London Eye: Wooden dollars
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: How the ambulance service got a lot better
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Trust poaches CEO back from Wales
England’s largest ambulance provider has hired a new CEO from the Welsh ambulance trust.
Trusts cut use of private ambulances despite performance woes
Two ambulance trusts with some of the worst performance on a key response time target are reducing the use of private ambulance firms.
Key recovery target hit
Ambulance services hit a crucial “interim” target for responding to the bulk of emergency calls last month, and showed marked improvements for the most serious category of incidents.
Staffing vital to high hear and treat rates, say trusts
Some 30,000 emergency ambulance trips could be avoided every month if trusts provided more advice over the phone, according to NHS England figures.
NHS Providers appoints new CEO
NHS Providers has appointed an ambulance trust boss who also has extensive acute sector experience as its new chief executive.
Influential figures call for ‘single UEC service’ for NHS
The NHS should create a “single 24/7 service” for urgent and emergency care to address what is currently a “fragmented and disjointed” system, six expert groups have said.
HSJ Podcast: Winter ‘panic buying’
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at what no money for winter means for the NHS, and how real a bold new integration scheme is.
Ambulance trusts suffer as calls jump 13% in London
Ambulance trusts are battling an extremely tough October with calls in one region up by 13 per cent year-on-year and others struggling with hospital handovers.
HSJ Podcast: The magic administrator
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at whether the NHS’s whole safety, safe-staffing and quality system is getting overhauled, plus was it one simple trick that slashed waiting times at a trust?
Emergency performance dips as winter nears
Ambulance response times rose dramatically last month with urgent care performance also worsening as winter appeared to strike early.
Trust CEO warns ‘I can’t afford people’ despite missing NHSE target
An ambulance trust which will fail to meet a key target for treating patients with life-threatening conditions this year has delayed recruitment of additional staff due to cost pressures.
Ambulance services hit crucial target
Ambulances reached some of the most seriously ill people within an average of 30 minutes last month – meeting a key NHS England target for the first time in more than a year.
Trust considers tough line on promoting minority staff
An ambulance trust may require managers to justify to its CEO each time they promote someone else ahead of a colleague with a minority ethnic background to a senior role.
NHSE admits ‘urgent’ ambulance target will be missed in capital
NHS England has agreed ambulance trusts can meet ‘realistic’ response times for ‘urgent’ ambulance calls including some heart attacks and stroke this winter, citing ‘service pressures, resources and demand’.
Carbon Copy: Why electrifying ambulances means less can go wrong
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
IT outage still disrupting services after region declared ‘critical incident’
Disruption to GP services is expected to continue this week, while London had to declare a “critical incident” over the Microsoft outage.
Mental Health Matters: Underfunded and over-reliant
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
