All Quality and performance articles – Page 80
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient Safety Awards 2016: Patient Safety in Care of Older People
Patient safety in care of older peoplePatient Safety Awards 2016, Patient Safety in Care of Older People winner: North East London Foundation Trust Ridouts logo Sponsored by Ridouts Winner: North East London Foundation Trust The winning quality improvement project focused on enhancing ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient Safety Awards 2016: Preventing avoidable harm
Preventing avoidable harmPatient Safety Awards 2016, Preventing avoidable harm winner: Lancashire County Council Ahsn network Sponsored by The AHSN Network Winner: Lancashire County Council Falls prevention is a significant public health concern. This project, funded by Lancashire CC and developed by East Lancashire ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient Safety Awards 2016: Procurement - Patient Safety
The winner sought to standardise procurement and to improve outcomes for patients who can be harmed by ill-fitting or poor quality garments
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News
New Oxford Hospitals chief reveals delayed transfers turnaround
The chief executive of one of England’s top teaching hospitals has set out how it halved its stubbornly high rate of delayed transfers, after introducing a set of reforms including directly employing social care workers. Bruno Holthof, who joined Oxford University Hospitals in October, also set out his vision for ...
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Supplements
Clouds, silver linings and Storm Desmond
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay had been prepared for emergencies but Storm Desmond tested the organisation to its limits
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Supplements
Let patient experience take centre stage
Much needs to be done to bring patient experience to the forefront of the agenda
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Supplements
Time to nurture better mental healthcare services
More government funding promised to increase specialist mental healthcare for mothers in the perinatal period is just part of the action required
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Comment
Understanding Scotland's review of NHS targets
Getting the elective targets right is important, but balancing activity against demand matters more
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Comment
Understanding discrepancies when tracking long-waiters against plan
To answer how many patients are expected to breach the target every week, you need to understand how patients are being scheduled
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Expert Briefing
Lintern’s Risk Register: Reducing workforce while demand is rising is unsafe
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern
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HSJ Local
NMC probe midwife sacked after new Morecambe Bay death
Midwife linked to death of Joshua Titcombe in 2008 dismissed after new death Trust disciplinary hearing concluded her “conduct fell fundamentally below acceptable standards” Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise hearing expected to reconvene next week PATIENT SAFETY: A midwife due to face a Nursing and Midwifery ...
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News
Private health boss accuses NHS of 'delusion'
The chief executive of England’s biggest private hospital group has said the NHS is in a similar position to the British car industry before its collapse.
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient nutrition: Hungry for change
No one doubts the importance of nutrition in maintaining health and tackling long term conditions but its low priority in the NHS means access is patchy at best. Claire Read asks why this is and what can be done to raise its profile
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Leader
We have the best ever view of quality in hospitals – so what’s next?
The NHS now has unprecedented information about care quality in hospitals, so what will it do with it?
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News
Specialist trusts score highest across patient experience survey
HSJ analysis identifies the trusts with the best overall performance in patient experience survey Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital had the best results No hospitals with an A&E department made the top 10 Patients have said Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital Foundation Trust provides the best patient experience ...
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News
Survey analysis: Trusts scoring worst across patient experience survey
Analysis identifies the trusts which had the worst scores in patient experience survey Croydon Health Services Trust performed the worst across the most sections in the survey Medway performed second worst and remains in special measures HSJ analysis has identified the trusts which saw the worst results across ...
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News
Analysis: The 10 trusts with most improved patient experience
HSJ analysis shows the trusts where patient experience improved in the most areas of the national inpatient experience survey year on year Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust came top of in list of most improved trusts Top two most improved trusts both in special measures HSJ analysis has identified ...
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Expert Briefing
Deep South: The state of care in the South West
Weekly updates and essential insight into the NHS in the South West, by Will Hazell
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Comment
Seven-day services for emergency care can increase efficiency
How seven-day emergency care services can reap benefits in the long run.
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News
Exclusive: Babies 'dying unnecessarily' due to flawed funding system
Flawed system for funding fetal medicine leading to “morbidity and mortality” among women and babies, doctors warn London units have identified multiple cases of “avoidable harm” because of change in referral patterns Specialist units losing money as less than 10 per cent of bills for referrals being paid ...