All Winter pressures articles – Page 32
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GP deputising 'failures' added to holiday crisis
Two studies have been launched into claims that failures in GP deputising services added to pressure on accident and emergency services at Christmas.
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Lighting up time
How will NICE work? And whatever happened to 'beacon' hospitals? Baroness Hayman has the answers. Mark Crail reports
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Lazy days of summer
It is commonly accepted that winter emergency admissions are a major cause of longer waiting lists. But, argues Neil Pettinger, the truth may have more to do with a slowdown in warmer months
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Sound post
In the second of an occasional series on the progress of Plymouth's health action zone, Laura Donnelly finds that the pressure to deliver means targets are not always as radical as they might be
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Despair over cheap jibe at primary care cover during the festive season
Having been a GP in active practice for over 30 years and worked in various NHS structures trying to advance a needs-led service, I despaired at your article, 'There is a crisis. I'm not denying it' (news focus, 14 January).
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Home service
Winter pressure on hospital beds can be reduced by providing emergency care in patients' own homes. Bronwyn Croxson and colleagues explain
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Ministers want single pay review body structure as part of modernisation drive
Ministers floated their first thoughts on how the proposed new pay system for the NHS might work this week - just as they are gearing up to announce this year's pay awards, which sources say will be on 4 February.
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Fancy brick work
How much support exists for the health select committee's proposal to integrate fully health and social services, wonders Pat Healy; 'Bringing them together would be a disaster. You can't force people to work together'
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'There is a crisis. I'm not denying it'
Hospitals have buckled under the strain of this year’s winter pressures. Thelma Agnew and Laura Donnelly report HSJ’s findings, as health secretary Frank Dobson gives his verdict:
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Pay, not PR, is the solution Ministers must get to the heart of nurse shortages - and winter crises
Another new year, another clutch of 'NHS in crisis' headlines bespatters the national newspapers. The pattern is a classic, if not quite perennial, one: widespread outbreaks of flu lead to more patients presenting in accident and emergency departments, while on the wards the same outbreaks lead to elderly people blocking ...
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Cold remedies
As winter pressures begin to bite, one health authority is better able to cope, thanks to multi-agency workshops which also involved local elderly people.
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£155m hospital for Bromley
Contracts have been signed for the ninth major hospital to be built under the private finance initiative. Building work on a £155m hospital for Bromley will start shortly.
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monitor
More this week on secret plans for PCGs (that's the patient consultative groups revealed here last week). As you will recall, all patients are to be grouped into PCGs of roughly 500 people each. Our secret source reveals that practice budgets will be devolved to each PCG, whose duties will ...
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Crackdown on NHS sickness bill begins
NHS human resources managers are to have new guidance on tackling absenteeism in line with chancellor Gordon Brown's bid to cut £6bn from the public sector staff sickness bill.
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Chancellor finds extra £250m to cope with winter pressures
Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £250m 'winter cash' for the NHS in his pre-budget statement on Tuesday.