Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 10th September

September 10, 2014 Daily News

Troubled trust reveals huge waiting list – HSJ

A huge, previously unreported waiting list of more than 90,000 patients has been revealed by one of England’s most troubled trusts. It comes amid an intense national drive to tackle politically sensitive waiting targets.

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Hospital chiefs urged to tackle A&E crowding – HSJ
Up to half a million patients could be put at risk every year as hospitals struggle to admit patients to hospital wards from bursting A&E departments, the College of Emergency Medicine has warned.

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Apple tightens health data rules – eHealth Insider
When Apple enters a market, competitors – and the world – take notice. So it’s no surprise that the company’s anticipated arrival in the wearable technology sector has generated a huge amount of speculation about what it might entail. The answer became clear yesterday evening, when the company announced a new range of products – one of which is expected to be an ‘iWatch’ that will support health apps.

Helping your people develop emotional intelligence – Mind Tools
Explanation of emotional intelligence and how to build it in yourself and team.

Risk assessment: a brief guide to controlling risks in the workplace – Health & Safety Executive
This revised leaflet aims to help you identify, assess and control health and safety risks associated with workplace hazards – the guidance replaces ‘Five steps to risk assessment’. It is mainly aimed at employers, managers and others with responsibility for health and safety, and will also be useful to employees and safety representatives.

Outcomes-based commissioning – NHS Confederation
The NHS Confederation, in collaboration with Price Waterhouse Cooper, has published Beginning with the end in mind. This briefing explains outcomes-based commissioning and outlines how it might help enable service transformation. It discusses the opportunities that outcomes-based commissioning gives for providers of community services, including the main technical considerations that will need to be addressed. This briefing will be of interest to all commissioners and providers considering developing an outcomes-based commissioning approach that includes community health services. It is particularly relevant to providers of community services.

The costs of specialised care – Centre for Health Economics (CHE)
Patients requiring specialised care are usually treated by specialist teams with particular expertise and equipment. Concentrating services in this way should be cost-effective but there is concern that national tariffs might fail to fully reflect the true costs associated with treating patients that require specialised care. This is because the healthcare resource groups (HRGs), used to categorise patients and on which national tariffs are based, may not perfectly differentiate between patients that do and do not receive specialised care. This analysis aims to identify whether or not a patient received specialised care and evaluate whether and by how much such patients have higher costs than those allocated to the same HRG.

Pressure grows for action on sepsis – HSJ
Identifying and treating sepsis could soon be given the same attention as reducing pressure ulcers or hospital acquired infections, with campaigners claiming Sir Bruce Keogh is “supportive in principle” of increased national focus on the condition.

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NICE Bites: atrial fibrillation
The August NICE Bites bulletin from the North West Medicines Information Service covers atrial fibrillation. The aim of this publication is to provide healthcare professionals with a clear and succinct summary of key prescribing points taken from the NICE guidance on atrial fibrillation (CG180). This guideline covers the management of AF in adults (≥18 years) and includes people with paroxysmal (recurrent), persistent and permanent AF and atrial flutter, but does not apply to people with congenital heart disease precipitating AF.

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