All Emergency care articles – Page 133
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Royal College of Midwives warns against NHS cuts
Cuts being planned for the NHS could lead to the emergence of “baby factories”, the disappearance of some hospitals from cities and a general worsening of healthcare in the UK, the Royal College of Midwives trade union has said.
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Ambulance trusts shun urgent care centres
Commissioners have criticised ambulance trusts for not delivering appropriate patients to urgent care centres instead of A&E departments in some parts of the country.
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A&E departments have fewer than half the consultants they need
Accident and emergency departments have fewer than half the consultants they need to cope with demand, the College of Emergency Medicine has warned.
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Call for hospitals to report knife wounds
Hospitals should provide police with information when victims of woundings are treated in emergency departments, the Liberal Democrats said today.
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Violent attack admissions fall
Hospitals saw a slight fall in the number of people needing treatment after being injured in violent attacks, academics have revealed.
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Monitor increases FTs' efficiency target
The foundation trust regulator Monitor has issued revised financial guidance to providers warning they may need to cut more costs than previously expected.
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Royal Free closes A&E after power failure
The Royal Free Hospital in London was forced to close its accident and emergency department today after a power failure.
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Cost of weekend A&E police cover revealed
Hospitals are paying tens of thousands of pounds for police officers to cover accident and emergency departments on Friday and Saturday nights, it has been disclosed.
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How Labour saved the NHS from the brink
Nigel Crisp believes that when Labour inherited the NHS in 1997 it was ‘falling apart’. After four years away from the service the former chief executive reflects on the successes of the last 13 years - and the missed opportunities. By Alastair McLellan
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A&E alternatives ‘confuse’ the public
Many of the health centres presented as alternatives to hospital accident and emergency offer unreliable services and confuse the public, advisers to the Department of Health have warned.
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Better alcohol services could save hospitals £393m
Tens of thousands of hospital admissions for alcohol could be prevented each year if services to help drinkers were improved, a new report claims.
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A&E targets 'compromising safety'
Accident and emergency waiting time targets are endangering patient safety and care, a leading group of doctors has warned.
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Ambulance system backed despite death
Ambulance bosses have reassured the public the systems used to dispatch emergency vehicles are up to scratch after it was revealed that a woman died when the ambulance sent to her was diverted to another incident.
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Assault reporting scheme rolled out
A surveillance scheme has been launched that uses NHS hospital data to provide a snapshot of the number of assaults taking place each year in Scotland.
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Andrew Lansley backs Burnley crusade
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has backed calls for accident and emergency status to be restored to the emergency service at Burnley General Hospital in Lancashire.
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A&E wait is not being gamed, new data suggests
The proportion of patients admitted from accident and emergency units without first being assessed or treated has more than halved since the four hour target was introduced.
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A&E waiting times not misreported deliberately, says chief
The chief executive of a trust where thousands of records were changed to make it appear that accident and emergency patients were treated within four hours has said it was not done deliberately to distort the hospital’s performance.
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Noel Plumridge on the rules of payment by results
A rules-based system. That was the aspiration in 2004 when payment by results was introduced to England’s NHS.
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Nottingham trust criticised over waiting time irregularities
One of England’s busiest accident and emergency departments failed to report breaches of the four hour treatment targets for at least four years, an independent report has said.
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Emergency medical retrieval service to be extended
Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service will be extended to cover all of remote and rural Scotland, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.