All Performance articles – Page 117
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NewsExclusive: Analysis reveals waiting list surge as hospital demand climbs
Demand for hospital services is reaching record levels with the number of patients on the elective waiting list hitting a five year high, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Blogs
Awash with waiting times measures
Monitoring only the RTT waiting times standards can land you in trouble. Here’s how to stay on track.
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NewsScottish health boards 'must do better'
Every Scottish health board reviewed so far on how they deal with serious incidents have been told they must improve.
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CommentHow the NHS can chip away at 18 week waits
Three steps for the government to improve waiting times further
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CommentChris Hopson: Berwick review is an important intervention
Don Berwick’s report outlines the right way for the NHS to move forward
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CommentThe friends and family test is a foe to the NHS
The test is inaccurate and the results damage hospitals
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HSJ KnowledgeImage management: handling rising demand for diagnostics
How to stop the whole hospital slowing down
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CommentFour nations means one huge wasted opportunity
What happens with four countries in a ‘national’ health service?
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: May 2013 data
The local picture on one year and 18 week waits across England, updated with the latest data.
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CommentForget structures, reorganise the incentives
The US provides a model for rapid service change
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust ‘unsafe’ staff told Keogh
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust staff have described care provided by the trust as “unsafe”, the report by Sir Bruce Keogh’s mortality review team reveals.
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HSJ Local
Sherwood Forest trust told to focus on quality over Monitor requirements
PERFORMANCE: The Keogh mortality review has asked Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust to focus on the quality and safety of patient care rather than “meeting Monitor [performance]breaches in finance and governance”.
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HSJ Local
Colchester failed to fully respond to staff's patient safey concerns
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust managers potentially put patients at risk by their “apparent lack of response to escalated patient safety concerns”, Sir Bruce Keogh’s mortality rates review said.
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NewsResignations announced at Keogh review trust
East Lancashire Hospitals Trust today announced the resignations of its chair and deputy chief executive, minutes before the expected publication of Sir Bruce Keogh review’s report on the trust.
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HSJ Local
Basildon builds prefab ward to mitigate winter A&E challenge
PERFORMANCE Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust is procuring a prefabricated building to boost bed capacity in a bid to address its high mortality rate.
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NewsTrusts urged to reduce elective activity during junior doctor transition
Hospitals have been urged to consider further reducing elective activity during the junior doctor changeover in August to help tackle a spike in mortality rates.
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NewsVascular surgeon data ‘misrepresented’ by media
Questions have been raised about how data relating to individual surgeons’ mortality rates has been presented, both by the body that prepared it and the media.
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HSJ Local
Mass resignations at struggling ambulance trust
PERFORMANCE: The non-executive directors of East of England Ambulance Service Trust have resigned en masse following a barrage of criticism from MPs and a withering report on the trust’s performance and leadership.
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NewsDoctors brand CQC ‘not fit for purpose’
The under-fire Care Quality Commission is “not fit for purpose”, leading doctors have said.