All Emergency care articles – Page 156
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NHS Direct 'has no impact on emergency services'
NHS Direct has failed to stem growing demand for emergency medical services, according to a report from Sheffield University's medical care research unit. It found no difference in the use of accident and emergency departments and emergency ambulances, since the helpline was introduced. But NHS Direct 'may have restrained the ...
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Network calls for overhaul of emergency care
A collection of 16 essays published by the New Health Network has called for a radical overhaul of emergency care. Co-editor Dr Tom Coffey said every point of entry to the NHS - the ambulance service, social services, general practice and accident and emergency units - was fraught with delay, ...
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Rise in emergency calls to ambulance services
Emergency calls to England's ambulance services rose by 7 per cent last year, from 3.8 million to 4.1 million, according to figures released by the Department of Health. Almost 1 million of these came from London. The figures show that of the 20 services that have introduced call prioritisation, Staffordshire ...
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Short Cuts: A&E will escape unscathed from £7m savings push
West Surrey health authority has pledged to leave accident and emergency services untouched at the start of a second phase of consultation on building a 'sustainable' NHS. The HA needs to find £7m savings on top of £11m already identified in the first phase of the consultation exercise. It had ...
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Religious conversion aids A&E
A chapel is being converted into a minor injuries unit at Worcester Royal Infirmary to relieve pressure on the accident and emergency department.
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Short Cuts: London action team to review emergency services
London regional office has announced the membership of an action team set up to review emergency services across the capital.Philip Brown, director of information development, who led preparations for last winter in the capital, is heading the project, which also includes clinicians, trust and health authority chief executives and managers, ...
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Poll victory for A&E campaigners
Campaigners fighting to stop Kidderminster Hospital losing its accident and emergency department have scored a dramatic victory in the Wyre Forest district council elections, held on 4 May.
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A&E services unaffected by doubling of calls to NHS Direct
Calls to telephone helpline NHS Direct doubled between its first and second years of operation - but there is no evidence that it is fuelling demand on emergency services, according to a survey launched today.
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Short Cuts: £1m ads to ease pressure on emergency services
The NHS has launched its £1m nation-wide advertising campaign to help people 'consider the full range of healthcare options available to them' before calling an ambulance or heading for accident and emergency. The campaign features a medicine cabinet with the contents highlighting options, including looking after yourself and using local ...
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NHS emergency plans stand up to Paddington pressures
Early verdicts on the Paddington rail crash, which killed up to 40 people and injured 150, are that NHS emergency plans stood up to the pressures of 'a classic major incident'.
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Private emergency unit set up in Surrey
A new company is aiming to create a chain of private 'emergency care units' for people willing to pay to bypass long waits in NHS accident and emergency departments.
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Short cuts Guy's watchers predict 'disastrous' A&E closure
A campaign is starting this week to monitor the effects of closing the accident and emergency department at Guy's Hospital, south London. Guy's Watch claims that the closure, in September, will prove 'disastrous'. A spokesperson for Guy's and St Thomas's trust said that Southwark health authority had already invested in ...
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Dangers of making the shop window too much of a draw £100m boost must not be allowed to reinforce A&E's primary care role
Accident and emergency departments are the front line of acute care, and are effectively the NHS's shop window. But in too many places they still resemble the service as it was in a bygone era. Physically, they have failed to keep pace with the changes taking place around them - ...
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Homeless using A&E due to poor GP access
Homeless people are turning to accident and emergency services because they have difficulty registering with GPs, according to a study by The Big Issue in the North.
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Report identifies 'bottlenecks' in Scottish A&E
Recommendations to streamline the admission and discharge of emergency patients were made this week by the Accounts Commission for Scotland.
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Longer waits at three in four A&E departments compared to 1996
Waiting times have risen in nearly three-quarters of England's accident and emergency departments, according to a survey by the Audit Commission.
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Galbraith launches A&E review at Glasgow hospital after boys' deaths
Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has responded to public concern over the deaths of two teenagers treated at Glasgow Victoria Infirmary by ordering a review of the hospital's general surgery and accident and emergency services.
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Partnership provides emergency bed
In Solihull, the Grove Road GP practice, a total purchasing project, and Solihull social services department have agreed to jointly purchase a bed in a nursing home for patients who may need emergency 24-hour care.