All Surgery articles – Page 14
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NewsIn depth: Trusts respond to vascular GIRFT review
HSJ approached all the trusts that were at or beneath the threshold for one or more of the GIRFT vascular activity measures. Many gave candid descriptions of their issues and what they planned to do, or had done, about them.
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HSJ LocalLarge hospital trust cancelled 'significant number' of cancer operations
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has admitted a “significant number” of cancer operations were cancelled in early January due to winter pressure.
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NewsNHS revenues fall at private hospital firms
NHS revenues have fallen year-on-year at two large private providers, according to financial results released this week.
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NewsVascular surgery must be centralised, government report says
Getting It Right First Time report says vascular surgery services need to be centralised Large variation in access to stroke-preventing surgery Sets minimum staff and procedure numbers for surgery hubs England’s vascular surgery services are “not configured to meet clinical need” and are resulting in unnecessarily long waits ...
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NewsCQC to investigate what stops trusts preventing never events
The Care Quality Commission is to investigate the “barriers” that prevent hospitals from implementing rules designed to prevent never events.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The People's Borough turns down the Rose Red Empire
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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NewsRoyal college raises alarm over critical care beds shortage
The Royal College of Surgeons has warned there may be too few critical care beds in England to cope with demand.
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NewsYear-plus elective waiters at highest number since 2012
The number of patients waiting more than a year for an elective procedure is at its highest since August 2012, new data reveals.
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HSJ LocalCourt awards paralysed patient £4m over surgery consent blunder
A woman who was left unable to walk after an operation on her spine has been awarded £4.4m by the High Court after it found the surgeon had failed to ensure she was given informed consent.
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HSJ InteractiveWe need an evolution in how primary care works
A stronger, reinvented model of primary care will be as central to the NHS’s next 70 years as it has been for the last 70. By Michael Macdonnell
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HSJ LocalInvestigation reveals excess heart surgery deaths at teaching hospital
A major teaching hospital is still working to improve its heart surgery unit after high infection rates and a larger than expected number of deaths.
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NewsElective activity goals to add to workforce pressures
NHS trusts will come under pressure in 2018-19 to deliver a new “step change in elective activity” while keeping workforce plans “affordable” and within their ceiling for agency spending.
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NewsExclusive: NHS makes little progress cutting specialised income 'long tail'
The spread of specialised services across English hospital trusts has remained relatively unchanged over the last four years, despite a consensus that greater consolidation is needed in some areas.
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HSJ LocalConcern over patient harm investigations at teaching trust
A teaching hospital where 10 patients suffered severe harm after the trust failed to keep track of their appointments has been criticised by NHS England.
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HSJ LocalTeaching trust warns funding shortage will mean patients waiting longer
A major teaching trust has warned it may “not receive enough money” from its commissioner to stop its patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for treatment in 2018-19.
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NewsNHS could face more compensation claims after surgeon scandal
Clinicians who work across the public and private sectors could leave the NHS open to more compensation claims following the Ian Paterson scandal, the chief executive of NHS Resolution has warned.
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NewsWaiting times steady despite slowdown in admissions
Yet another large trust stopped reporting its referral to treatment data, which clouded the picture for the latest November figures and raised non-reported waiting lists to a new record.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: The congenital heart disease decision
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsTrusts allowed to cancel elective work until mid-January
NHS England has told under pressure hospitals they can cancel non-urgent elective procedures to free up beds for patients coming through accident and emergency.
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HSJ LocalMore than 23,000 patients impacted by eye appointments backlog
A teaching trust is struggling to see a massive backlog of ophthalmology patients waiting for follow up appointments.