All Emergency care articles – Page 60
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Comment
Why DToCs need to be removed from the NHS lexicon
We need to stop talking about DToCs, and focus instead on how we help every patient get to the right setting of care for their needs. By Jo Andrews
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HSJ Local
Long awaited children's service switch back in the pipeline
A long awaited move of overnight care for children with burns from Queen Victoria Hospital Foundation Trust in East Grinstead to Brighton is back on the cards.
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News
RTT, cancer and A&E waits - September 2017: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for September 2017.
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News
Subscribe to HSJ's new performance expert briefing
HSJ has launched a new fortnightly expert briefing for subscribers covering NHS performance.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Chucking the basket cases on the scrapheap
Welcome to HSJ’s new Performance Watch expert briefing. Our new fortnightly newsletter will delve into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provide unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them.
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HSJ Local
Second director leaves struggling teaching trust in seven days
The chief operating officer of a King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust has left the struggling provider, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
NHS England and NHS Improvement recruit regional 'winter director'
NHS England and NHS Improvement have appointed a joint “winter director” to oversee London’s accident and emergency performance.
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News
Stevens: Waiting list will hit 5 million by 2021 without extra money
The elective waiting list will balloon to 5 million patients by 2021 and ambitions to improve mental health and cancer care will be jeopardised unless the NHS gets a major funding boost in line with pre-2010 increases, Simon Stevens has warned.
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News
NHS Improvement reveals A&E safe staffing guidance
The latest draft safe staffing guidance from NHS Improvement has said there is no evidence for setting specific ratios of staff in urgent and emergency care settings.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: Turning up the heat on ACSs
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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News
Updated: Trust worst hit by cyberattack calls for funding clarity
Trusts need more clarity about future cybersecurity funding after the WannaCry attack, Barts Health Trust’s top digital doctor has said.
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HSJ Local
NHS England director to take over at special measures trust
An NHS England director has been appointed as the new chief executive of Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust.
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Comment
Why patients need to understand the NHS
It is high time the NHS leadership promote a new vision with enhanced patient involvement that will empower the users of the service. By Laura Fulcher
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News
Trusts under-report A&E performance figures, says regulator
The NHS’s overall accident and emergency performance data may get a “small” boost ahead of winter after it emerged some trusts are not including certain urgent care activity where the 95 per cent four hour target is largely met or bettered.
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News
'Carebnb' trust U-turns on controversial care plan
The trust involved in a controversial plan to send discharged patients to private spare rooms, under an Airbnb style model, has now said it has “no intention…to support the pilot at this time”.
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HSJ Local
New trust chief prepared to 'take a hit' on funding over winter
An acute trust is preparing for winter by reducing elective inpatient orthopaedic work for up to six months despite knowing its finances will “take a hit”, its chief executive has said.
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HSJ Local
Special measures ambulance trust posts worst ever 999 performance
The ambulance trust covering the South East Coast has seen its performance for emergency calls slump to the lowest ever recorded by any service.
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient Safety Congress joins forces with rapid response experts
HSJ’s Patient Safety Congress 2018 will join with the International Society for Rapid Response Systems to deliver a two day event to help dramatically improve patient outcomes and safety in healthcare.
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HSJ Local
Struggling teaching hospital buddied with best performing A&E
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has been buddied with Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Foundation Trust as it looks to “rapidly redesign” its emergency care service.