All News articles – Page 1782
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Home bounties
News: The South East may be affluent, but its bed-blocking problems are so severe that they are jeopardising service delivery across the region. Alison Moore meets the man charged with arguing a difficult case
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Blockbusters
News: Trolley waits and bed blocking are two of the most intractable problems to hit trusts. Laura Donnelly asks whether theories of demand management can offer hope to trusts in no-star hell
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Night blindness
An evening visit to casualty was an eye-opener for Dr Dilys Jones, who feels it is time for managers to start listening to their frontline staff
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Blanket coverage
News: When senior social services managers and councillors met at the ADSS social services conference in Harrogate, bed-blocking was the topic of the day. Tash Shifrin was there
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Bed-blocking: views from the conference
News: The scale of the problem in 'hot spot' Birmingham, where about 350 people are waiting for discharge from hospital, has hit the headlines repeatedly.
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Back to basics
comment: IT and nurse practitioners can play a key role in getting trolley waits down
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Investigation launched after elderly deaths
An investigation into the care of elderly people at Gosport War Memorial Hospital has been launched by the Commission for Health Improvement following the deaths of two patients in 1998.