All Winter pressures articles – Page 20
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HSJ KnowledgeEmergency care summit: Sustainability remains A&E's biggest issue
The crisis facing A&E departments
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News£1.2m fund for volunteers to help under pressure A&Es
Trusts will be given an extra £1.2m to fund 700 volunteers to help ease pressures on accident and emergency departments.
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NewsHSJ analysis: Fines for breaching A&E target could rise by over a third
Fines levied on hospitals for missing the accident and emergency waiting target could increase by more than 35 per cent under new rules proposed for the coming financial year, HSJ analysis has found.
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HSJ PartnersBe prepared: Ensuring winter pressures are not so bleak
How winter pressures affect readmissions
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HSJ PartnersTwitter chat round-up: Unnecessary hospital readmissions in winter
Marie Curie Twitter chat
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HSJ LocalTrust's winter cash withheld until it has 'believable' A&E plan
PERFORMANCE: One of the worst performing areas on the four hour accident and emergency target has seen its “system resilience” money withheld temporarily after failing to devise a “believable” improvement plan.
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NewsExclusive: Deputy prime minister puts faith in winter funding
Nick Clegg is pushing for next year’s NHS budget to be topped up with enough winter pressures funding to leave the service in a ‘healthy state’ for the next government
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NewsExclusive: Government set to release more A&E rescue funding
The health service is set to receive a further multimillion pound government bailout aimed at avoiding a politically embarrassing failure of the accident and emergency waiting target during winter
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NewsLib Dems lobby for more money for 2015-16 amid cash crisis fears
The Liberal Democrats are calling for the 2015-16 funding settlement for the NHS to be “in effect reopened” amid fears that an imminent cash crisis could lead to declining access to services and redundancies
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HSJ KnowledgeHow London Ambulance is preparing for winter pressures
Intelligent conveyancing helps to spread the load
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NewsCCGs raise concerns over 'system resilience groups'
Clinical commissioning groups have become concerned about the burden of being involved with ‘system resilience groups’, which are expected to oversee efforts to clear waiting lists and ease winter pressures.
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NewsCCGs 'should have more control over winter pressures funding'
A clinical commissioning group leader has called for commissioners to have more control over “winter pressures” funding, rather than having to pass it directly to providers.
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NewsData video: A&E performance 2013-14 analysed
HSJ reporter Sophie Barnes talks about English A&E departments’ performance, with emergency admissions at major A&E units at their highest level in a decade
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NewsReview calls for Tamiflu rethink
Ministers should review the use of a widely used anti-flu medication, scientists have said after new research questioned the efficacy of the drug.
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NewsWinter pressures monies fund extra admissions
Performance against the four hour accident and emergency target did not improve in 2013-14, despite a huge political focus on the issue, as emergency admissions reached record levels, HSJ analysis has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe kids aren't alright: more children are going to A&E than ever before
There are more under-16s in A&E than over-65s
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NewsBennett defends increased monitoring
David Bennett has admitted Monitor is intervening more regularly at foundation trusts than in the past, due to a “a declined appetite for risk”.
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HSJ KnowledgeWinter pressures and the NHS: the story so far
How the NHS is coping with the winter surge in demand