All Patient safety articles – Page 20
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NewsCEOs and chairs blamed for care failings which led to death of over 40 babies
A series of chairs and chief executives at an acute trust were ‘wrong’ to believe the organisation was providing acceptable care over an 11-year period and should be held accountable for one of NHS’s largest maternity care scandals, an inquiry concluded today.
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NewsFormer trust CEO and medical director cleared over surgery scandal
A major trust’s former chief executive and medical director have been cleared, after being accused of failing to protect breast patients from a rogue surgeon.
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NewsParamedics in ‘Mexican standoff’ with A&E staff after ‘unprecedented’ rule change
Angry exchanges between paramedics and A&E staff in Liverpool have broken out after new measures were deployed to hold and treat patients in the back of ambulances.
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NewsTrusts need hundreds of millions to stop hospitals’ roofs collapsing
Trusts need hundreds of millions of pounds to remediate dangerous roofs.
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HSJ Local‘Obfuscations and failures’ in trust’s handling of death, damning review finds
There were ’obfuscations, difficulties and failures’ in a scandal-hit trust’s handling of a baby’s death, a damning review has found, although it cleared the organisation’s former chair of ’serious mismanagement’.
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NewsUpdated: IT failure disrupts patient care ‘at number of trusts’
An IT failure left clinicians at ‘a number of trusts’ which use the Cerner Millennium system unable to access patient records on Tuesday but was fixed overnight.
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NewsVulnerable patients injured by 'inadequate' service
A troubled trust’s inpatient wards for people with a learning disability or autism have been rated “inadequate”, with staff criticised for resorting to restraint too readily which sometimes injured patients.
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HSJ LocalHospital merger confusion blamed for cancer deaths
A ‘leading’ cancer service has reported a series of safety incidents which contributed to patients being severely harmed or dying, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: New hospitals could be required to have single patient rooms only
New hospitals may be required to have single patient rooms only, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHospital’s ‘consistently high’ mortality rate under investigation
NHS England and local system leaders are looking into “consistently high” mortality rates over the last two years at an acute hospital after previous reviews failed to find an explanation, an integrated care board meeting was told this week.
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News‘Terrorist activity’ concerns trump patient confidentiality, NHS staff told
Health professionals should not let fears about sharing personal data “stand in the way” of reporting patients at risk of “being groomed into terrorist activity”, new government guidance has stressed.
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NewsCQC triggers two reviews into whistleblowing concerns
The Care Quality Commission has commissioned an independent review into handling of a high-profile whistleblower case, and a wider internal review of how it responds when it is given “information of concern”.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The Truss regime is forgetting mental health
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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NewsBig expansion of nurse and doctor training planned by Labour
Labour would use revenue from reversal of the abolition of the 45 per cent rate of income tax to fund “one of the largest NHS workforce expansions in history,” the shadow chancellor has announced.
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CommentThe cost of living crisis is a health emergency too
Author David Finch highlights the relationship between the increasing costs of living and deteriorating public health in the UK – and the action that the government could take.
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CommentBetter access to rehabilitation can mitigate health inequality
Addressing inadequate rehabilitation services and disparities in healthy life expectancy is long overdue, and ensuring access may just prevent further entrenching inequities. By Natasha Owusu and Rachel Newton
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NewsHospital rated ‘inadequate’ after death prompts inspection
A private hospital has been rated ‘inadequate’ by a health watchdog following an inspection prompted by a young patient’s preventable death.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Paying the consultants
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsNew CEO for trust beset by national controversy
One of the country’s most high-profile mental health trusts has appointed its new chief executive, four months after its existing CEO announced he was retiring.
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HSJ LocalCity braced for ‘Winterbourne View’-level scandal
Police are braced to investigate a ‘Winterbourne View’-level scandal in Greater Manchester, with a TV documentary expected to include allegations of serious patient abuse.