All Emergency care articles – Page 141
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NewsPharmacists argue for national contract to pay for flu pandemic work
Pharmacists have warned the lack of a standard contract to pay them for taking on extra work during the flu pandemic could hinder the national response to the outbreak. Payments for community pharmacists are being determined through 86 separate local negotiations.
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NewsMinisters were warned ahead of Mid Staffordshire approval
Ministers and officials were warned Mid Staffordshire had a precarious business model and had breached its MRSA target by two thirds just eight months before it was authorised as a foundation trust.
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NewsResigning trust chair calls for David Nicholson to investigate 'SHA pressure'
The chair of an acute trust has resigned, calling on NHS chief executive David Nicholson to investigate the behaviour of East Midlands strategic health authority in pressurising him to meet access targets.
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NewsStudent medics deployed with ambulance crews
Ambulance service bosses have stood by their decision to deploy trainee paramedics with ambulance crews in an attempt to deal with the extra weekend demand.
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NewsSainsbury's refuses to act as antiviral collection point
Primary care trusts will not be able to include any of Sainsbury’s 230 in-store pharmacies in their local plans to set up antiviral collection points.
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NewsManagers quietly confident as NHS battles swine flu pandemic
Managers and staff are confident the NHS is coping successfully with swine flu, an HSJ and Nursing Times survey reveals.
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NewsLive data tackles accident and emergency demand
Emergency departments could share live information about how busy they are so patients can be sent to the right place.
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NewsNHS hospital franchise plan gets green light
The running of an NHS hospital is to be franchised out, potentially to a private company, in the first arrangement of its kind.
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NewsAsylum seekers to get free NHS treatment
Free NHS treatment is to be given to thousands of failed asylum seekers in Britain, it has been revealed. Currently immigrants who fail to gain refugee status are not entitled to free care, but ministers are set to extend the benefits to those who cannot leave the country “through no ...
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NewsLondon agrees stroke and trauma overhaul
Plans to overhaul stroke and major trauma care in London have been approved by a committee of the city’s primary care trusts.
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NewsTrusts offer A&E doctors generous paid leave
Trusts are offering middle grade doctors jobs with additional paid hours and generous study leave to keep their accident and emergency departments running.
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NewsLondon Ambulance Service appoints new chair
Richard Hunt has been appointed the new chair of London Ambulance Service trust.
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NewsHart announces £22m emergency care centre
Work is to begin on an emergency care centre at the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan.
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NewsThree-digit urgent care number proposals published
The government has published plans for a national three-digit number for accessing non-emergency care.
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NewsSurgery cancelled after fire in MRI suite
Surgery has been cancelled at a south London hospital after patients were evacuated when a fire broke out in a ward.
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NewsMinister seeks urgent talks on ambulance cuts
The rural development minister for Northern Ireland has expressed grave concerns about a proposed cut to regional ambulance services.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe calm after the storm: what chief executives do after 'goodbye'
NHS chief executive is a high profile job and every now and then one such leader suffers a public execution - but these days there is no guarantee of another job in the system for those who leave under a cloud. Alison Moore asks what fate has in store for ...
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CommentDoes my daughter have swine flu?
It’s been a tough month for my 12-year-old; she dislocated an elbow on an activity trip, was involved in a car accident, and then, last Friday, went down with suspected swine flu.
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NewsPublic views sought on plans for new North East hospital
Proposals for major changes to NHS services in Northumberland and North Tyneside have been put out for public consultation until July 28.
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NewsMaggot infestation sparks emergency at Aberdeen children's hospital
Operations have been cancelled and emergency procedures adopted because of an infestation of maggots at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.