All Patient safety articles – Page 102
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Expert Briefing
Lintern's Risk Register: Noise about NHS pay masks deeper problems
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern
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HSJ Local
Another trust warns A&E could close overnight
The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford could be forced to “temporarily” shut its accident and emergency department overnight because of staffing shortages, the trust’s chief operating officer has warned.
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News
Royal colleges urge trusts to act on maternity safety
NHS trusts providing maternity services should ensure midwives and obstetricians train together and practice how to read foetal heart rates, medical royal colleges have said.
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News
Exclusive: NHS England delay 'denies patients access to life saving treatment'
Patients are being denied access to heart treatments that could prevent strokes or save lives after an NHS England project was delayed, a charity has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Child suffers 'severe harm' as a result of trust's data problems
Two more patients, including a child, came to ‘severe harm’ as a result of a teaching trust losing track of their records.
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News
CQC: More trusts to face prosecution for safety breaches
More NHS trusts could face criminal prosecution for breaches of fundamental safety standards to act as a “deterrent”, the Care Quality Commission’s outgoing chief inspector of hospitals has warned.
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HSJ Local
Trust to build new labs after 'catastrophic failure' warning
A regional vascular centre has revealed patients were put in danger when its aging imaging equipment failed mid-procedure.
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HSJ Local
Special measures trust to centralise services due to 'immediate' safety concerns
A special measures trust is to centralise urology and ear, nose and throat services because of “immediate workforce safety concerns”.
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News
Lord Darzi weighs in to 'utterly astonishing' specialist trust row
Professor Lord Ara Darzi has weighed into the row over the future of specialist services in England.
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HSJ Local
Seventh maternal death at scandal hit trust
A seventh maternal death has been reported at a London trust previously criticised for a series of deaths linked to its maternity services.
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News
'Too much poor care' in mental health providers
The Care Quality Commission is to “strengthen” its policy on using restraint in mental health services following a new report into the sector’s performance.
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News
Interview: Trust chiefs must be supported to change NHS culture
NHS regulators must do more to enable trust leaders to try and improve culture in their organisations, a leading expert on system safety and “just culture” has said.
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HSJ Local
Trust sees improvements after launching 'just culture' movement
An NHS mental health trust has seen improvements in the amount of disciplinary action and assaults on staff after developing a “just culture” approach to investigating incidents.
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HSJ Local
Manslaughter charge for man who started hospital fire
Police have charged a 39 year old man who started a fire at an NHS hospital with manslaughter after the death of an elderly patient.
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HSJ Local
First NHS inpatient unit fails fire safety tests
A specialist cardiac centre has become the first NHS inpatient unit to fail fire safety tests carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
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News
Trusts with high litigation costs to come under the spotlight
NHS litigation costs are to be scrutinised by a national programme to save millions in clinical negligence pay outs and improve patient care, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Trust employee arrested on suspicion of tampering with saline bags
Police have arrested an employee of an acute hospital trust on suspicion of tampering with saline bags.
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News
More trusts fail cladding fire safety tests
Two more hospital trusts have now failed cladding fire safety tests carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
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News
Care to help patients with breathing difficulties 'often poor'
Four out of five patients who need help to breathe in NHS hospitals receive less than good care, a major study published today has found.
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HSJ Local
'Complete lack of medical leadership' at intensive care unit
A “complete lack of medical leadership”, low consultant staffing levels, “inadequate clinical governance” and poor culture are among key findings in a damning peer review into a south London intensive care unit.