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The UK Care Quality Commission (CQC) has reported that the Great Western Hospital in Swindon failed to meet two essential standards. The CQC said improvements are needed in the hospital to protect patients from unsafe treatment during surgery, according to Newbury Today. The healthcare provider has to improve monitoring of patients’ fluid balance to better protect them from dehydration, the...

NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield, Tennessee, US, has chosen Allscripts’s Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM), an acute care electronic health record (EHR) solution, to help boost the facility….

This report reveals that this year spending on older people’s social care in England has fallen by £500 million and the funding gap is growing. It projects that by 2012-2013 the government would need to spend £1bn more than this year to stop the situation getting any worse….

NICE is to produce a best practice guide to help trusts develop local formularies, as part of a move to ensure that all patients in England have access to clinically and cost-effective drugs. Local formularies provide a list of selected or preferred drugs available to local prescribers and have an important role in underpinning safe and effective use of medicines. However, there is currently no standard...

The government has tabled a series of amendments to the health and social care bill in advance of its report stage in the House of Lords, which begins next week. Health minister Earl Howe has tabled a number of amendments designed to reaffirm the government’s commitment to putting patients at the heart of the NHS and handing power to GPs and nurses….

This case study is about improving the management of patients with minor emergency surgical conditions (principally abscesses) by assessing them and admitting them if possible as emergency day cases the following day. This should save bed days and avoid unnecessary fasting for patients. Patients referred by GPs or attending the emergency department with minor emergency surgical conditions are assessed...

The Department of Health has published a discussion paper which explores personal health budgets for people receiving NHS continuing healthcare. This is aimed at healthcare professionals who will have a specific role in this initiative or are considering the future implementation of personal health budgets….

Secretary of state for health Andrew Lansley has announced extra cash for dentistry in a major government drive to increase the number of people able to access an NHS dentist. 820,000 more people have already been given access to an NHS dentist since May 2010….