Unacceptable standards of care for frail and elderly patients

Unacceptable standards of care for frail and elderly patients

Two reports published by The King’s Fund have highlighted how frail older people are being exposed to unacceptable standards of care in hospital because of a lack of continuity of care.

Other News

Liver disease killing more younger people

Liver disease killing more younger people

The number of people dying from liver disease in England is rising, according to the first ever national report on the statistics published by the National End-of-Life Care Intelligence Network.
Funding for solutions to tackle healthcare problems

Funding for solutions to tackle healthcare problems

The Government has announced £4 million of funding for businesses to develop cutting-edge ideas to address some of the country’s biggest health problems.
Toolkit for improving safety in maternity services

Toolkit for improving safety in maternity services

In 2006, The King’s Fund launched an independent inquiry into the safety of maternity services. The report from that enquiry, Safe Births: Everybody’s business, made a series of recommendations about how the safety of maternity care could be improved.
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• Cancer trials reporting: reform needed
• Infection Prevention 2012 conference move
• Older cancer patients being ‘under-treated’
• RCN comments on the link between staffing levels and patient care
• Music is beneficial for minor surgical patients

Features

Innovation: meeting the QIPP agenda

Innovation: meeting the QIPP agenda

Accelerating the diffusion of innovation within the NHS will be crucial to achieving the Government’s productivity and quality goals. LOUISE FRAMPTON, speaks to the chief executive of the NHS Technology Adoption Centre, Sally Chisholm, about the barriers to adoption and efforts to overcome them.
Safeguarding patients: challenging the NMC

Safeguarding patients: challenging the NMC

Many nurses and midwives have misguided views that the Nursing and Midwifery Council exists to protect their roles, to protect them as professionals and as a body to represent their views. They could not be more wrong, says KATE WOODHEAD RGN DMS.
Decontamination: dirty little secrets

Decontamination: dirty little secrets

A seminar entitled Dirty Little Secrets recently addressed some key challenges in the field of decontamination – from the risk of transmission of degenerative diseases, to the threat of Pseudomonas. JONATHAN BAILLIE reports.
New closed reduction technique for fractures

New closed reduction technique for fractures

The Clinical Services Journal reports on a new technique, developed by Mr Elrasheid Saed, for the closed reduction of supracondylar humeral fractures in children.
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• Concerns raised over diabetes care
• Pancreatic cancer outcomes remain poor
• Benefits of bariatric surgery examined
• Equipment policy: meeting regulations
• Dementia care: improvements needed

Product Spotlight

Stretcher to drive efficiency and safety
Stretcher to drive efficiency and safety

STRYKER has announced the launch of Prime X, its next-generation transport and x-ray stretcher, which combines a safe and comfortable surface for examination and treatment with a high quality, integrated x-ray cassette platform.

Cardiac output monitoring
Cardiac output monitoring

DELTEX MEDICAL has been selected to provide cardiac output monitoring equipment on NHS Supply Chain under a new framework.

Integrated digital theatres for pioneering Kent hospital
Integrated digital theatres for pioneering Kent hospital

BRANDON MEDICAL’S fully integrated digital operating theatres have been installed at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent, England’s first ‘100 per cent single-bed’ acute healthcare facility.

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Future-proof endoscope reprocessing systems

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Future-proof endoscope reprocessing systems
NHS organisations in England and Wales are specifying flexible, future-proof endoscope reprocessing systems as demand for investigations are set to soar between now and 2017.

DIARY EVENTS

Infection Prevention Society Ambulance Forum
Clarendon Suites, Birmingham
22nd May 2012
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Infection Prevention Society West Midlands Study Day
Clarendon Suites, Birmingham
31st May 2012
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49th Annual Meeting and the 35th Postgraduate Course of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR)
Hotel Athens Hilton, Greece
May 28th - June 1st 2012
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PRODUCT PROFILE

Paediatric nephrology unit gains POC ultrasound system
The Bristol Royal Hospital for Children has invested in a SONOSITE S-ICU point-of-care ultrasound system for its paediatric nephrology unit. Dr Jan Dudley, consultant in paediatric nephrology, explained:
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