All articles by Shaun Lintern – Page 51
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Crisp: Mental health beds shortage actually a discharge crisis
A perceived crisis in the availability of mental health beds is actually caused by delayed patient discharges, according to an inquiry chaired by Lord Crisp.
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Exclusive: Midlands trusts to create £1bn turnover alliance
Three West Midlands hospital trusts are to create an alliance with a combined turnover of almost £1bn and a catchment population of more than 1 million, HSJ can reveal.
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Exclusive: Providers expected to use unofficial NICE staffing guidance
NHS providers may have to increase the number of nurses in emergency departments after regulators and the Department of Health suggested trusts need to consider new safe staffing evidence from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
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Exclusive: NICE to publish A&E staffing guidance not wanted by NHS England
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will publish recommended nurse staffing levels for accident and emergency departments despite being asked by NHS England to drop the work, HSJ can reveal.
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Budget: Four more years of public sector pay restraint
Chancellor George Osborne has announced four further years of public sector pay restraint, in a surprise move as part of today’s summer Budget.
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Exclusive: Plan to combine regulators and safety in single 'new body'
Many of the functions of Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are expected to be brought together in a single ‘new body’, which would also take on new patient safety and improvement work, HSJ has been told.
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NICE director: NHS England 'didn't like answer' on safe staffing
A senior figure at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has suggested NHS England scrapped its work on safe staffing guidance because it ‘didn’t like the answer to the question’.
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Concerns NHS England safe staffing guide for mental health 'lacks rigour'
Experts have criticised NHS England’s latest safe staffing guidance on mental health inpatient care, raising concerns that the model used ‘lacks rigour’.
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Exclusive: 'Candour' law may change after legal threat
The government is considering changing the duty of candour law just three months after it came into effect, following a threat of judicial review by a patient charity, HSJ can reveal.
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Call for student nurses to lose taxpayer grant funding
Academics have called for an ‘urgent’ overhaul of the funding system for training nurses and midwives.
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HEE to deliver 23,000 new nurses by 2019
More than 23,000 extra nurses will be trained over the next four years to help meet growing demand in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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More than 60 managers have faced fit and proper complaints
A total of 65 NHS chief executives and senior board directors have been subject to complaints under fit and proper person regulations, HSJ can reveal.
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Exclusive: NHS warned focus on finance risks 'disastrous consequence'
The chair of the inquiry into care failings at Morecambe Bay has warned of a “disastrous consequence” for the NHS if it focuses too much on financial savings at the expense of patient safety.
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Exclusive: Leaked NHS England study links nursing numbers and care quality
A leaked NHS England study has revealed a significant relationship between the number of nurses on duty in hospitals and 40 indicators of patient care and outcomes.
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Give AHPs more powers to unlock new care models, says NHS England official
Plans to give allied health professionals the ability to prescribe medicines without the input of a doctor will help the NHS develop new models of care, an NHS England official has said.
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Barts medical director resigns
The medical director at Barts Health Trust has become the latest executive director to leave the trust, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: Special measures trust faces group legal action by patients
A trust in special measures is facing collective legal action from more than a dozen patients and families. It comes amid allegations of systemic failure which contributed to poor care, HSJ has learned.
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Revealed: NICE safe staffing work cost £1m
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence spent nearly £1m on its work to develop nurse safe staffing guidelines for the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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NICE safe staffing decision not about money, says chief nurse
NHS England chief nursing officer Jane Cummings has said the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will continue to be used for evidence reviews on safe staffing ‘where appropriate’.
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Trust chief speaks out over commissioning 'disaster'
COMMISSIONING: The chief executive of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has urged the NHS to learn from the commissioning mistakes which led to the collapse of the trust’s dermatology service.