All Specialist care articles – Page 5
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Acute or Specialist Services Redesign (London and the South)
Imperial College Healthcare Trust – Connecting Care for Children When staff at Imperial College Healthcare Trust invited feedback on services for children, they were given a valuable summary of the issues from the patient and carer perspective. “My health visitor told me to do one thing and the hospital told ...
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HSJ LocalTrust in £100,000 court battle over alleged trademark breach
A mental health trust has been taken to court after being accused of breaching a trademark over its name for a specialist service.
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NewsRegulators 'refuse to back' research investment at deficit trust
A London teaching hospital has found itself unable to “secure regulator support” for a new research institute because of its financial problems, a board report reveals.
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CommentHow the system can make the most of the unique role of specialist hospitals
The highest potential of specialist hospitals can be utilised with the help of international benchmarking, linking into regional agencies and enhancing the role of national bodies. By Liz Mear and Dr Charlie Davie
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NewsExclusive: 20 trusts face financial loss from new national efficiency scheme
Around 20 NHS trusts face losing money in 2019-20 from a new procurement model which sees cash withheld from organisations in exchange for savings through centralised procurement.
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HSJ InteractiveAn HSJ and Edwards Supplement: Heart Valve Disease
This HSJ supplement looks at where we are with heart valve disease today, the challenges of the future and how we can meet them.
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CommentAddress NHS clinicians’ underestimation of social care
Existing disparity between NHS clinicians and social care workers must hit equilibrium to achieve better care outcomes. By Allyson Kay
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CommentBigger step-change is need of the hour for children's mental health
It will take vision, hard work, political bravery, and realistic investment to make progress amidst children’s mental health crisis, writes Sean Duggan
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NewsMajor review of clinical services after trust mega merger
One of the largest hospital trusts in the country is carrying out a major clinical services review that could lead to the centralisation of more than a dozen services.
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NewsExclusive: Fix ‘dark force’ surgical unit or lose it, leaked review tells trust
An independent review has challenged the leadership of a teaching hospital to make immediate changes to its cardiac surgical team or face losing the service altogether.
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NewsGovernment plans to stockpile drugs in preparation for no-deal Brexit
The government is planning to stockpile drugs for a no-deal Brexit, the health secretary has announced.
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CommentWhy investing in a resilient generation is the NHS's business
Investment in improving access to children and adolescent mental health services and tackling its causes through a prevention first approach is the need of the hour, says Paul Burstow
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CommentResponding 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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CommentThe 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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NewsBed 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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NewsMajor teaching trust announces new chief executive
A major teaching hospital has recruited a former pharmacist as its new chief executive.
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NewsNHS England scraps 'gold standard' quality requirements
A system of “gold standard” quality requirements for specialised services has effectively been scrapped by NHS England, in favour of a broader set of indicators.
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CommentYour RTT profiles for 2018-19
Need a forecast of you RTT profiles for 2018-19? Look no further.
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CommentWaiting times blow out to 22 weeks as elective admissions falter
Waiting times rose again, and the longest waits were hardest hit. Continued, severe and widespread capacity pressures are the likely culprit. By Rob Findlay
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HSJ Local'Severe harm' to patients caught up in huge x-rays backlog
Three patients suffered severe harm because their chest x-rays were among tens of thousands of tests not reviewed properly at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust.