All Emergency care articles – Page 79
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HSJ KnowledgeBreaking the cycle: Ways to achieve A&E performance targets
This trust delivered the four hour target for first time in three years
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NewsExclusive: NICE to publish A&E staffing guidance not wanted by NHS England
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will publish recommended nurse staffing levels for accident and emergency departments despite being asked by NHS England to drop the work, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: All 111 and out of hours tenders suspended
NHS England has told commissioners to suspend all GP out of hours and NHS 111 procurements while it draws up new rules for creating ‘functionally integrated’ urgent care services, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Letters show how CCGs directed to up activity plans
Letters seen by HSJ reveal how NHS England ordered clinical commissioning groups to change their contracts with acute providers to reflect an assumption that hospital activity would grow this year.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to balance the push and pull of performance and demand
Hospital performance targets
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NewsNHS England tells regions to create urgent care networks
NHS England has said urgent and emergency care networks should be set up across the country to set and monitor standards of care and ‘designate urgent care facilities’.
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SupplementsMedicine optimisation can cut the costs of long term conditions
The most effective use of medicines
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HSJ KnowledgeMCP vanguard leaders: We will find the solutions
MCP vanguards report on their progress
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News£2bn acute deficit may mean ‘real trouble’ for frontline services
Experts have warned that patients could end up waiting longer for treatment as acute trusts try to tackle an expected overall deficit of more than £2bn this year.
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NewsNICE safe staffing decision not about money, says chief nurse
NHS England chief nursing officer Jane Cummings has said the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will continue to be used for evidence reviews on safe staffing ‘where appropriate’.
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NewsKeogh to review elective waiting time targets
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh is to review the current waiting times standards for elective care, the organisation’s chief executive Simon Stevens has announced.
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NewsEmergency care to be 'completely redesigned' within three years, says Stevens
Urgent and emergency care will undergo a “complete redesign” and be in “a very different place by the middle of this Parliament”, the NHS England chief executive has announced.
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HSJ LocalFourth largest acute trust reveals £50m deficit forecast
One of the largest teaching hospitals in England is forecasting a year-end deficit of almost £50m, HSJ has been told.
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NewsCCGs told to fund more hospital activity
NHS England expects clinical commissioning groups to fund more hospital activity than initially planned this year, prompting concerns that this could undermine non-acute services intended to reduce emergency admissions.
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HSJ LocalOccupational therapists join paramedics on some 999 calls
WORKFORCE: An ambulance service and acute trust in the North West have launched a pilot project in which occupational therapists respond to ‘low level’ 999 calls alongside paramedics.
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HSJ Knowledge
Seven day services: Gathering the data to make it happen
Ten acute trusts in the East Midlands joined forces to tackle the challenge
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NewsHunt: Peer review, not top-down targets, can improve NHS
Jeremy Hunt has praised the benefits of peer review to improve NHS standards, saying it is a better method than top-down targets.