All Admissions and discharge articles – Page 9
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CommentLittle evidence that integrated care initiatives deliver
Theo Georghiou on how many evaluations find very little sign that integrated and community care initiatives produce reductions in costs or emergency admissions to hospital
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CommentLocal organisations can help implement the long-term plan
Alex Lohman explains how local healthcare organisations and charities with expertise in managing specific health conditions – like sight loss and how to avoid it – can help meet the goals of the long-term plan
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Improvement in Emergency and Urgent Care
Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust – Children and young people’s ambulatory care experience Children and young people account for 30 per cent of emergency department attendances in Bradford. But in 70 per cent of these cases, the patient is discharged after an initial observation – only five per cent are ...
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CommentWaiting times steady as admission rates recover
Waiting times didn’t get significantly worse in September, and some indicators improved. But it’s still going to be tough to stop the waiting list from growing this financial year. By Rob Findlay
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NewsFire service to ferry winter hospital patients home
A local fire service has stepped in to help a struggling hospital trust ferry patients home as part of its winter plans.
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CommentWhy Plymouth hospital is 'insourcing' an elective unit
University Hospitals Plymouth has announced a novel partnership with Care UK, for the independent provider to carry out a large amount of elective surgery. Ann James, Plymouth chief executive, and Jim Easton, of Care UK, explain the project.
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CommentElective admissions fall again
Elective admissions fell to their lowest July rate in 10 years. It wasn’t a patch on winter’s torrid slowdown though. By Rob Findlay
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NewsRegulator sets out winter priorities
Regulators today sent out their latest winter orders to trusts and published a long-awaited review of the 2017-18 winter.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Can more chairs save beds?
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing, James Illman’s fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving Value in the Care of Frail Older Patients
Winner Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group and Walsall Healthcare Trust: Enhanced Health Care Model for Nursing Homes Data showed that nursing homes admissions to accident and emergency in the Walsall area usually involved the ambulance service being called and 90 per cent of these admissions were due to five reasons – ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Specialist Services
Winner University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust: Mechanical Thrombectomy in Stroke – Produces Improved Clinical Outcomes and Cost Benefits University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust has introduced a new mechanical clot extracting interventional technique for patients with strokes. The previous gold standard treatment – thrombolysis – was only effective in ...
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NewsSwindells: Trusts must improve poor weekend discharge rates
NHS England will be telling hospital trusts to examine their weekend discharge rates, which are three-quarters lower than on Monday to Friday, Matthew Swindells has said.
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CommentThe back story of the former bagel mogul behind ‘Care BnB’
The CareRooms concept occurred to me after spending the last 25 years in healthcare and being a long term carer for my father, who died in 2016. But I started off selling bagels. By CareRooms chief executive Paul Gaudin
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NewsRevealed: Best and worst performing vanguards
NHS England figures obtained by HSJ show how each national new care model vanguard has performed on the programme’s “efficiency” measures.
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HSJ InteractiveWe need an evolution in how primary care works
A stronger, reinvented model of primary care will be as central to the NHS’s next 70 years as it has been for the last 70. By Michael Macdonnell
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CommentBehind closed doors – why people end up in and out of hospital
A recent research report highlights that repeat hospital admissions are a sign that something is wrong in the home environment and simple measures like home checks can end the cycle of discharge and readmission, says Mike Adamson
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HSJ LocalStruggling teaching hospital buddied with best performing A&E
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has been buddied with Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Foundation Trust as it looks to “rapidly redesign” its emergency care service.
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HSJ LocalPatient died after being discharged with pencil inside them
An inquest will be held after a hospital discharged a patient despite staff knowing he had a 17cm object inside him, which turned out to be a pencil that later killed him.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief outlines plans for A&E performance 'surge'
The chief executive of a major acute hospital trust has outlined a series of actions being taken to turnaround the trust’s poor accident and emergency performance.
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NewsVanguard launching first bed management system across trusts
The country’s only mental health vanguard is preparing to launch the first bed management system across multiple trusts, to halve the number of patients being sent out of area.