Category Archives: hospital
Online tools have been developed to ensure patients and clinicians can work together
New online tools can help transform patients’ lives
30 Sep 2011
Patients are being given the tools to help them make informed decisions about their treatments and to encourage a shared decision making process between them and their clinicians.
In line with the ‘no decision about me, without me’ pledge made by the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley to every NHS patient, a new range of online tools have been developed to ensure patients and clinicians can work together more effectively to make the right decision for the patient at that time.
Families would like to care for their family in hospital
Carers back call for extended visiting times in hospitals
Relatives should be more involved in supplying care for their loved ones in hospital as long as it does not replace NHS support, a carers group has said.
NHS reveals burden on emergency services
In 2009-10, 39,000 people who used A&E were not given any treatment.
Published on Sunday 25 September 2011 13:32
PEOPLE attending county hospitals when they did not need to cost tax payers £3.4m last year, it has been revealed.
More than 65,000 people left A&E departments at Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital without receiving any treatment.
A similar problem is people dialling 999 inappropriately, and health officials are trying to educate residents about when they should dial 999 or use A&E and when they should use other facilities.
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