All Acute care articles – Page 483
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Controversial decision taken on acute NI shake-up
Published: 27/02/2003, Volume II3, No. 5844 Page 7
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Disparity in acute trust service costs shows dramatic narrowing
Published: 07/11/2002, Volume II2, No. 5830 Page 4 5
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Private healthcare director targets acute services
Published: 09/05/2002, Volume II2, No. 5804 Page 6
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Policy shift gives fresh focus to acute mental healthcare
Published: 02/05/2002, Volume II2, No. 5803 Page 4
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Acute anxieties
general hospitals: Every district general hospital has suffered at least 15 years of neglect. Now it is time to empower front-line staff and overcome consultants' reluctance to join the modernisation agenda. Mike Pollard reports
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Acute need
ACUTE HOSPITAL SERVICES The NHS is commissioning more work from the independent acute sector, but long-term contracts are slow to emerge. Alison Moore reports
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Who provides what, where: acute hospitals
ACUTE HOSPITALS GUIDE - A guide to the main acute independent hospitals in England by health region. The list refers to mainstream services and does not cover many specialised and niche providers
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'Failure' of acute trusts seen as ruse to ease their demise
The apparent failure of many of Scotland's acute trusts to keep within budget could hasten their demise, senior managers claimed last week.
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Social services cash crisis will add to acute bed woes
The Registered Nursing Homes Association has written to the candidates of all the major political parties warning that shortfalls in social services finances will mean that many elderly people 'will get stuck in acute hospital beds for weeks on end because there are no nursing home places available to which ...
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SHORTCUTS: Opponent of acute services shake-up to stand as MP
Campaigners who opposed a major acute services shake-up in Kidderminster are to stand a candidate in the general election. Health Concern - the group that currently holds 18 of the 42 seats on Wyre Forest district council - is to stand Dr Richard Taylor against sitting Labour MP David Lock ...
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Trusts' debts threaten Scottish acute review
Implementation of reviews of acute services across Scotland may be threatened by the escalating debt faced by many trusts.
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Publicly funded schemes losing more acute beds than PFI deals
More acute beds have been lost in publicly financed hospital building projects than in private finance initiative deals, NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates has claimed.
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Mental health 'czar'demands zero suicides on acute wards
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has ordered the NHS to take 'immediate action' to meet targets for zero suicides on acute psychiatric wards by the end of March 2002.
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Not just acute idea
The private finance initiative's sphere of influence is spreading far beyond the acute hospitals of the first wave - a trend further boosted by the NHS plan. Seamus Ward reports
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Acute pressure begins to build as Hutt issues winter advice
Welsh trusts were running at full capacity last week as guidance aimed at relieving acute pressures next winter was issued by health secretary Jane Hutt.
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Review for NI acute services
An independent review of acute hospital services in Northern Ireland is underway as part of a plan to develop health and personal social services published this week.
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Move to strip out acute services early
Worcester Acute Hospitals trust has moved to strip Kidderminster General Hospital of its acute inpatient services up to two years earlier than planned in an apparent bid to outfox campaigners opposed to the move.
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CHI pilot volunteers ruled out in favour of 'typical acute services'
All 10 trusts that volunteered to be the first inspected by the Commission for Health Improvement have been ruled out as pilot sites for the organisation's clinical governance reviews.