All Patient safety articles – Page 265
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Comment
David Peat on turning health policy into action
One of the eternal dilemmas for a chief executive is to translate the words of policy documents into meaningful action on the front line
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News
Infection control gets £54m boost in Scotland
The Scottish government is to spend £54m on tackling healthcare-associated infections over the next three years.The measures include establishing a national MRSA screening programme and monitoring hand hygiene compliance.
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HSJ Knowledge
Informed consent - can trusts ever meet the legal standard?
Despite clearer guidance on informed consent, trusts should take precautions to protect themselves from litigation in the event of misunderstandings. Frank Burns explains
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News
EU law opens safety loophole for foreign workers
A new European law could undermine patient safety by allowing foreign health professionals to work in the UK with minimal checks, clinical representatives have warned.
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Comment
Sophie Christie on the holy grail of NHS policy
NHS policy seems populated by some remarkably persistent ideas that pop up every decade or so
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News
Night-time trauma care gets damning verdict
Managers should improve job planning to limit a huge drop in the quality of trauma care at night.
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News
MP attacks SHA over pay-off to disgraced Maidstone chief
The government has come under renewed pressure over the Clostridium difficile outbreak at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
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News
Hospitals fail to assess risks of blood clots
More than 10,000 hospital patients died last year from blood clots because the NHS has failed to implement recommendations on deep vein thrombosis, say MPs.
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Comment
Patient safety action teams - putting safety first
Patient safety action teams are now helping make safety part of the mainstream NHS in all 10 strategic health authorities. Martin Fletcher explains their work
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Comment
Over-analysis risks crushing staff motivation
I thoroughly endorse Stephen Ramsden's transformational approach to patient safety. However, I believe we could go even further by saying this is exactly what is missing in many other aspects of patient services and, indeed, more generally across the public sector, writes Sue Ward
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News
£57.5m earmarked for deep cleaning
Strategic health authorities have together allocated £57.5m to support the government's 'deep clean' drive.In a statement to the House of Commons on 21 November, health secretary Alan Johnson said all NHS hospital trusts should aim to complete their deep cleans by the end of March 2008.
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News
10,700 deaths blamed on DVT failures
An all-party parliamentary report has found that more than 10,700 hospital patients may have died as a result of trusts' failure to implement key recommendations on deep vein thrombosis published over seven months ago.
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HSJ Knowledge
New generation of equality in perinatal care
Infant death and women's health are marked by inequality but outreach workers are now changing prospects, reports Caroline White
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News
Papworth transplants given green light
The Healthcare Commission said at 1pm today that Papworth Hospital foundation trust could resume heart transplants after the trust agreed to implement additional measures to protect patients.
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News
Circular sets out appropriate blood use
A circular on blood transfusions has been published. It includes information on transfusion safety and effectiveness and avoiding unnecessary use of blood components.
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Comment
Stephen Ramsden on the transformational approach to patient safety
To make real strides in patient safety, we must win the hearts and minds of NHS staff and patients, mobilising them to be drivers of change
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News
MP demands severance deal figure
A Conservative MP is demanding the Department of Health discloses the severance settlement paid last month to Mark Rees, the former chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals trust.
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News
Infection control: C difficile measures improve at Stoke Mandeville
Buckinghamshire Hospitals trust has made 'significant progress' on infection control a year on from a Clostridium difficile outbreak that killed 33 people, says the Healthcare Commission. But the regulator highlighted doctors' poor hand hygiene as a serious concern in a follow-up report published today.
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News
All non-executives resign from infection-hit Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
All the non-executives of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal have left.