All Ambulance articles – Page 7
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NewsStaff at final ambulance trust vote to join strikes
Staff at the East of England ambulance trust – the only one to escape strike action so far – have voted to join the industrial action.
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NewsParamedics not sent to quarter of urgent calls, admits trust
Some ambulance trusts are not sending paramedics to up to around a quarter of their most serious calls, according to figures obtained by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Putting things right when they go wrong
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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CommentExclusive: the Steve Barclay diaries
There’s only one Steve with the qualities to sort out the country’s ailing health system. As told to Julian Patterson
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NewsSix further ambulance strike dates announced
The union Unite has announced six days of strike action among its ambulance service staff, some of which coincide with action by GMB at the same trusts.
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News‘Marked reduction in pressure’ leads ambulance trust to move from top alert level after 598 days
An ambulance trust is no longer operating under the highest alert level for the first time in 20 months, after the number of calls it receives each day halved and a crucial response time reduced by 95 per cent.
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NewsNurses and ambulance staff to stage co-ordinated strike on 6 February
More than 10,000 ambulance staff will join nurses in co-ordinated walkouts next month, in one of the biggest strikes in NHS history.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Priced out of the market
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsOnly three trusts hit new A&E target
Average ambulance waits for stroke and heart attack patients topped two hours in three regions last month, amid another sharp drop in emergency care performance.
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HSJ LocalEx-police chief to chair struggling trust
A former police chief has been appointed chair of England’s most under-pressure ambulance trust.
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NewsErrors in overflowing EDs causing heart attacks, NHS England warns
Patients have suffered cardiac and respiratory arrests because of errors using oxygen cylinders, NHS England has warned, citing more people being cared for in “areas without access to medical gas pipeline systems” such as corridors and ambulances queuing outside A&E.
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NewsNew discharge fund risks being ‘political theatre’, warn NHS leaders
The government has ‘a week to 10 days’ to distribute the £200m it is committing to speed up hospital discharge if the initiative is to have a meaningful impact on reducing the 13,000 patients who are medically fit to leave hospital, national healthcare leaders have told HSJ.
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NewsAmbulances ‘lose’ 55,000 hours in one week during handover delays
Hours lost to ambulance handover delays, and the numbers of ambulances waiting more than an hour outside hospitals hit new highs in the week after Christmas.
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NewsAmbulance trust asks ICSs for 300 staff to step in on strike day
More than 300 clinicians are being sought from primary care to help London Ambulance Service during next week’s strike, according to a letter seen by HSJ, amid fears it will have a greater impact than last month’s industrial action.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Different dog, same bark
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsExclusive: Ambulance crews urged to conserve oxygen
Ambulance staff are being urged to conserve oxygen supplies because of a national shortage of small cylinders used both on ambulances and in some A&E departments.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read patient safety stories of 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, HSJ takes a look at its most read patient safety stories of the year.
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NewsNew nursing strikes announced as Christmas ambulance walkout is called off
Nurses will walk out for two consecutive days on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January, the Royal College of Nursing has announced.
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NewsTrust chair to step down next year
The chair of an ambulance trust has announced her plans to step down.
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NewsAmbulance strike: ‘We can’t keep doing this’
Yesterday’s ambulance staff strike did not produce the chaos many predicted. Why was this — and what can we learn from it?