All Patient safety articles – Page 42
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NewsExclusive: Private provider’s contract suspended pending safety review
An independent provider’s NHS contract has been suspended, and a harm review is to be carried out on patients who have faced a long wait.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The domino effect
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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NewsDecision to end shielding for 2 million at ‘high risk’ confirmed
The government has confirmed the “shielding” programme for 2 million people at high risk from coronavirus will finish at the end of July, as revealed by HSJ last week.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England considers ‘mandated’ system-level waiting lists
NHS trusts could be asked to create shared waiting lists for elective care under plans being considered by national leaders.
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Expert BriefingVulnerable patients are forced to choose between their lives and income
On Monday HSJ revealed the government is planning to end the shielding programme for over two million ‘extremely clinically vulnerable’ people next month. The decision has highlighted many of the problems the programme has been faced with from the start.
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News‘Independent review of NHS’ ahead of second wave
There should be independent reviews of the NHS’ readiness for a potential second major outbreak of coronavirus in the UK, senior doctors are arguing.
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NewsExclusive: Shielding programme for two million high risk patients to be dropped
The government is set to cease its ‘shielding’ programme for those at highest risk from coronavirus at the end of July, HSJ has learned.
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NewsA&E leader: All departments should be ‘call before you walk’
A ‘call before you walk’ system to prevent overcrowding and the spread of covid-19 in emergency departments should be implemented alongside a ‘beefed up’ NHS 111 service, a senior figure has said.
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NewsRich-list biotech entrepreneur got £25m PPE contract
Details have emerged of what appears to be one of the largest contracts for personal protective equipment awarded during the height of the coronavirus outbreak.
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NewsGovernment spent at least £5m on drug championed by Trump
The Department for Health and Social Care paid at least £3.15m on a bulk order of hydroxychloroquine tablets in April for clinical trials, after reportedly spending £2m on the drug in March.
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NewsNew shortage of protective masks as supply 'goes off a cliff'
Approximately a third of acute trusts are running low on crucial protective masks going into the weekend, sources have told HSJ.
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NewsCovid-19 tests ‘must have purpose,’ says pathology chief
Covid-19 testing must be done for a purpose and is not merely something that should be counted, according to the head of the Royal College of Pathologists.
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CommentWaiting times rising by one week, every week
Rob Findlay’s insights over rising waiting times in April reveals over a million patients waiting longer than 18 weeks and 11,000 waiting longer than a year.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Back to normal is not good enough
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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NewsSerious covid-linked condition in children ‘now in decline’
A serious coronavirus-linked illness which put up to 100 children in intensive care now appears to be in decline as the number of covid-19 cases also falls, HSJ has been told.
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NewsRevealed: Government spent more than £200m on Nightingale hospitals
The government has spent more than £200m on setting up and running England’s Nightingale temporary hospitals, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrusts handed new rules to ‘minimise’ contacts between staff
NHS organisations have been told to ‘minimise’ close contacts between staff – including restricting the number of staff on ward rounds – to lessen covid-19 infections in healthcare settings.
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NewsExclusive: Senior doctors warned of service failings before 12 deaths
Senior doctors repeatedly raised concerns over safety and staffing problems at a mental health trust before a cluster of 12 deaths, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsUndiagnosed covid suspected of causing 'staggering' increase in dementia deaths
The number of deaths from dementia and Alzheimer’s increased by more than 50 per cent during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, new stats have shown.
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News‘Primary’ PPE portal relegated to ‘emergency top-up route’
A government portal to supply personal protective equipment to primary and social care providers has now been branded as “emergency only” - despite originally being intended to fill “the bulk” of demand.