All Ambulance articles – Page 19
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2019: Emergency, urgent and trauma care efficiency initiative of the year
Winner Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust: Tameside and Glossop digital health service Care home residents who become unwell in Tameside and Glossop are now assessed remotely before a GP or an ambulance is called, enabling many of them to stay at home at a lower cost to the ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2019: Technology initiative of the year
Winner East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust and GoodSAM: Improving cardiac arrest survival with crowd-sourced CPR Sponsored by East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust introduced a GoodSAM app which allowed it to alert 2,000 people trained in CPR if there was an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest close to them. In ...
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HSJ Local
Ambulance shortage linked to death of patient after eight-hour delay
A patient died after waiting over eight hours while the East Midlands Ambulace Service struggled with a severe shortage of response vehicles.
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Special measures ambulance trust appoints new chief
A former army officer who served in Afghanistan has been appointed the new chief executive of an ambulance trust in special measures.
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Exclusive: NHS trusts dismiss Brexit impact on staff retention
NHS trusts are not expecting disruption to services caused by EU staff leaving because of Brexit, according to analysis by HSJ.
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CQC raises concerns over unregistered private ambulance firms
Concerns have been raised that NHS patients are being transported by unregistered private ambulance firms because of poorly monitored sub-contracting arrangements.
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HSJ Local
Trust issued 'appalling' legal threat to 'suicidal' employee
An NHS trust threatened a staff member with legal action after he reported feeling suicidal, court documents reveal.
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HSJ Local
Children at risk of harm at general hospital, warns CQC
Children being cared for at a district general hospital’s emergency department are at risk of harm, the Care Quality Commission has found, shortly after raising similar concerns late last year.
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Systemic problems found in emergency patient transfers
There is a lack of consistent guidelines or structured national guidance to aid doctors when transferring critically ill patients to specialist units, according to a Healthcare Safety Investigation Board report.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: A&E target reform must be properly debated
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News
Ambulance handover delays down by almost a third last month
Ambulance handover delays were down by nearly 30 per cent in December, data from acute providers published today suggested.
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HSJ Local
Second council supports referral to Hancock over £150m reconfiguration
Health chiefs in Dorset have “confidence” in their plans to reconfigure acute services in the county despite two local authorities asking for a review by health secretary Matt Hancock, they have said.
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Revealed: Vital STP projects face doubt after £1bn fund snub
An £84m urgent and emergency care transformation in Middlesbrough, system wide cancer reconfiguration in South Yorkshire, and a large elective care centre in Norfolk were among projects which missed out on recent government funding.
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Hancock: 'Watertight' case would be needed to change waiting targets
The case for changing the core NHS performance standards would need to be “watertight”, Matt Hancock told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Rural area faces 'major problem' this winter
Regional chiefs have identified Norfolk as a trouble spot this winter, with local ambulance handover delays described as a “major problem”, according to leaked meeting minutes obtained by HSJ.
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Fire 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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Ambulance trust to stay in special measures
An ambulance trust is to stay in special measures after the Care Quality Commission said it was too early to judge if improvements were embedded or sustainable.
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HSJ Local
NHSE chief’s concerns over struggling trust laid bare in leaked minutes
A senior system leader’s concerns about the “significant problems” facing a struggling ambulance trust are laid bare in meeting minutes obtained by HSJ.
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Spike in safety incidents reported by ambulance trusts
The number of incidents reported by ambulance staff last winter jumped 33 per cent compared to the year before.
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Commissioners give struggling ambulance service £10m extra
Commissioners are to pump an extra £10m into ambulance services in the south east this financial year so national standards for responding to emergency calls can be met from the middle of 2019.