All Children's services articles – Page 4
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News
Children’s services rated ‘inadequate’ as trust remains ‘outstanding’
The children’s inpatient unit at an ‘outstanding’ mental health trust has been downgraded to ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission, amid a surge in demand for its services.
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‘Lack of respect’ for children at ‘inadequate’ hospital
Staff failed to provide kind and compassionate care and did not treat children with respect at a private hospital downgraded from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’, a report by health inspectors has revealed.
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Comment
ICSs should heed voices of children and young people
For genuine coproduction to thrive in healthcare there must be a radical paradigm shift that focuses on embedding the voice of children and young people into the fibres of ICS cultures, behaviours and structures. Coproduction must go beyond traditional organisational boundaries, and with ICSs still forming, there is no better ...
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‘Low priority’ community cases to be deferred as staff redeployed
NHS England has told local systems to defer ‘low priority’ cases across 11 community services, because of the pressures created by the omicron wave.
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HSJ’s 10 most read stories of 2021
As 2021 comes to an end, HSJ takes a look at its most read stories of the year.
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HSJ Local
Children’s hospital appoints new chief executive
A strategy and operations director has been appointed to lead a children’s hospital after serving as its acting CEO.
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HSJ Partners
The importance of prevention in managing winter respiratory viruses
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more. The public, NHS and economy face significant pressures annually from winter respiratory viruses, which can require substantial resources to manage.1,2,3 With covid-19 now also included within the seasonal illnesses being tackled, this winter could ...
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Children’s intensive care at near full national occupancy amid rising RSV
A senior doctor has warned that paediatric intensive care units are ‘as pressured as I can ever recall’ – despite the absence of cold weather, which typically leads to higher demand levels.
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Comment
Mental health faces the toughest three years in living memory
Sean Duggan highlights the challenges faced by the current mental health services, emphasising on requiring immediate fixing through preventive support and public health funding
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News
Routine NHS care may have ‘adverse effect’ on Black and Asian babies
NHS equality experts have ordered a review of neonatal care over concerns that babies from Black and Asian backgrounds are ‘adversely affected’ by routine methods.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021: NHS Safeguarding Award
WINNER Birmingham Community Healthcare FT and Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership: Who’s in Charge? Keeping Children Safe When Adults are Drinking Alcohol
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021: Improving Care for Children and Young People Initiative of the Year
WINNER Humber Teaching FT and Hull CCG: Humber Sensory Processing Hub Website
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News
Troubled provider sees ‘outstanding’ services downgraded to ‘inadequate’
A mental health trust already subject to an inquiry into a string of adult patient deaths has had its rating for children’s wards downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate”.
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News
NHS sets plan for ‘earlier and greater’ children’s ICU demand
The NHS has drawn up contingency plans to substantially dilute specialist nursing in paediatric intensive care, in the event of exceptional increases in serious respiratory illness in coming months.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative
WINNER: Newham CCG: North East London Child Sexual Abuse Hub The North East London Child Sexual Abuse hub is a partner-led approach to developing and delivering medical assessments and sustained emotional support for children and young people (CYP) who have experienced child sexual abuse. The development of the hub was ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Paediatric Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: LB Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets CCG, Barts Health Trust, East London FT, Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, Community Voluntary Sector: Tower Hamlets Together - Born Well, Growing Well Asthma and Wheeze Project The Asthma and Wheeze Project is overseen by the integrated borough-based partnership “Tower Hamlets Together” and sought ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Respiratory Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT: Children’s Community Respiratory Physiotherapy Team (including Rapid Response) The Children’s Community Respiratory Physiotherapy Service are a team of four specialist physiotherapists. The service was established to improve outcomes, quality of life and experience for children with complex disorders, in line with the NHS long term plan. ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Operations and Performance Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT: Form an Orderly (Digital) Queue! EPR Integrated Clinical Prioritisation Provision of an integrated system to work within the electronic patient record capturing prospective and retrospective clinical priority for patients waiting for appointments, investigations and treatment. This was a hospital-wide need affecting all ...
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HSJ Partners
Data will pave the way to earlier, more targeted interventions across integrated care systems
Data-driven targeted early interventions would go a long way towards helping integrated care systems to address the wider determinants of health and wellbeing, and to improve outcomes, writes Brian Waters
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News
Hospitals dilute ICU nurse ratios as staff absences soar
Hospitals in covid hotspots have been forced to start diluting their nurse-to-patient ratios in critical care units, after seeing staff absence levels soar in recent weeks.