The Healthcare Commission has published its most comprehensive review of urgent and emergency care, rating performance for each primary care trust area.
It found that improvements to access and elements of commissioning were needed.
For more details, go to www.healthcarecommission.org.uk
A review of deaths at a trust with elevated mortality rates has suggested coding issues, and not care quality, as the likely cause, HSJ has been told.
RTT waiting times shot up in December as winter started to bite. In better news, one year waits continued to fall. By Rob Findlay
Children’s and young people’s services at a major acute trust have been rated “inadequate” after concerns from staff prompted the Care Quality Commission to carry out an unannounced inspection.
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Financial penalties are being lifted from high-profile standards including cancer and elective waiting times, so far without attracting much attention. How is this happening? And will it work, asks Rob Findlay
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