All Quality and performance articles – Page 52
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News
Young people stuck in mental health services 'void', says HSIB
The long term plan for the health service must address the “void” which leaves young people with serious mental health problems unable to access support when they turn 18, according to a new report.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Organisation of the Year
Winner Central London Community Healthcare Trust: Simply the best, every time
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Comment
The essentiality of safe space
Safe space within the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch is the antidote for toxins created by poor leadership, weak governance, misguided regulation and adversarial processes like complaints and litigation. By Scott Morrish
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News
CQC appoints deputy chief inspector of hospitals
The Care Quality Commission has appointed a new deputy chief inspector of hospitals.
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News
Only one crisis team out of 180 meeting national guidance
Only one mental health crisis team in the country is meeting all the national staffing and access standards, according to a new study.
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Comment
Responding to the danger signs of CAMHS in trouble
Mental healthcare and treatment, for children and young people in particular, has historically been the ‘poor relation’ of the NHS, writes Dr Nick Wagget
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Comment
The NHS at 70: same, same but different?
Looking at a broad range of data, new health trends have emerged over the past seven decades leading to changing patient demands and fluctuating satisfaction levels with the NHS, notes Gillian Prior
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News
Behan: Ignoring staff concerns could trigger the next Mid Staffs
The next care scandal in the NHS will be caused by a failure to listen to frontline concerns raised by NHS staff, Sir David Behan has warned.
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Flagship learning difficulty programme branded a "failure"
A flagship national programme to move people with learning difficulties out of hospital has been branded a “failure” by a former minister after it emerged areas were struggling to set up specialist community services.
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HSJ Local
Managers ‘consumed by operational issues’ as trust remains in special measures
Executives at an NHS trust have told the Care Quality Commission they are ”consumed by operational issues” with the regulator recommeding it remain in special measures.
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News
Trust had 2,000 patients wait more than a year for treatment
Barts Health Trust saw 2,000 patients wait more than a year for treatment during almost four years in which it did not report waiting times Hospital trust says harm reviews are ongoing It has not released an investigation into waiting times because former employees “disputed findings” A hospital ...
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HSJ Local
Health worker arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies
A healthcare worker has been arrested by police today on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another six at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
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Comment
A new deal with the public
It’s time to revisit what people can expect from the NHS and what their obligations are in return, writes Chris Ham
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News
Waiting list probe abandoned as officials not given 'right of reply'
Probe into cause of four year waiting time problem at teaching hospital Investigation was unable to complete because trust could not finish “right of reply process” with people named in report Barts Health Trust reported waiting times for elective care this month for first time since August 2014 ...
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CCG U-turn on life-saving care to vulnerable patient after legal challenge
A clinical commissioning group has reversed a decision to pull life saving support from a vulnerable patient, after his lawyers argued the commissioner was breaching the Equality Act.
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Bed shortages causing dangerous surgery delays, report finds
Just one third of providers for a specialist surgery are meeting waiting times standards and one in 10 patients don’t receive timely emergency surgery, a new report shows.
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News
HSIB demands national implant reform in first report
A new national system of scanning prosthetic implants before they are put into patients should be created by the government, the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has said.
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Safety chief warns no reason not to act on first report
The head of the new Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has said there is no reason why national bodies cannot implement recommendations it has made in its first report.
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News
'Disregard for human life' - 450 patients killed by painkillers at hospital, report says
More than 450 patients died from prescriptions made “without medical justification” at a hospital where the use of opioids resulted in an “institutionalised practice of shortening patients’ lives”, an investigation has found.
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HSJ Partners
Using trusts' own data to identify improvement opportunities
Four Eyes Insight helps NHS trusts improve operational productivity. In this second of two articles, the company explains what it can add to trusts’ own efforts to become more productive across their clinical services and how its support for their improvement has expanded to cover a range of hospital operations.