All Emergency care articles – Page 49
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Expert Briefing
Greater Manchester eyes 52 NHS sites for 1,700 new homes
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Fire service to ferry winter hospital patients home
A local fire service has stepped in to help a struggling hospital trust ferry patients home as part of its winter plans.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The price of parity
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Under fire trust receives third CQC warning
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has received another warning from the Care Quality Commission over the safety of its services, HSJ has learned.
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News
CCGs considered refusing temporary patients
Three clinical commissioning groups considered rejecting temporary registrations in a move which the British Medical Association said would breach NHS regulations and potentially drive people towards accident and emergency.
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Comment
Why Plymouth hospital is 'insourcing' an elective unit
University Hospitals Plymouth has announced a novel partnership with Care UK, for the independent provider to carry out a large amount of elective surgery. Ann James, Plymouth chief executive, and Jim Easton, of Care UK, explain the project.
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Comment
Cost efficient and compassionate care of the homeless
Pippa Medcalf and Deborah Lee on how Gloucester is tackling the problem of healthcare for the homeless
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News
Chief exec of hospital that turned around A&E performance speaks at webinar on winter pressures
Nick Hulme spoke at HSJ webinar on winter pressures
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HSJ Interactive
Using data to improve urgent and emergency care
Ben Richardson discusses how the NHS can integrate its data to create a better demand and capacity plan across each system
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News
Chancellor: Mental health's share of NHS spend will increase
The NHS has “committed to increasing mental health funding as a share of the overall budget over the next five years”, the Treasury has said, and announced that work to achieve “parity of esteem” will be the “first stage of the NHS long-term plan”.
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News
Commissioners give struggling ambulance service £10m extra
Commissioners are to pump an extra £10m into ambulance services in the south east this financial year so national standards for responding to emergency calls can be met from the middle of 2019.
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News
Patients will suffer after NHS Improvement withholds funds says CEO
A chief executive has criticised regulators for refusing to release winter capital, after her trust said it could not meet conditions attached to the funding.
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News
CCGs battle to reduce A&E cancer diagnoses
The variation in the rates of cancers diagnosed in A&E departments across England is narrowing according to the latest data but some areas still have rates nearly double other parts of the country.
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Comment
The long term plan must break the cycle of winter crises
The coming winter is likely to be even more difficult than the last due to system wide demand/capacity gap, but the NHS long term plan offers a ray of hope to enable service transformation, says Claire Helm
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HSJ Local
New senior operations team for troubled acute trust
A trust recovering from serious problems with its accident and emergency services has appointed a new chief operating officer and medical director.
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Comment
What next for advanced clinical practice education?
If advanced practice education is to expand and evolve to meet changing population need, educators need to be able to invest in capacity, capability and staff, writes Professor Ruth Taylor
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Comment
Greater investment in training of healthcare assistants is need of the hour
Healthcare assistants are increasingly plugging the workforce gap, spending more time with patients than nurses, but receive the least amount of training, says Professor Lynne Gell
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Comment
Place children and young people at the heart of the NHS long term plan
Considering a new report stating that child health outcomes in England are poorer than its western counterparts, NHS England should develop a Children and Young People’s Health Strategy as part of its long term plan, says Professor Russell Viner
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Comment
Change won’t happen by accident
Axel Heitmueller suggests the government should develop a change model to enable transformation of health services, especially in light of the move towards integrated care
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Comment
Waiting list and waiting times rise again
A larger waiting list, more patients over 18 weeks, and rising waiting times, all fuelled by a low elective admission rate. There is little to cheer about in August’s RTT statistics.