PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust’s performance against national targets has been “poor” so far this year, January board documents show.
The PCT had failed to meet standards against six nationally set priorities, including indicators related to ambulance response times for Category B calls, cancer mortality rates, and teenage conception.
It underachieved against a further five Care Quality Commission set indicators, and achieved 11.
January
The NHS cancer screening programme has pulled out of a deal with former staff of the Improvement Foundation amid concerns about how much money the failed company still owes primary care trusts.
Primary care trusts in the South experience more unnecessary referrals than those in the Midlands and the North, data analysis by Dr Foster and HSJ suggests.
An acute trust is investigating a “significant” gap between mortality rates for patients admitted at weekends and those admitted during the week – which it says could be partly due to lack of “wrap around” services in the community on Saturdays and Sundays.
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