All Emergency care articles – Page 116
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HSJ Local
Frimley Park positions itself to become 'major emergency centre'
STRUCTURE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust plans to have a new emergency department and day surgery unit fully operational by 2013-14.
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News
Mid Staffs warned on A&E staffing levels
The Care Quality Commission has issued Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust with a formal warning to improve staffing levels in accident and emergency or risk service closures.
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HSJ Knowledge
Breathing space: how one trust's approach to respiratory pathways is improving outcomes
Royal Bolton Hospital introduced “patient gateways” to improve its respiratory pathway, with great success. Brian Bradley and colleagues explain how they did it.
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HSJ Local
Reduced admissions targets set by Ashford and St Peter’
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT intends to reduce emergency admissions by a quarter over the next three years.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why accident prevention is a major policy issue for public health
The theory goes that prevention of accidents is better, and cheaper, than the cure. Tom Mullarkey argues that it’s now time for public health strategy to put this theory into practice.
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News
Wide variety in UK organ donation rates
The number of organs donated for transplant across the UK varies markedly, new research has suggested.
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HSJ Knowledge
How care bundling drives down mortality rates in pneumonia care
The North West London Hospitals Trust, implementing a care bundle approach, has reduced mortality rates for patients with pneumonia. Trish Winn and Sunder Chita explain how.
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News
Ambulance services strive to avoid A&E
Two of England’s ambulance services have reduced the proportion of patients they convey to accident and emergency departments by more than 7 per cent since April, new figures from the Department of Health show.
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HSJ Local
Warwickshire PCT overspends on acute contracts
FINANCE: Warwickshire primary care trust is over-spending on its acute contracts amid “exceptionally high” emergency activity.
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News
Critical care is risking lives, say surgeons
Thousands of patients who need emergency surgery are having their lives put at risk by poor NHS care and delays in accessing treatment, according to a damning report.
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HSJ Local
'Severe capacity issues' halt emergency admissions at Heatherwood and Wexham Park
PERFORMANCE: Capacity issues at Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust caused a “serious incident” as the trust’s accident and emergency department became unsafe while ambulances queued outside.
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HSJ Local
Aintree FT advises on introduction of medical emergency team at Whiston Hospital
WORKFORCE: The foundation has been advising St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust on its plans to introduce a multidisciplinary medical emergency team, it said in a statement.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why sharing information is central to preventing heart conditions
It was as late as the 1980s before “prevention” stopped being a dirty word at the British Heart Foundation. Importantly, however, times have changed, as the foundation’s health information manager Isobel Booth explains.
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News
Organ donor plans condemned by Archbishop
Plans to introduce presumed consent for organ donation could turn “volunteers into conscripts”, the Archbishop of Wales has warned.
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HSJ Local
Board report indicates problem with new A&E quality measure
PERFORMANCE: A south London trust has highlighted a problem with one of the A&E activity measures.
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News
Sixty hospitals face 'collapse' over PFI deals, admits Lansley
More than 60 hospitals can not afford the rising cost of private finance initiative schemes and are being left “on the brink of financial collapse”, according to the health secretary.
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News
Readmissions policy costing hospital trusts £2.3m a year 'should change'
Hospital trusts are being unfairly penalised by bearing the cost of readmissions which are not their fault, according to the Foundation Trust Network.
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News
Emergency services commissioning needs clarity, committee warns
MPs have called for clarity about who will be responsible for commissioning ambulance services amid concerns that urgent and emergency services could become fragmented.
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News
Blood donor reforms ‘don’t go far enough’
Blood donation eligibility criteria should be based on individual behaviour, backed by advanced screening, not on sexuality, the Liberal Democrats conference has heard.
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HSJ Local
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh ‘on target’ to make emergency admissions savings
FINANCE: NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan’s main acute provider, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT, is on track to make planned savings through reductions in emergency and alcohol related admissions, its latest quality, innovation, productivity and prevention report states.