The hospital introduced a complex logistical model to sift patients more efficiently, but the doctors hated it and went back to defensive decision-making.
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Meantime, the hospital also introduced the patient to other amputees, including war veterans, to give Ms. Abbott a view into her possible future.
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Richard Kirby, chief executive at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, said the hospital had introduced several changes since death rates started to rise in early 2011.
They have a hearing on the management of hospital consultants based on this report from the National Audit Office, which said the new contract for hospital consultants, introduced in October 2003, delivered many of the expected benefits in exchange for a significant increase in pay.
When one measure, the Hospital Standardised Mortality Rate, was introduced in 2001, Walsall Manor hospital was found to have the worst rate in England, compared with expected levels.
But the Department of Health said a series of measures had been introduced under the Better Hospital Food programme.
Falls were monitored for three months before the free slippers scheme was introduced at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich, Carlton Court in Lowestoft and the Fermoy Unit in Kings Lynn, all with units for patients with mental health issues.
The cost saving policy is due to be introduced at Salisbury District Hospital later in the year.
Many people were introduced to the insanity of hospital pricing by Steve Brill, in his wonderful Time Magazine article.
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Last month the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Hospital Trust introduced new measures in an attempt to reduce death rates.
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Booking systems - with GPs arranging consultation times directly with the hospital via computer - will also be introduced from March 2002.
The NHS estimates that on average about 16 patients with critical illness or injury will be diverted from Cheltenham General Hospital to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital at night, when the changes are introduced in August.
By October, the 30-baht charge per hospital visit had been introduced nationwide.
Last week I introduced the idea of a Post-Hospital Syndrome in an article I published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The hospital said it had already started to address issues and had introduced a "trust-wide quality and safety turnaround programme".
There was a sharp fall in the number of children admitted to hospital with severe asthma after smoke-free legislation was introduced in England, say researchers.
Presenting their findings in the journal Pediatrics, they said the number of children admitted to hospital with severe asthma attacks was rising by more than 2% a year before the restrictions were introduced in July 2007.
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