All Admissions and discharge articles – Page 11
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CommentIt's only a matter of time until 18 weeks is breached nationally
Ground gained before the election is slipping away
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NewsMonitor: Out of hospital care ‘no panacea’ for demand pressure
Monitor has warned providers that schemes to move care out of hospital are not guaranteed to reduce costs or demand pressure.
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SupplementsSupplement: The voluntary sector provides winter pressure relief
Social support for patients
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NewsMonitor: High bed occupancy to blame for worst A&E performance in a decade
The worst accident and emergency performance against the four hour target in more than 10 years was due to hospitals struggling with very high bed occupancy rates, Monitor has concluded.
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CommentScottish waiting times spiral upwards despite recovery efforts
Scottish outpatient waits are still going up like a rocket but tackling them effectively will pile further pressure on the higher profile treatment time guarantee
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CommentWhy the NHS must evaluate complex service changes
To maximise benefits for patients and minimise costs
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HSJ KnowledgeThe NHS must manage the unmet mental health needs in prison
Meeting the human rights of mentally ill inmates
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CommentThe RTT waiting time target is not well understood or collected correctly
Patient data needs to be captured correctly
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HSJ Knowledge
The NHS could be world leaders in seven day working
With trusts offering all days services
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NewsExclusive: Letters show how CCGs directed to up activity plans
Letters seen by HSJ reveal how NHS England ordered clinical commissioning groups to change their contracts with acute providers to reflect an assumption that hospital activity would grow this year.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to balance the push and pull of performance and demand
Hospital performance targets
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HSJ LocalCCG to decommission dementia nursing service
MENTAL HEALTH: A North East clinical commissioning group plans to decommission a specialist dementia nursing service and replace it with a carer support service.
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SupplementsSupplement: Enhancing the independent sector's role can ease pressure
Waiting times, delayed discharge and other strains
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NewsAnalysis: Hospitals will struggle to reach new 12pm discharge goal
Trusts have been told to try to carry out at least 35 per cent of discharges before midday, in a new NHS England directive aimed at preventing delayed discharges.
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NewsStevens launches hospital chains 'vanguard'
NHS England will ‘test new ways’ of sustaining smaller hospitals, including ‘chains’ running acute services, in its latest vanguard programme launched today by Simon Stevens.
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HSJ KnowledgeStreamlining inpatient processes can reduce discharge times
Review the continuing healthcare procedures
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NewsCoroner rules lack of mental health beds contributed to death
A lack of mental health beds was a ‘contributory factor’ in the suicide of a teenager being treated more than 100 miles from home, a coroner has ruled.