All Emergency care articles – Page 99
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Regulator to cap Queen's Hospital A&E admissions
The Care Quality Commission is to place a restriction on the number of patients that can be treated at an east London emergency department.
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Lewisham decision sparks fresh debate on future NHS
The announcement that accident and emergency and maternity services are to be downgraded at Lewisham Hospital has sparked a fresh round of debate of the future of the NHS.
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A&E 'overstretched', says Labour
Hospital accident and emergency departments are overstretched and understaffed with patients forced to wait in ambulances just to gain admission, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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Full detail: Emergency care review seeks 'paradigm shift'
A Department of Health review of emergency and urgent care calls for a “paradigm shift” in the NHS’s approach to those services.
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Exclusive: Leaked DH report signals national A&E shakeup
National officials are considering a major reorganisation of emergency services, including designating units as either “999 emergency departments” or “111 emergency departments”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving consultations from the inside out
A service improvement project set out to better understand patient interaction
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HSJ Local
Heatherwood and Wexham Park performance slips amid rising demand
PERFORMANCE: Rising non-elective demand at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust has caused performance to slip against targets.
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Police 'helping ambulances daily'
Concerns are growing over the number of times police are stepping in to take patients to hospital instead of ambulance crews.
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PCT raises fears over Royal Berkshire A&E
PERFORMANCE: There is an extreme risk that accident and emergency performance at Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust “not sustainable”, commissioners have said.
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A&E units get that Monday morning feeling
Hospitals’ accident and emergency departments are at their busiest on Monday morning, dealing with double their average hourly attendance, research shows.
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HSJ Knowledge
The fight to transform emergency care
How one trust got emergency care performance back on track
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HSJ Knowledge
How to assess your human capital initiative
Finding the best evaluation approach to show value for money
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HSJ Local
Weston opens extra beds as emergency admissions rise
PERFORMANCE: Weston Area Health Trust has opened an additional ward to cope with increasing demand over the winter months.
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HSJ Local
Out of hours change blamed for emergency performance flop
PERFORMANCE: A sharp decline in emergency waits in Portsmouth has coincided with a new primary care out of hours contract coming into force.
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HSJ Local
Darent Valley closes to A&E admissions
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham Trust was forced to close its accident and emergency department to admissions for the first time, after running out of beds earlier this month.
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Trust found to have altered waiting times figures
A large hospital trust has been caught altering waiting time figures to avoid breaches of the four-hour accident and emergency target.
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HSJ Local
Leicestershire 999 calls up 30 per cent
The number of emergency 999 calls in Leicestershire has jumped 30 per cent in the first three weeks of December, according to the East Midlands Ambulance Service.
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier missing readmissions target
PERFORMANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust has missed its target for A&E readmissions, according to figures in the most recent set of board papers.
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HSJ Knowledge
Best of 2012: innovation in acute care
An end-of-year round-up of some of HSJ’s best practice content
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Many Britons 'do not trust GPs'
Almost two in three Britons do not have faith in their GP and 10 per cent of the public have panicked and asked accident and emergency departments to treat minor ailments, a survey has revealed.