All Performance articles – Page 117
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Blogs
Is it harder to be an honest senior manager in today’s NHS?
League tables, naming and shaming and austerity have put more pressure on managers in the public sector, making if difficult for some to remain honest and open.
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Blogs
Commissioning board fumbles on waiting times
The draft NHS contract penalises hospitals who treat their long-waiters, but not if they keep them waiting. Why?
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HSJ KnowledgeThe fight to transform emergency care
How one trust got emergency care performance back on track
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Blogs
NHS holds the line on 18 weeks
Small improvements meant new record-bests for long-waiters in November.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: family knows best
“Everything is essential, dynamic and the answer, until it is replaced”
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HSJ Local
Northern Lincs and Goole moves to new early warning system
PERFORMANCE: Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Foundation Trust has introduced a new patient deterioration warning system - the National Early Warning Score, or NEWS.
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NewsOfsted rating approach 'too simple' for the NHS
The group asked to look into Ofsted-style ratings in health and social care may set out a long term “road map” for the introduction of a system, but believes a comparison with the schools’ regulator is “too simple”.
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Blogs
One-year-waiters: real patients or data errors?
The dramatic reduction in one-year-waiters was more down to validation than treating real patients. But it’s essential nonetheless: there were still plenty of real patients there.
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LeaderA perfect storm of NHS scrutiny
The quality of care in hospitals will come under fierce scrutiny after the Francis report is published
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HSJ Local
Norovirus hits Hull and Cottingham
PERFORMANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has issued a norovirus warning.
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NewsImproved performance as workforce numbers drop
The NHS has delivered improved performance in the second quarter of 2012 despite figures showing the size of its workforce is continuing to shrink.
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NewsFull coverage: Commissioning board sets priorities and rules for 2013-14
The NHS Commissioning Board today publishes its planning guidance for 2013-14.
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NewsCommissioning board sets out 'zero-tolerance' approach to provider performance
Hospitals face a “zero-tolerance” approach to MRSA and long waits for treatment, as well as new fines, under the NHS Commissioning Board’s planning guidance.
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News
CCGs will choose own improvement areas for quality payment
Clinical commissioning groups will be able to choose some of their own targets for the “quality premium” pay for performance scheme, the NHS Commissioning Board’s first planning guidance reveals.
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CommentNHS managers' car metaphors belong on the scrapheap
Managers’ language can be damaging for the wider workforce
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News
Government gearing up for discussion on medical contracts
Discussion on changes to bonus payments for consultants look set to begin in earnest next week with the publication of a long awaited report into clinical excellence awards.
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BlogsOrthopaedics scrapes inside waiting target for first time
Long waits are down again, but the total number waiting is a bit higher than usual. This will become worrying, if it carries on.
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CommentA timely strategy for hospitals to cope with demand
Acute trusts cannot prevent overcrowding but they can reduce demand
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HSJ KnowledgeWireless brings night-time care out of the dark ages
How Nottingham uses technology to enhance night-time care
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NewsNHS bed occupancy figures queried
A health minister has said he does not recognise figures on bed occupancy used in an influential report to show NHS hospitals are dangerously full.