All Patient safety articles – Page 155
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Comment
Patients, not politics: don't let talk distract from providing local care
Sustainability is key
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News
Test could create blacklist for 'unfit' NHS directors, lawyers warn
The fit and proper person test for healthcare directors could lead to the creation of an ‘informal blacklist’ of senior managers and put regulators at risk of legal challenge, senior lawyers have warned.
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News
Webinar: using data to improve outcomes and performance
Watch our webinar on how timely data can help managers and clinicians
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HSJ Knowledge
How turning around Northampton Hospital's failures inspired belief in a brighter future
How one failing trust’s turnaround has been sparked by some outside help
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Comment
Ageing population puts pressure on healthcare's legal landscape
There is a temptation to “practise defensively”
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HSJ Knowledge
Residential care means more than a chair to sit in
Consider occupation when commissioning for quality of life in homes
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HSJ Local
Manchester trust calls for suspension of Healthier Together consultation
STRUCTURE: A teaching hospital, whose services are threatened by a major shake up of acute care in Greater Manchester, has called for a ‘flawed’ consultation on the plan to be suspended.
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News
Hunt dismisses Keogh trusts' finance struggles
Lack of money is no excuse for poor care, the health secretary has said
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News
Unions ballot members for strike action over NHS pay
Three health unions have announced they are going to ballot their members for strike action over NHS pay.
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Comment
Michael White: Compassion requires us to sort out assisted dying law
There was a thoughtful, moving debate in the Lords
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News
Drop in bans on hospital and care home workers
The Labour Party has voiced concern about a sharp drop in the numbers of people being barred from working with vulnerable adults in care homes and hospitals.
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News
Friends and family test changes announced
NHS England is to change how the friends and family test is implemented and presented after a major review concluded it cannot be used as a “single measure” for the quality of care across the health service as originally intended.
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HSJ Local
Delay to Mid Staffs dissolution could be 'disastrous', administrators warn
STRUCTURE: Failure to secure changes to services at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust before winter could be “potentially disastrous” for the local health economy, the trust’s special administrators have claimed.
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News
Duty of candour extended to cover wider set of incidents
A statutory duty of candour in the NHS will cover a wider set of incidents than previously expected, and will force NHS trusts to apologise to affected patients, it has emerged.
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Supplements
Patient Safety and Care Awards winners 2014
Celebrating the best practice in patient safety and care
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Leader
The UK needs to be attractive to overseas health staff
Having enough people is crucial to high quality care
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HSJ Local
Moorfields misreported waiting times performance for five years
PERFORMANCE: Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has been misreporting waiting times for treatment at its sites across London for years, with hundreds of patients waiting longer than recorded, the trust discovered.
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News
Exclusive: Majority of hospital trusts missed their own nurse staffing targets
More than three-quarters of acute NHS providers have missed their own targets for the number of hours worked at their hospitals by registered nurses, HSJ analysis has revealed
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News
Three Keogh trusts must stay in special measures, CQC decides
Three acute trusts placed in special measures a year ago have failed to make significant progress and should remain in special measures, the chief inspector of hospitals has said
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HSJ Knowledge
From board to ward: How patients' stories can spur on change
Patient involvement motivates staff