Acute Care – Page 6
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NewsExclusive: Elective recovery scheme ‘wide open to gaming’
Plans to pay trusts to validate and sometimes remove patients from their waiting lists could be “wide open to gaming” and create a public perception problem, senior NHS figures have told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital asks patients in corridors to ‘lobby MPs’ for funding
A hospital’s leadership have put up posters in its corridors asking patients to lobby local MPs – who include Wes Streeting – for funding to expand its under-pressure A&E.
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HSJ InteractiveScaling up solutions: disseminating innovation in the NHS
An HSJ roundtable, in association with DXC Technology, explored how the NHS can better share innovations and good practices across organisations
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in November 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsAmbulance handover delays hit record high
Long ambulance handover delays hit record levels in the past week as the winter crisis in the NHS reached its height.
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News‘Distressing’ two-year waits for children’s service quadruple in eight months
Two-year waits for children needing help from community services quietly tripled last year, while such delays for hospital treatment have been virtually eliminated, due to government targets.
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NewsEvery trust given individual elective waiting time target
Every trust must improve its performance against the 18 week elective care target by a minimum of five percentage points by March next year, a new government plan has revealed.
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NewsCharity donates £330m to trust’s hospital rebuild
A charity has donated £330m to the building of a new cancer centre, financial documents reveal.
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NewsNext year's elective target revealed
NHS England is set to commit to treating 65 per cent of elective patients within 18 weeks by next March, as a staging post to meeting the 92 per cent constitutional target by 2029, under plans to be unveiled next week.
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NewsHospital group takes over £450m trust after years of talks
A hospital and community services trust has been taken over by its neighbour.
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NewsNo big increase in waiting list work next year, says NHSE
The NHS will carry out a similar level of elective activity next year as it has this year, despite government ambitions to significantly reduce waiting times, under plans agreed with ministers.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in October 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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HSJ LocalThree acutes set for single CEO and chair
Norfolk’s three acute hospital trusts have announced plans for a new group model led by a single chair and chief executive from April, in a move that would mean axing trust-level CEO and chair positions.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Managers’ regulation long overdue but watch out for unintended consequences
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Targets and terror and tech
This week’s podcast looks at whose job it is to oversee England’s over-mighty provider sector, plus the new world coming into view on technology.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Directors on the stand over Letby’s murders
This week, the podcast looks at accountability in the NHS and the Thirlwall Inquiry.
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CommentGeneric weight loss medicines will place new demands on the NHS
Mark Samuels explores how the UK government is leveraging weight loss medications as a strategy to combat obesity and stimulate economic growth, addressing the significant burden on the NHS
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Named and shamed
This week, the podcast looks at the fallout from a lively NHS Providers conference.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2024: Acute Sector Innovation of the Year
WINNER Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust, Royal Free Hospital, North Central London Integrated Care Board, NHS England, LOCSU et al Single Point of Access
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.