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Tag Archives: NHS Corporate Self-Interest
More on Barriers to Effective Whistleblowing (BBC News / Patients First / Health Select Committee)
Summary Whistleblowers who “speak out” about their concerns concerning care standards in the health service may still face obstacles, problems and intimidation, despite recent progress in the creation of a more open and transparent NHS culture. Patients First has submitted … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Ann Clwyd MP, BBC Health News, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Cathy James: Chief Executive of Public Concern, Closed Ranks Culture (Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry), Clwyd and Hart Review Into Hospital Complaints, Complaint Advocacy Services, Complaint Handling, Complaint Handling by Providers, Complaint Handling in Social Care, Complaints and Raising Concerns, Complaints Handling in Primary Care, Complaints Matter, Complaints Programme Board (CPB), Complaints Wales, Culture, Culture Change, Defensive Leadership, Duty of Candour, Failure to Act, Fear of Raising Concerns About Care, Francis Inquiry, Francis Inquiry Report, Francis Report, Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up (Francis Review Whistleblowing), Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Freedom to Speak Up? (Whistleblowing Review), Gagging Orders, General Medical Council (GMC), Handling of Complaints by Commissioners, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Hard Truths, Health Select Committee (HSC), Health Service Ombudsman, Healthwatch and Public Involvement Association (HAPIA), Healthwatch England: Power to Act as Supercomplainant on Behalf of Consumers, Honesty, House of Commons Health Committee, House of Commons Health Committee Report on Complaints and Raising Concerns, House of Commons Health Select Committee, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Incident Reporting, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Local Ward Cultures, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Mistreatment of Whistleblowers, Negative Culture, NHS Constitution, NHS Constitution and Whistleblowing, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, No Wrong Door Policy, Nurse Helene Donnelly, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Raising Concerns, Open and Honest Incident Reporting, Open Culture, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, PALS and NHS Complaints Advocacy Arrangements, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), Patients First (Support Organisation), Patients First and Foremost, Positive Culture, Principles of Good Complaint Handling, Professional Regulators and Complaints, Professor Sir Mike Richards: Former Chief Inspector of Hospitals (CQC), Programme to Identify Whistleblowers Who Have Suffered Detriment, Proposal for Single Complaints Gateway for Health and Social Care, Proposal for Single Health and Social Care Ombudsman for England, Public Administration Select Committee (PASC), Public Concern at Work, Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA), Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Putting Patients First, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns Policy, Raising Standards, Relatives and Residents Association, Reluctance to Raise Concerns About Care, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Role of Commissioners in Complaints, Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Shaping Culture, Sir Robert Francis QC, Staff Awareness, Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust, Statutory Duty of Candour, Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Supercomplainant on Behalf of Consumers, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Treatment of Staff Raising Concerns, Trust Blame and the Culture of Defensiveness, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing Guidance, Whistleblowing Helpline, Whistleblowing in the NHS, Whistleblowing in the Public Sector
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Keogh’s Review into Care and Treatment at Fourteen Hospital Trusts in England (Department of Health / BBC News)
Summary It can have escaped no-one’s attention (in England) that the much-publicised (and much “spun”) Keogh Review has been published. Eleven hospital trusts have been placed into special measures to ensure improvements in patient care because of major failings. Read more: BBC News. … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, BBC Health News, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Care in General Hospitals, Care Quality Commission, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, Commissioning, Conflict of Interests, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Deaths Associated with Hospitalisation, Dr Foster, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Group West Midlands, East Lancashire, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Readmissions, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Experimental Statistics, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, General Medical Wards, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, Governance, Governance and Accountability, Health and Social Care Information Centre, Healthcare Evaluation Data (HED), Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Hospital Reconfiguration, Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs), Imperial College, Keogh Mortality Review, Keogh Review, Leadership, Local Authorities, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Monitor, Monitor and TDA’s Quality Governance Framework, Mortality, Mortality Outlier Hospitals, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, National Quality Board, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS England, NHS Governance and Accountability, NHS Information Centre, NHS Money, NHS Reform, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Trust Development Authority, North Cumbria, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Openness and Transparency, Openness. Transparency, Patient and Public Participation, Patient Care, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Patient Satisfaction, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Providers, Quality Surveillance Groups, Rapid Responsive Review (RRR) Reports, Regulation, Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Risk Summit Action Plans, Risk Summit Videos, Royal Free Hospital (London), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Safe Staffing, Salford Royal Hospital, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, SHMI: Summary Hospital-level Mortality indicator, Sir David Dalton: Salford Royal Hospital, Sir Stuart Rose, Staff Retention, Staffing (Hospitals), Staffing Levels, Summary Hospital-level Mortality indicator (SHMI), Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Target-Chasing (Hitting the Target Missing the Point), Transparency and Accountability, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, User Participation, Views of Staff, Ward Staffing Levels, West Midlands, Whole Systems Approach
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NHS Failings Suppressed for “Political” Reasons? (BBC News / Department of Health)
Summary A report (NHS England‘s Keogh review), ordered by the government after the publication of the Francis Inquiry into Stafford Hospital, indicates that 14 NHS trusts – with higher-than-expected mortality rates over recent years – may have contributed to 13,000 excess deaths compared with the national average in 2005-10. Professor Sir … Continue reading
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Tagged Action Against Medical Accidents, Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA), Avoidable Harm, Basildon and Thurrock in Essex, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, BBC Health News, Behind the Headlines, Blackpool, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Burton Staffordshire, Care Quality Commission, Channel 4 News, Colchester, Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, Commissioning, Conflict of Interests, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Dr Foster, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Group West Midlands, East Lancashire, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Francis Inquiry Report, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, George Eliot Warwickshire, Governance and Accountability, Greater Manchester, Hospital Mortality Rates, Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs), Keogh Mortality Review, Keogh Review, Local Authorities, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medway Kent, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Monitor, Mortality, Mortality Outlier Hospitals, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS England, NHS Finances, NHS Governance and Accountability, NHS Money, NHS Reform, NHS Structures, North Cumbria, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Patient Safety, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Providers, Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sherwood Forest Nottinghamshire, Tameside, Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Target-Chasing (Hitting the Target Missing the Point), United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, West Midlands
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