All Surgery articles – Page 30
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HSJ KnowledgeHow enhanced recovery in acute trusts can improve quality and outcomes
A programme that aims to accelerate recovery after elective surgery could have wider benefits that lead to improved patient and staff outcomes, leaner practices and higher quality. Helen Scrimshire and colleagues report from Nottingham Iniversity Hospitals Trust.
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NewsWaiting targets being missed by one in three PCTs
A third of NHS trusts are breaching waiting times for treating patients - almost four times the number this time last year, figures show.
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Frimley Park positions itself to become 'major emergency centre'
STRUCTURE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust plans to have a new emergency department and day surgery unit fully operational by 2013-14.
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Frimley Park aims to save £0.5m to allow ward closure
STRUCTURE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust hopes to be able to close one of its surgical wards this year.
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Ipswich chief pledges vascular move will bring 'gold-standard care'
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of the Ipswich Hospital Trust has written a public letter explaining a vascular surgury configuration that will see services moved to Colchester General Hospital.
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NewsExclusive: Keogh warns NHS against 'blanket' treatment bans
NHS medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has warned that commissioners must not bring in “outright bans” on treatments or interventions.
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NewsHospital competition could 'negatively affect' quality
Competition between hospitals does not necessarily improve quality, new research has found.
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SHA highlights 'never events' at West Herts Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals has admitted it has had seven “never events” since October 2010, after concerns were raised by its strategic health authority.
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NewsMid Staffs to close 165 beds on road to recovery
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust is to close nearly 40 per cent of its beds as part of a recovery plan designed to tackle its growing deficit.
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News'Medical tourism' warning over government cuts
The number of patients travelling abroad for medical treatment could rise significantly due to government cuts, a new report has suggested.
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NewsCritical care is risking lives, say surgeons
Thousands of patients who need emergency surgery are having their lives put at risk by poor NHS care and delays in accessing treatment, according to a damning report.
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Comment'Healthcare history can help us transform elderly care today'
Looking back to the healthcare revolutions that helped transform practices in the past identifies the strength of ambition and passion that is needed to rescue modern day elderly care. But most importantly, it shows it is achievable, argues Mark Goldman.
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Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust judicial review to start this week
STRUCTURE: The central London specialist trust is due to start its judical review hearing in the High Court on Tuesday.
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HSJ KnowledgeIs more surgery the answer to the nation's obesity crisis?
Obesity is perhaps the biggest crisis facing the nation’s health. Effective treatments such as bariatric surgery must be used more widely, say David Haslam and Carel Le Roux.
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NewsOrgan donor plans condemned by Archbishop
Plans to introduce presumed consent for organ donation could turn “volunteers into conscripts”, the Archbishop of Wales has warned.
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First gastric bypass op at Ashford and St Peters’
PERFORMANCE: Consultant surgeon Samer Humadi and his team at Ashford and St Peter’s hospitals undertook the trust’s first ever gastric bypass operation this month.
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NNUH calls on public to help protect future of local liver surgery
STRUCTURE: The public have been invited to attend a talk about the future of liver surgery at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on 14 September.
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SE London cluster reviewing spinal surgery at Lewisham Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners in south east London are reviewing the future of the spinal surgery services at Lewisham Healthcare Trust
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18 week target remains a 'challenge' in North Staffs
PERFORMANCE: The main “performance challenge” of the North Staffordshire PCT trust remains the achievement of the 18 week referral to treatment target for inpatient and day case surgery.
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Trust plans to realise mortuary income potential
FINANCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust is planning to boost income from its mortuary, its fertility service and through treating more private patients.