All Emergency care articles – Page 144
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CommentNigel Edwards on winter pressures in the NHS
The NHS has learned much from the demand surges of other winters. But while effective measures are in place, costs are significant and challenges for managers still persist
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NewsThird of NHS trusts fail to prepare for a crisis
NHS organisations are putting vulnerable people at risk by failing to plan for cyber attacks and extreme weather, research suggests.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving stroke care: fast thinking
Despite being one of the country's biggest killers and the largest cause of disability, stroke only recently gained a national strategy. Now the drive for faster intervention is giving it a much needed boost. Jennifer Taylor reports
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Flaws exposed in NHS winter planning
The NHS must improve the way it deals with the increased demand for hospital care in winter months, director general of NHS finance, performance and operations David Flory has said.Mr Flory said in the quarterly update on performance that he was 'disappointed' that the NHS as a whole had missed ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Emergency planning: could you deliver in a disaster?
A hospital that once dealt with the aftermath of a plane crash has emergency planning down to a science. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Scheme launched to reduce unnecessary ambulance call outs
From today ambulance services across England will be able to direct patients to GPs or other health services when they call 999 but do not need an ambulance.The scheme, called NHS Pathways, follows a two year trial in the North East.
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Half of patients may not get lifesaving care
Differences in medical opinion mean some critically ill patients have just a 50 per cent chance of lifesaving emergency treatment, despite being likely to survive if they receive it.
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London and North East lead ambulance foundation trust drive
The first ambulance services are launching bids to become foundation trusts within a year.
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NHS narrowly misses A&E waiting time target
The NHS missed its four hour wait target for accident and emergency services by half a percentage point in the period between October and December last year.
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Rural trust announces major A&E plans
Northumbria Healthcare foundation trust is planning to centralise accident and emergency services at a new hospital.
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SHAs push on A&E targets
NHS chief executives across the country have been under increasing pressure to meet the four hour accident and emergency waiting time target this winter.
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Little sympathy for trusts struggling with A&E targets
Hospital trusts are expected to inform the regional NHS almost immediately of problems in accident and emergency departments.
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Government boosts flu pandemic drug stockpile
The government has awarded contracts to double supplies of antiviral drugs to treat pandemic flu.
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HSJ Knowledge
Older people want more talk in A&E
The third national survey of patients in accident and emergency, which the Picker Institute recently conducted for the Healthcare Commission, found significant improvements since 2004, especially in communication by staff.
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Patients praise A&E but call for better discharge support
Patients have praised the quality of care they receive in accident and emergency departments but raised concerns about the information they are given when discharged.
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Comment
Mark Goldman on shifting healthcare into the community
In spite of every policy and every effort, it is not happening, not so far at least in Birmingham. The endeavours of primary care to shift healthcare into the community are yet to make a significant dent in hospital activity.
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Acute care reconfiguration plans come under review
Proposals for a major reconfiguration of acute care in south east London will be reviewed by the independent reconfiguration panel, it has been confirmed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Alcohol dependency: glad tidings for safer drinking
A social care organisation is identifying and engaging dependent drinkers at three hospitals to help them turn their lives around
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More emergency consultants needed, says college
The number of emergency medicine consultant posts needs to increase from 740 to 1,500 by 2012, according to the College of Emergency Medicine.
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Eight minute emergency response target holds back service improvement
Unprecedented efforts to meet tough response time targets may be diverting ambulance services from referring and treating more patients out of hospital.