All Patient safety articles – Page 34
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NewsDoctors use pandemic as excuse not to offer effective pain relief claim campaigners
Women are undergoing ‘painful and distressing’ diagnostic tests as doctors use the covid-19 pandemic as an excuse not to offer them their choice of pain relief, HSJ has been told.
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CommentThe NHS is failing to explain the impact of covid on healthcare access
Do the public fully understand the impact of rising covid-19 infections on their access to healthcare services, asks David Rowland
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NewsGovernment finally accepts need for ‘independent’ national patient safety commissioner
The government has accepted the need for a new ‘patient safety commissioner’, according to the author of a safety review commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care.
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HSJ LocalMajor trust diverts ambulances and cancels electives after covid surge
One of England’s largest hospital trusts has been forced to divert ambulances and cancel operations, after seeing a very steep increase in covid-19 admissions over the past week.
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NewsTrusts told to make immediate improvements after maternity scandal report
NHS England has ordered trusts to make immediate improvements to maternity safety following the publication of the report into the Shrewsbury and Telford maternity scandal.
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CommentGovernment must stop household mixing this Christmas: a joint call by The BMJ and HSJ
Since the UK’s first lockdown in March, the government has had one (perhaps only one) consistent message — protect the NHS, write Alastair McLellan of HSJ and Fiona Godlee of The BMJ.
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NewsExclusive: CQC to ramp up inspections of trusts’ infection control
Trusts’ infection control measures will be put under greater scrutiny by the Care Quality Commission, HSJ has been told.
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NewsHospital acquired covid infections hit record high
The number of covid-19 infections likely to have been acquired in hospital are rising again for the first time in three weeks and their proportion of all cases has reached record levels for the second wave, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrusts should have 'oversight' of neighbouring providers, says damning safety review
A report into 250 cases of poor maternity care at a scandal hit trust has found ‘a lack of kindness and compassion’ from midwifery staff.
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Exclusive: NHS and care home staff may miss covid-19 vaccine because of tech oversight
NHS and care home staff may be wrongfully excluded from the covid-19 vaccination programme because of an IT oversight, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Huge covid death rate among vulnerable patients who have to travel to hospital
Dialysis patients who must travel to hospital are nearly four times as likely to die of covid than those aged over 80, but so far have not been prioritised for receiving vaccination, HSJ has learned.