All Emergency care articles – Page 54
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News
CCGs ordered to deploy online 111 service ahead of winter
NHS England has ordered the service to bring forward the national roll-out of NHS 111 Online, to ensure the digital triage tool is in place ahead of winter, according to CCG papers.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Cheshire and Merseyside trails on GP access
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. This week by Rebecca Thomas, who covers Cheshire, and Lawrence Dunhill, who covers Merseyside, Lancashire and Greater Manchester
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Next winter's big obsession?
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ Local
Trusts to work around major reconfiguration delay
Two acute trusts are trying to develop a shared on-call rota for vascular surgery after a long awaited reconfiguration was delayed again.
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News
Chief inspector warns NHS over ambulance handovers and corridor care
Emergency services remains a major quality and safety concern with systems not doing enough to tackle “disappointing” performance on ambulance handovers and corridor care, the chief inspector of hospitals has told HSJ.
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Comment
Community services – the glue in the system
Georgia Butterworth argues that we need to recognise and build on the massive untapped opportunities presented by strengthening community services
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News
NHS leaders face fresh criticism over misleading A&E data
Public confidence in official NHS waiting times data “continues to be undermined” because of lack of action by NHS leaders, the government’s statistics watchdog has warned.
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News
Swindells: Trusts must improve poor weekend discharge rates
NHS England will be telling hospital trusts to examine their weekend discharge rates, which are three-quarters lower than on Monday to Friday, Matthew Swindells has said.
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News
Exclusive: Waiting times targets removed from NHS England guidance
Waiting time targets for treating new and expecting mothers with serious mental health problems were scrapped and removed from new national guidance, HSJ can reveal.
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News
A&E, RTT and cancer waits - April 2018: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for April 2018.
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HSJ Local
Teaching trust declares 'black alert' after bank holiday pressures
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has been forced to declare more black alerts after facing growing demand and capacity pressures this week.
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News
Bill to protect staff from assault 'sends message' to employers, says MP
The bill to protect healthcare and emergency services workers from assault will “send a message to employers” to take incidents more seriously, one of the MPs behind it has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Trust wins £4m integrated urgent care contract
A provider and a site have been chosen for a new urgent care service in the North East, after two procurement processes and an abandoned legal challenge.
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HSJ Local
Teaching trust to outsource electives to tackle emergency demand
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust plans to outsource 4 per cent of its elective care workload to ensure it has capacity for emergency demand.
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News
Royal college backs Hunt bid to improve private sector safety
The Royal College of Surgeons has backed the health and social care secretary’s bid to improve patient safety in private sector hospitals.
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News
Exclusive: Hunt seeks 'full health and social care integration' under new 10 year plan
Jeremy Hunt has revealed his top priorities for the forthcoming “long term plan” for the NHS, and said it will represent one of the “big moments in NHS history”.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Does the NHS have an unhealthy obsession with activity?
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter delves into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provides unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them
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News
Hunt attacks private sector over safety and costs
Jeremy Hunt has accused some private sector hospitals of having “coasted” on safety, and warned they could be made to pay costs when the NHS has to take over care of their patients, in a strongly-worded intervention.
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News
Ambulance trusts demand millions to meet new targets
Ambulance trusts are seeking tens of millions of pounds in additional funding to meet new response targets and to cope with increasing demand, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Patient died waiting for treatment at hospital 'under extreme pressure'
A heart patient is believed to have died after not receiving treatment quickly enough due to a troubled hospital’s cardiac unit being used “extensively” for extra bed capacity.