wasting millions of pounds of public money.Speaking at the BMA's 'State of the NHS' briefing, Mr Johnson said: 'In 2008 the year-on-year significant rise in additional NHS resources will fall back ...
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DoH considered fines for MRSA failures
The Department of Health considered imposing financial penalties on trusts which fail to meet MRSA targets, the leaked memo reveals.
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PM's delivery unit to report on MRSA
The prime minister's delivery unit is due to report this month on what more could be done to deliver the 2008 MRSA target.
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Exclusive: Memo says NHS will not meet MRSA target next year - or possibly ever
The NHS is not on track to hit the April 2008 MRSA target - and the government's own experts believe the goal of halving the incidence of infection from its 2004 rate may never be achieved.
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HSJ exclusive: NHS will not hit MRSA target next year
Unison head of health Karen Jennings has criticised the Department of Health for hiding the full extent of the progress being made by the NHS in tackling MRSA, after government documents revealed in HSJ today ( www.hsj.co.uk) show that next year's MRSA target will not ...
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Reconfiguration could save £1bn a year
Patients who stay in hospital longer than necessary are using 13,000 extra NHS beds every year, a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research has said. This could be slashed by providing specialist services in fewer places and transferring more care outside hospitals.Download the full report here
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Helen Bevan on transformational learning
Every so often, I come across research or evidence that gives me profound insight into why things happen the way they do. I experienced just such an epiphany in December, when I led a workshop on transformational learning at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum, the largest healthcare improvement gathering ...
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Gateshead Health foundation trust: safety check on blood
Mismatching blood in transfusion operations can be deadly. So when a national audit revealed some worrying gaps in safety measures, Gateshead Health foundation trust was quick to respond
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Legal briefing: the hidden implications of face transplants
With the stage set for the world's first full facial transplant, Ben Troke examines some of the complex legal and ethical issues that surround the procedure