All Emergency care articles – Page 124
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HSJ Local
GWAS makes 'excuses' for poor performance
PERFORMANCE: Great Western Ambulance Service has submitted an excusing notice blaming industrial action and bad weather for their failure to achieve targets.
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NewsStroke care progress lagging, report suggests
A government campaign to increase awareness of stroke may not have had a long-term effect, according to audit findings.
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HSJ Local
Patients warned they could be turned away from Weston Area Health Trust
STRUCTURE: Weston Area Health Trust has reopened its accident and emergency department as an urgent care centre and is warning patients they could be turned away if they don’t require uregent treatment.
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HSJ Local
Sherwood Forest receives £4.28m more income than planned
FINANCE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust received £4.28m more income than planned last year due to overactivity.
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NewsNHS Blood and Transplant in price freeze pledge
NHS Blood and Transplant has pledged to freeze the price of blood for the next three years.
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NewsBlood clot failings cost NHS £112m
The NHS has paid out £112m in compensation over the last five years after doctors failed to spot deadly blood clots, according to new research.
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HSJ Local
Young patients oppose child cardiac changes
STRUCTURE: Young patients who have been battling heart and lung conditions have come together to oppose plans to end children’s heart surgery at a hospital.
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NewsCardiologists call for better specialist centres
Senior cardiologists have called for a reduction in the number of hospitals performing heart transplants because they want “bigger and better resourced centres” instead.
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NewsTory peer criticises hospital wait
A senior Tory baroness has revealed she had to wait for nearly five hours on a hospital trolley before a bed was found for her.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a chemotherapy outreach service is putting care into the community
An outreach chemotherapy van is part of a new approach to improving care delivery in the community, says Alison Moore.
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HSJ Local
Significant overactivity payments for Newcastle FT
FINANCE: The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust had received £9.2m in overspend against contracts from its main commissioners as of the end of February .
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HSJ Local
Readmissions penalty to cost Newcastle FT 'many millions'
FINANCE: The policy of penalising hospital trusts when their patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge will cost The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust “many £millions”, it reports.
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NewsAlcohol causing thousands of consultations every day, survey reveals
Alcohol was a factor in more than 5,500 GP consultations in Scotland on one day alone last month, according to a new survey.
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HSJ KnowledgeAre commissioners in it for the long haul?
Long-term conditions are likely to take centre stage as GPs get to grips with commissioning - but reforming care for patients with chronic diseases may require changes closer to home, says Alison Moore.
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HSJ Local
Mid Yorks fails on A&E waits for year
PERFORMANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is one of ten trusts nationally to fail against the target to see 95 per cent of accident and emergency patients within four hours.
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HSJ Local
Basildon and Thurrock reports lower than planned A&E figures
PERFORMANCE: Basildon and Thurrock UHFT has reported that accident and emergency attendences were 6 per cent lower than expected for the year.
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NewsLansley blames waiting time rise on snow
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has blamed the “severe winter” for an increase in NHS waiting times.
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HSJ Local
Work to begin this month on new Frimley Park A&E
STRUCTURE: Work is about to start on Frimley Park Hospital’s new emergency department, day surgery unit and helipad.
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HSJ Local
Frimley Park reports high risk of emergency admission care failure
PERFORMANCE: The FT is currently rated as at “extremely high” risk of failing to provide clinical management of emergency admissions.
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NewsAmbulance services eye savings by sending fewer ambulances
Ambulance services plan to save the NHS “tens of millions” by sending fewer patients to hospital, now the category B response target has been scrapped.