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Hospital Weekends (29th Jan 12 at 12:55pm UTC)
Previous posts on this subject at http://breathingforlife.vforums.co.uk/News/603/hospital-weekends Health secretary Andrew Lansley's plans to change the way hospitals are run at weekends http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9047257/Health-secretary-Andrew-Lansleys-plans-to-change-the-way-hospitals-are-run-at-weekends.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (29th Jan 12 at 2:20pm UTC)
NHS trusts would be left to decide whether they wants to pass on the money to doctors, nurses and other staff prepared to work on Saturdays and Sundays. I take it that's a no then.
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Re: Hospital Weekends (3rd Feb 12 at 10:55am UTC)
Hospital patients more at risk at weekends, http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/03/hospital-patients-risk-weekends
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Re: Hospital Weekends (26th Mar 12 at 11:54pm UTC)
Seven-day NHS 'unaffordable' says BMA http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9165617/Seven-day-NHS-unaffordable-says-BMA.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (8th May 12 at 11:18am UTC)
Time to end the scandal of our 9-to-5 NHS: 'It's outrageous patients suffer because my colleagues refuse to give up their weekends,' says top A&E doctor Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2140950/NHS-Patients-suffer-A-E-staff-refuse-weekends.html#ixzz1uHAuLrIo
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Re: Hospital Weekends (8th May 12 at 8:41pm UTC)
A leading surgeon has rubbished the idea that tired doctors cannot function properly as he criticised regulations that mean junior medics are not allowed to work longer than 48 hours a week. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9250518/Top-surgeon-says-48-hour-week-damages-doctors-training.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (23rd Jun 12 at 9:18am UTC)
Death rates at NHS hospitals increase when junior doctors start their jobs, in what a senior health service official described as a “killing season”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9350659/New-junior-doctor-rules-will-stop-NHS-killing-season.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (9th Jul 12 at 11:09pm UTC)
Hundreds of people die or suffer serious disability unnecessarily every year because they suffer a stroke at a weekend when NHS care is poorer, a major study has found http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9387023/Hundreds-die-from-strokes-at-weekends-because-of-poorer-NHS-care-study.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (20th Jul 12 at 10:23pm UTC)
One in eight doctors does not think hospitals provide high-quality care at weekends and “catastrophes” are feared on wards because staff cover is so poor. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9415058/Doctors-fear-catastrophes-on-hospital-wards-at-weekends.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (25th Sep 12 at 8:13pm UTC)
Coroners have issued a record numbers of recommendations to hospitals in order to prevent future patient deaths. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9565522/Coroners-make-record-number-of-recommendations-to-NHS.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (11th Oct 12 at 11:17pm UTC)
Seriously ill patients are being put at risk on NHS wards because not enough consultant doctors are working at nights or weekends, according to a report on how to achieve better seven-day-a-week care. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9600165/Lack-of-weekend-NHS-consultants-risking-patients-lives.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (16th Oct 12 at 10:17am UTC)
Patients need safe care 24 hours a day, seven days a week Fire services do not operate with slimmed down crews on Saturdays and Sundays, so why should hospitals? http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2012/oct/16/patients-need-safe-care-24-7
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Re: Hospital Weekends (16th Oct 12 at 8:51pm UTC)
Patients with liver disease are up to 42% more likely to die' if admitted to hospital at the weekend http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2218599/Hospital-patients-liver-disease-42-likely-die-admitted-weekends.html#ixzz29UtkGioT
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Re: Hospital Weekends (16th Oct 12 at 9:36pm UTC)
Hospital death rates jump at the weekend, according to health research firm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9613136/Hospital-death-rates-jump-at-the-weekend-according-to-health-research-firm.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (16th Dec 12 at 10:38pm UTC)
NHS 'should operate seven days a week' http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-should-operate-seven-days-a-week-8421162.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (16th Dec 12 at 10:53pm UTC)
Surgeons and GPs should take a lesson from Tesco and give patients a full service of operations and scans at weekends, an NHS chief has said. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9748905/Learn-from-Tesco-to-work-seven-days-a-week-doctors-told.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (18th Dec 12 at 10:18pm UTC)
Dr Sarah Jarvis says plans to provide routine NHS services seven days a week could put pressure on costs and make life more difficult for GPs who are already working very long days. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9752352/NHS-weekend-working-plans-could-put-staff-under-pressure-says-GP.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (21st Dec 12 at 5:19pm UTC)
Junior staff work weekends which is the reason why senior staff want the 120 hour week back for junior doctors. If the juniors are working more hours than it is safe to drive for with a lorry, it is hard to see beyond senior consultants that that want to do more private work and less at where they are contracted to be
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Re: Hospital Weekends (29th Dec 12 at 11:56pm UTC)
More people die over the Christmas holidays with deaths at their highest on New Year’s Day, it can be revealed, as the NHS festive shutdown is thought to be to blame http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9741807/More-die-over-Christmas-holidays-and-New-Year.html
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Re: Hospital Weekends (23rd Feb 13 at 12:09am UTC)
The NHS must provide routine services seven days a week in order to be 'patient centred, compassionate and convenient', Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director, has said. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9885102/NHS-must-operate-seven-days-a-week-in-order-to-be-compassionate-Sir-Bruce-Keogh-has-said.html
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