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Service-line management: can it improve quality and efficiency?
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At a time when hospitals are under pressure to improve quality and make productivity savings, they need to find tools to support them. Service-line management (SLM) and service-line reporting (SLR) ...
12:26 - Fri 27 Jan 2012
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NICE approves new generation CT scanners
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Four new generation cardiac computed tomography (CT) scanners can now be used by the NHS to help diagnose and manage patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) who are difficult to ...
12:24 - Fri 27 Jan 2012
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A&E attendances up and patients stay longer
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More than half of A&E attendances involve patients staying more than two hours in the department – a higher percentage than the previous year.
12:21 - Fri 27 Jan 2012
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Independent experts to help improve health results for children
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An independent group of experts has been established to help develop a new strategy for improving care for children and young people.
12:16 - Fri 27 Jan 2012
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Healthwatch England membership consultation
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Stakeholders and the public are being asked to contribute to the development of the Healthwatch England membership regulations.
12:13 - Fri 27 Jan 2012
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Choice of GP practice guidance published
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The guidance published provides primary care trusts (PCTs) with the support tool they need to prepare for the implementation of widening patient choice of GP practices.
10:02 - Thu 26 Jan 2012
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National End of Life Care Programme newsletter
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Issue 41 of the End of Life Care newsletter
09:59 - Thu 26 Jan 2012
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New advice on anti-epileptic drugs
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New recommendations on the use of anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) for the treatment of adults and children with epilepsy have been set out, in updated NICE guidelines.
09:55 - Thu 26 Jan 2012
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CQC publishes 12 reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a further 12 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning ...
09:51 - Thu 26 Jan 2012
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Report highlights benefits of genomic innovation
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A new report on genomic technology highlights the UK’s achievements in genetics research to date and makes recommendations to government to ensure future benefit of genomic innovation for the NHS ...
09:48 - Thu 26 Jan 2012