All Patient safety articles – Page 172
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HSJ Local
Surgicentre taken over by NHS following safety concerns
A privately-run surgical centre is to be taken over by the NHS following repeated complaints about patient safety.
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NewsUPDATED: How HSJ has covered the NHS 111 rollout debacle
A round-up of HSJ’s comprehensive coverage of the problematic NHS 111 rollout, from its announcement in 2010 to the most recent developments
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NewsDorrell: CQC failed on 'independence of action'
The chairman of the Commons health committee has revealed his concerns over the relationship between the Care Quality Commission and the parliamentary health service ombudsman.
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NewsFirst national friends and family test scores due
A new test designed to shine the spotlight on poor care has found some “shocking and eye opening” cases of maltreatment in NHS hospitals, reports suggest.
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NewsFewer inquests held for women than men
Doctors are less likely to report the death of a woman to a coroner than they are a man’s, a study has found.
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News'Failings' in NHS 111 hotline
A new 24-hour health hotline is failing patients, according to an undercover television investigation.
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NewsMid Staffs A&E sisters struck off by NMC
Two former accident and emergency nurses who altered patient discharge times to meet waiting time targets at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been struck off the nursing register.
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HSJ Local
Plymouth Hospitals calls in consultants amid financial woe
FINANCE: KPMG has been drafted in by managers at Plymouth Hospitals Trust to help draw up a three-year plan to tackle a multi-million pound deficit.
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NewsCall for Welsh healthcare probe rejected
The Welsh government has rejected calls for an inquiry into NHS care standards and death rates.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe impact of EU data regulations on the NHS
New rules will affect the handling of patient data
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NewsTrusts seek thousands of frontline staff in 'short-term fix'
Foundation trusts aim to spend £500m recruiting 10,000 additional frontline clinical staff this year as a short term fix before cutting the workforce by almost 30,000 in the following two years, their latest plans show.
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HSJ Local
Medical director leaves Plymouth Hospitals Trust
WORKFORCE: Plymouth Hospitals Trust medical director Alex Mayor is leaving the trust to take up a role with the South West Academic Health Science Network, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMid Staffs cases set to resume at NMC today
A fitness to practise case against a former chief nurse at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has resumed today.
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NewsCrisp calls for patients to receive 'more power'
Patients should be given greater power over their care, including the ability to own their medical records and representation at every level of NHS management, Sir David Nicholson’s predecessor has said.
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HSJ LocalMid Staffs survey reveals claims of continuing poor care
Some patients at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust are continuing to suffer poor care more than four years after widespread failures at the trust first emerged.
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NewsNHS emergency care 'unsustainable'
NHS emergency care is “unsustainable”, leading doctors have said.
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NewsExclusive: GMC reveals 16 A&Es with concerns
HSJ can reveal the names of 16 emergency departments about which the General Medical Council has current significant concerns.
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News
Exclusive: Trainee doctors to be withdrawn from DGH
Trainee doctors are to be withdrawn from the paediatrics department of a district general hospital, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Leicester Hospitals publishes survey results online
PERFORMANCE: Friends and family ratings for every ward at the University Hospitals of Leicester Trust will now be published on the trust website.
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Blogs
'Special measures' are a stick to beat trusts with
In my experience, trying to get out of special measures is the start of reducing the quality of services