All Surgery articles – Page 33
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NewsLeading doctors call for heart treatment policy changes
Some of Scotland’s top heart doctors are calling for a policy change on the alternative treatment offered to patients considered too high-risk for open-heart surgery.
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NewsClinician led changes to surgery 'could save NHS £40m'
The NHS could save more than £40m a year by making simple changes to the way patients are prepared for surgery and helped to recover, according to the Department of Health.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe key steps to delivering excellence in emergency surgery
New guidelines are helping organisations to ensure that most vital of services, emergency surgery, is up to standard. Richard Collins explains.
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Great Ormond Street bowel unit to ease child surgery
STRUCTURE: Sick children will be spared unnecessary surgery as a result of a new initiative which will also save the health service money.
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New software gives UHB access to data from other trusts
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has implemented new software providing secure access to patient data from neighbouring trusts.
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NewsLung cancer audit shows huge variations between trusts
An audit of lung cancer care has found wide regional variation in the number of patients receiving treatment.
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NewsLocum surgeons 'not appropriately qualified'
Some locum surgeons are working beyond their expertise and are not eligible to be called consultants, the Royal College of Surgeons has said.
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North Tees and Hartlepool launches hip replacement recall
PERFORMANCE: On 9 May the foundation trust began a recall of patients who have had metal-on-metal total hip replacement.
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Neuro waits remain issue for NHS Brighton and Hove
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust’s risk rating for neurology capacity remains “red” (extreme).
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals makes NICE award finals
PERFORMANCE: A service designed by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 NICE Shared Learning Awards.
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Young patients oppose child cardiac changes
STRUCTURE: Young patients who have been battling heart and lung conditions have come together to oppose plans to end children’s heart surgery at a hospital.
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NewsCardiologists call for better specialist centres
Senior cardiologists have called for a reduction in the number of hospitals performing heart transplants because they want “bigger and better resourced centres” instead.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe smoother pathways leading to reduced length of stay
Speeding up admission and smoothing discharge has reaped rewards in reducing length of stay. Mark Eaton explains.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a chemotherapy outreach service is putting care into the community
An outreach chemotherapy van is part of a new approach to improving care delivery in the community, says Alison Moore.
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HSJ KnowledgeGrand designs: enhancing recovery on a bigger scale
Enhanced recovery pathways have worked well in individual trusts, but an innovative implementation approach is delivering results across an entire London sector, write Caroline Grace and colleagues.
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Police to discuss controlled drugs policy with Frimley Park staff
WORKFORCE: The FT is making efforts to improve areas of poor performance in theatres, with a focus on improving management of controlled drugs.
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Salford Royal averts risk of mixed sex accommodation breaches
FINANCE: The foundation has found a short term “operational solution” to avoid huge fines from a surgical admissions lounge (SAL) in breach of tougher new rules on single sex accommodation.
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NewsNHS denying patients care, claims surgeon group
British surgeons have accused the NHS of denying needy patients treatment in order to balance their books.
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HSJ KnowledgeIdentifying areas of readmission, and implementing the right interventions
As readmission rates continue to rise around the country, one trust’s study into the causes should help it avoid financial penalties - and paves the way for others to do the same, reports West Suffolk Hospitals Trust’s senior house officer Nina Wilson.
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Queen Victoria Hospital FT rolls out pre-surgical assessment pathway
PERFORMANCE: The Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has introduced a range of initiatives to improve pre-assessment for surgical patients.