All Diagnostics articles – Page 3
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2024: Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Initiative of the Year
WINNER NCL Imaging Academy: Clinical Simulation Training To Support And Manage A Deteriorating Patient In Both The Acute And CDC Clinical Settings
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HSJ Local11,000 patients may have been given wrong test result
Up to 11,000 patients may have received incorrect test results – including being misdiagnosed as diabetic – due to an equipment error at a trust, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Unrealistic’ new targets set for cancer tests
New activity targets set for community diagnostic centres this month will not be met on current staffing levels, experts have warned.
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HSJ InteractiveCould artificial intelligence help refine diagnostic pathways for arrhythmia?
A recent HSJ webinar, in association with iRhythm Technologies, explored challenges in arrhythmia diagnosis, highlighting AI’s potential and the need for patient trust
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HSJ PartnersA model of efficiency: Reducing cancelled procedures with digital prep support
One in 20 colonoscopies do not go ahead as planned due to poor or insufficient prep. King’s College Hospital’s Mayur Kumar explains how his trust worked with Healthcare Communications to reduce cancellations by 28 per cent, saving £336,000 a year.
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CommentWait list and wait times worsened again in May
A worsening situation in the penultimate waiting times data for the outgoing Conservative government
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed if artificial intelligence could help refine diagnostic pathways for arrhythmia
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. More than 2 million people in the UK are said to have arrhythmia and 1.4 million of those have atrial fibrillation – a heart rhythm disturbance in which the heart beats irregularly ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2024: Optimising Clinical Pathways Through Digital
WINNER Humber NHS Teaching Foundation Trust and Owl Therapy Centre: Hybrid Neurodiversity Assessments
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News5,500 managers would be cut under Conservatives’ primary care plan
The Conservatives have announced they would cut a further 5,500 NHS managers from organisations not providing “frontline patient care” to fund an expansion of primary and community services.
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HSJ PartnersNew report reveals how insourcing and capacity optimisation can transform NHS delivery
18 Week Support’s innovative insourcing model enhances NHS efficiency, reduces waiting times, and strengthens patient care, writes Paulo Sergio Andrade
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CommentDementia is a system challenge
Fiona Carragher, director of research and influencing at Alzheimer’s Society, discusses the findings of The King’s Fund’s research and how ICSs could achieve more in improving dementia diagnosis
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Takeover
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsTrusts face threat of legal action due to new quality standards
Trusts could be exposed to increased negligence claims as a result of new NHS England guidance for a rare spinal condition, a royal college has claimed.
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NewsNHSE looks to match Scotland on cancer tests
NHS England is piloting a scheme to lower the threshold for getting a bowel cancer scan after screening, which would bring it in line with standards in Scotland.
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HSJ PartnersThe role of AI in decreasing cognitive and workload burdens for NHS healthcare professionals
The transformative power of artificial intelligence will not only empower NHS healthcare professionals by reducing cognitive and workload burdens but will lead to better patient care and outcomes
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NewsNHS backlogs drive £20m boost for private cancer firm
A private cancer provider has grown its turnover by £20m – more than 20 per cent – in the past year on the back of the NHS cancer backlog, it reports.
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HSJ PartnersTransforming NHS patient care: The evidenced impact of 18 Week Support on reducing waiting times
Claire Dubowski, chief executive officer of 18 Week Support, highlights the impact of their collaboration with the North West Anglia FT in eliminating backlogs and enhancing patient care
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NewsTop trust warns GPs of 15-week wait for scans
England’s largest hospital trust has written to GPs warning their patients face 15-week waits for routine MRIs, ultrasound and CT scans.
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News‘We don’t want to be a DGH’ says smallest trust’s CEO
England’s smallest acute provider could have a bright future providing services for the community as well as delivering regional and national specialist services, its new chief executive has said.
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HSJ PartnersDigitally transforming diagnostic pathways as NHS ramps up GP Direct Access to CDC resources
The advent of community diagnostic centres is welcome. But without their integration into pathways, systems and patients will struggle to benefit. Innovative Scottish company Lenus Health has evidenced a better way, using its plug-in digital diagnostic pathways to coordinate and automate the patient diagnostic journey from referral to treatment plan