All Acute care articles – Page 469
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: franchising
Merger with a successful foundation trusts may seem the obvious solution for failing trusts. Indeed, the first such merger between Heart of England and Good Hope is well under way. But merging a successful trust with an unsuccessful target will not necessarily create a financially viable organisation, and the risks ...
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Comment
Data briefing: deficit forecasts, financial reality
The recent quarterly financial report from the Department of Health provides some encouraging signs as the NHS gets to grips with previous years' overspends. But the detail looks patchy.
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HSJ Knowledge
Data Briefing: Variations in length of stay
Length of hospital stay remains one of the greatest variables between acute trusts. By reviewing and influencing discharges commissioners can aim to improve the patient experience and save bed days, increasing capacity and saving money.
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HSJ Knowledge
Data Briefing: Did the extra money go on new staff?
A new analysis of the reason for and distribution of NHS deficits published by the Department of Health, Explaining NHS Deficits, contains an interesting analysis of what the extra funding from 2000-04 was spent on. The answer, apparently, is that nearly 80 per cent was consumed by the costs of ...
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News
How Buckinghamshire is moving opthalmology closer to home
There is a lot of rhetoric about moving care closer to home but how easy is it and can quality be maintained?
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News
Marketing code is 'overly bureaucratic'
The proposed NHS code of marketing has come under fire from the advertising industry and NHS communications professionals.
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News
MRSA gives way to C Difficile superbug
The battle against MRSA infection in NHS hospitals appears to be being won hospital-acquired infection Clostridium Difficileis increasing
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Comment
Media watch: C difficile in Norfolk
The news on superbugs gets worse following reports that a mutant strain of Clostridium difficile has been linked to the death of 17 patients at a Norfolk hospital.
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on living with cancer
'Acupuncture and ginger beer have been as effective as any the anti-emetics I've been doling out for years'
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on living with cancer
Becoming a patient has been a salutary, levelling experience
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News
Watchdog has PbR's care impact in its sights
The Healthcare Commission has said it is interested in assessing the impact of payment by results on patient care.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on why tenders need loving care
Community foundation trusts reproduce the organisations we disbanded five years ago
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News
Government launches eye care commissioning toolkit
Health minister Rosie Winterton has set out the Government's vision for moving eye care services into the community.Ms Winterton also launched a new commissioning toolkit for primary care trusts to help them achieve it, part of a government review of NHS ophthalmic services.Read the review here
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News
Operating framework: prepare for worst case, trusts told
Next year's operating framework places a new accent on planning for worst-case scenarios and allowing 'headroom' for change.
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Comment
Day case rates
Marc Farr says day-case rates over the last three years have shown little sign of improvement
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News
Merger plans for six trusts as Welsh NHS feels cash squeeze
Six acute trusts across Wales are facing mergers after the Welsh Assembly launched a consultation on reconfiguration.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why hospitals are like cashpoints
When I first began talking to primary care staff about the Croydon virtual wards project I had to explain to them that patients would only be offered admission if they ranked highly on predictions from a computer.
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News
Scotland: first privately run treatment centre signed
Contracts were signed last week for Scotland's first privately run regional treatment centre for NHS patients.
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News
MPs find no evidence of improved value from independent treatment centres
There is no evidence that the Department of Health's independent treatment centre programme represents value for money or performs better than the NHS, according to a damning report.