All articles by James Illman – Page 31
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Next winter's big obsession?
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsNHS bed occupancy rates reach worst ever level
Overnight bed occupancy rates in NHS hospitals deteriorated to their worst ever level since data collections began in 2010-11, hitting 92.6 per cent between January and March this year.
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NewsChief inspector warns NHS over ambulance handovers and corridor care
Emergency services remains a major quality and safety concern with systems not doing enough to tackle “disappointing” performance on ambulance handovers and corridor care, the chief inspector of hospitals has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local'Significant ambulance delays' caused severe harm but no deaths, review says
Nobody died as “a direct consequence” of significant ambulance delays across the East of England, an external review has concluded.
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HSJ LocalLarge CCG's deficit spirals to £42m
One of England’s largest clinical commissioning groups posted a £42m deficit in 2017-18, £26m worse than its control total, according to its May finance report.
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NewsNHS leaders face fresh criticism over misleading A&E data
Public confidence in official NHS waiting times data “continues to be undermined” because of lack of action by NHS leaders, the government’s statistics watchdog has warned.
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NewsRegulator says 50 trusts can boost cash from overseas patients
NHS bosses have launched a new programme to help boost the amount of cash recovered from treating foreign visitors.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: MPs tell health minister they have 'no faith' in trust leadership
MPs told a health minister and system leaders they had no confidence in the East of England Ambulance Service Trust’s leadership at a private meeting earlier this month, while a former minister claimed managers had “misled” MPs.
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HSJ LocalNHS England regional chief to lead hospital trust
A senior NHS England regional director is to lead Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust, HSJ has learned.
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NewsLast minute cancelled operations hits highest rate since 2005
The proportion of last minute cancelled operations in the NHS hit the highest rate in over a decade in the last quarter of 2017-18 – and rocketed 20 per cent on the same period in the previous year.
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HSJ LocalTrust sells two sites to housing quango in £20m deal
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust has completed a £20m sale of two of its sites to a housing quango, which plans to build 326 new homes on the land.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Does the NHS have an unhealthy obsession with activity?
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter delves into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provides unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them
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NewsNHS 'at least 4,000' beds short for next winter
NHS national leaders have estimated the service is at least 4,000 beds short for next winter and are pushing for fresh funding this year to help plug the deficit, HSJ understands.
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NewsVaunted health tech firm forced to act on misleading marketing
A much vaunted digital health firm that has partnered with Uber has been forced to remove incorrect claims about NHS partnerships from its marketing, and to launch a probe of fake five star reviews allegedly posted by employees.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Changes for A&E admission payments are coming
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter delves into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provides unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them
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NewsTrusts' A&E performance goes sub 50 per cent as NHS hits new low
NHS performance against the four hour accident and emergency target hit its lowest level in 15 years in March, with two trusts sinking below 50 per cent.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt orders new ambulance handover plan following 'unacceptable' delays
Jeremy Hunt has told system leaders to draw up new plans to tackle handover delays this month after efforts to curtail ambulance queues outside hospitals failed this winter, HSJ understands.
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NewsData errors barely affected national A&E performance, NHS England claims
NHS England has insisted the national headline figure for accident and emergency performance was not significantly altered by inaccuracies in trusts’ data returns this winter.
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HSJ LocalConcerns raised over stroke reconfiguration transfer plans
Senior clinicians and local campaigners have raised safety concerns over plans for a major reconfiguration of stroke services in Essex.
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NewsProviders: Growing bed shortage must be priority after torrid winter
The NHS’s growing bed shortage is the most pressing issue system leaders must address following a torrid winter, NHS Providers has warned, as it dismissed all of NHS England’s core targets for next year as unrealistic.