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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: A&E has plunged into a ‘performance vacuum’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Comment
Analysis: the long road to restoring elective care performance
How bad will elective waiting times get? And what will we need to do about it? Rob Findlay crunches the numbers.
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HSJ Local
‘Covid triangle’ A&E service rated ‘inadequate’ after infection control concerns
Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust’s urgent and emergency care services have been downgraded from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘inadequate’.
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News
NHSE must pause roll out of new A&E system until it can prove it is ‘working’, warns RCEM president
The NHS should pause the planned roll out of bookable A E slots until a robust evaluation of the new system has been undertaken, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine president has told HSJ .
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HSJ Partners
Bold action and courageous leadership required to recover elective pathways
With a need to drive up productivity through optimising every element of the pathway, the key to a successful covid recovery plan lies in local relationships
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News
‘Criminal cases dropped’ because of problems paying doctors for evidence
Police are being left without enough proof to charge suspects due to failings in the system for reporting medical evidence, senior emergency doctors have warned.
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News
Mapped: England's longest elective care waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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News
Surge of patients hit A&Es over Oxford jab clot fears
Emergency clinicians have raised concerns and called for central guidance for dealing with a rush of unnecessary A E attendances triggered by health anxiety over the Oxford covid vaccine’s safety.
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News
NHS England appoints new national A&E lead
NHS England and Improvement has appointed Dan Boden as interim national clinical director for urgent and emergency care following the death of Cliff Mann.
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HSJ Knowledge
How the NHS can get back on track after covid
As the NHS tackles the backlog of elective referrals and emergency attendances, an HSJ webinar sponsored by Four Eyes Insight and Prism Improvement looked at how to make the best use of existing staff and facilities – and drive up productivity. Alison Moore reports
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News
Trust urgently upgrades A&E security after increased attendance by acutely ill mental health patients
A trust has had to enhance security after an increase in the number of acutely ill mental health patients — including children — attending its emergency departments.
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News
‘Outstanding’ trust’s takeover of neighbour gets the go-ahead
The takeover of a hospital trust by its ‘outstanding’ neighbour has been backed by both boards, and is likely to go ahead within weeks.
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News
Ambulance and community staff grew more positive about their trusts in 2020
Most ambulance, community and specialist trusts saw an increase in the proportion of their staff recommending the organisation as a place to work during 2020.
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HSJ Local
Controversial service closures to be reversed
Trusts in north central London will begin unpicking the temporary reorganisation of their paediatric inpatient and emergency services from April, provided the pressure of the covid pandemic has eased sufficiently.
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HSJ Knowledge
Webinar: How the NHS can get back on track after covid?
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell was joined by two leading commentators to look at how the NHS can recover after covid in an HSJ webinar . Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, and Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, examined the mountain the NHS ...
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News
Updated: CEO’s email ‘contributed to low morale’ at covid-hit A&E
Staff at a hard-pressed accident and emergency department were left feeling demoralised and unsupported by the actions of the senior leadership team, the Care Quality Commission has found.
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News
Exclusive: Sharp drop in patient goodwill towards NHS since autumn
Patient positivity about NHS hospital services suffered a sharp drop during the autumn, and satisfaction with access is now well below pre-pandemic levels, according to analysis exclusively shared with HSJ .
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News
Tributes paid to ‘exceptional’ national A&E leader ‘who will be remembered forever’
NHS leaders and former colleagues have paid emotional tributes to Clifford Mann, the national clinical adviser for accident and emergency care, who passed away on Saturday.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting time
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in December 2020, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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News
Three acutes drop below 50pc performance on A&E target
Three acute trusts in London and the South East saw the performance against the main four-hour emergency target drop below 50 per cent in January, according to the latest data from NHS England.
