Catch up on our Twitter chat
As Ben Clover reports in HSJ this week, accident and emergency waiting time performance plummeted in April, and hospital leaders say they are grappling with the after-effects of “the worst winter anyone can remember”.
On Thursday we held a Twitter chat to discuss the implications of rising demand in emergency care. Will hospitals break under the pressure, what are the causes, and will the government step in?
More than 300 cases of patient harm have been identified at a North East trust reviewing major care and governance failings in its breast cancer service.
Health economist Anita Charlesworth will independently co-chair a “reformed” National Cancer Board, seven months after the government’s cancer plan promised a body “accountable for delivery” of its commitments.
Concerns have been raised about NHS England watering down a key target for its controversial “advice and guidance” scheme, just weeks ahead of the October deadline.
An integrated care board is planning to pay £1.6m to retain its local Healthwatch for the next four years.
The CEO of a leading trust that is set to begin a “phased” launch of an integrated health organisation has warned the model should not be expected to “fix the ills of everything”.
Around 50 staff facing compulsory redundancy in an integrated care board cluster have complained of a two-month delay as they wait for NHS England to sign off their departures.
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