All Patient safety articles – Page 263

  • Comment

    Clean record

    2008-02-15T17:22:46Z

    Media Watch reported that according to the Mail on Sunday, NHS North East spent £150,000 on cardboard nurses.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Tolerance of NHS mistakes needs major overhaul

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    In other industries mistakes are considered unacceptable, yet in the NHS minor errors cause thousands of extra days in hospital

  • News

    Violence increases but training in restraint techniques is still on hold

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    Urgent proposals for dealing with violent patients are still awaiting government funding 10 years after the death that sparked them.HSJ has discovered that a national training scheme for staff in acute mental health wards has been on hold for years, despite fresh evidence of increasing violent behaviour.

  • News

    Trust defends repainting to greet prince

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    Birmingham Children's Hospital foundation trust has defended using government funding to repaint hospital wards and a conservatory used by patients and visitors ahead of a royal visit.

  • Comment

    Find the funds to keep violence in check

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    Uniquely among the main care disciplines, mental health services routinely have to manage a triangle of potentially violent relationships: patients attacking staff, patients attacking each other and - when it comes to restraining aggression - staff using force on patients.

  • News

    Half of mental health nurses assaulted, audit reveals

    2008-02-13T12:00:00Z

    More than half of nurses on mental health wards have been physically assaulted at work, according to an audit of violence in mental health services published today.The audit - the second national assessment of its kind - covered more than 200 NHS and independent mental health units and was carried ...

  • News

    Trading standards to check on weighing

    2008-02-12T10:43:53Z

    From April, council trading standards officers across the UK will work with their local NHS trusts to inspect all hospital weighing equipment and make sure it is accurate, legal and fit for purpose.

  • News

    New health and social care complaints system

    2008-02-07T13:02:00Z

    Councils and the NHS are to trial a new health and social care complaints system, the DH announced today.

  • News

    'Pay for performance' could be next, says NHS medical director

    2008-02-07T09:00:00Z

    The NHS medical director has warned managers of the national clinical audit programme that they 'must deliver' or they could lose their contract.

  • News

    Bromley Hospitals trust fails cleanliness spot check

    2008-02-07T09:00:00Z

    Bromley Hospitals trust has been rapped for breaching the hygiene code after a Healthcare Commission spot check.

  • News

    Bromley hospital breached hygiene rules, say inspectors

    2008-02-06T11:54:00Z

    Bromley Hospitals trust has been issued with an improvement notice for breaching the hygiene code after a spot check by the Healthcare Commission.Inspectors found dust in wards and dirty equipment during an unannounced visit to Princess Royal University Hospital last month.

  • News

    Learn from patient safety failures, trusts urged

    2008-02-04T11:21:00Z

    Poor leadership, ineffective management and inadequate teamwork are common to failings in patient safety, the Healthcare Commission has said.A report looking at lessons from 14 investigations said the boards of failing trusts often concentrated on work such as meeting targets or mergers at the expense of other activities.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Stephen Ramsden on punitive processes

    2008-02-04T09:00:00Z

    How best can we drive up quality and safety in the NHS? The Darzi review will be important in determining the right balance between regulation and organisationally driven approaches. This is not an either/or scenario. We need both, but too much regulation will be counter-productive and demoralising to staff.

  • News

    Government accused of manipulating MRSA figures

    2008-01-31T12:52:00Z

    The government is within touching distance of hitting its MRSA target, but opposition parties have accused ministers of manipulating the data.Latest figures show there were 1,072 cases of the superbug inEnglandfrom July to September last year.

  • News

    Commission calls for power to suspend non-executives

    2008-01-31T09:00:00Z

    Chairs and non-executive directors of hospital and primary care trusts that have lost the confidence of their local communities could face suspension in future.

  • News

    Call to bar worst managers

    2008-01-31T09:00:00Z

    The leader of the UK's hospital doctors is calling for greater regulation of managers - with powers to stop them working in healthcare in extreme cases.

  • News

    MRSA cases declining

    2008-01-30T10:00:00Z

    A continued decrease in the number of MRSA infections in hospitals has been hailed as a major achievement by the Health Protection Agency.

  • News

    Welsh Assembly backs patient compensation scheme

    2008-01-25T12:31:00Z

    A Welsh Assembly committee has welcomed plans for a scheme to ensure NHS patients get compensation in cases of medical negligence.

  • News

    Anger over C difficile pay-off

    2008-01-25T11:21:00Z

    The former chief executive of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal is to get a £75,000 pay-off.Rose Gibb, who led Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will only get her 'legal entitlement' of six months' salary, the trust said yesterday.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: compensation claims

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    While Leslie Ash celebrated, columnists seethed, indignant at the £5m in compensation the actor received after contracting an infection in hospital.