All Performance articles – Page 118
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Blogs
Winter pressures, week by week
Good planning and monitoring can reduce the risk of crises this winter. We look at a worked example of week-by-week interactive profiling for beds and waiting times.
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Blogs
The blip is over: waiting times break new records
Waiting times resumed their downward trend, breaking new records for best-ever long-waits performance.
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NewsScepticism remains following green light for revalidation
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has given the green light for revalidation of doctors to begin, removing the final barrier to the introduction of a system first recommended more than a decade ago.
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CommentIs choice a blight or a boon for patient care?
Will choice hit the vulnerable or drive up standards?
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NewsGuidance on hospital food revealed
Some hospitals are failing to provide patients with high quality and healthy meals, the health secretary has warned.
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CommentFace the facts on closures
If we don’t share performance information with the public, it is hard to avoid “cuts” branding
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CommentStephen Eames: successful acquisitions
These laudable aims often act as a fig leaf for cost cutting - remember the old fable about Greeks bearing gifts
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HSJ Local
Six outstanding patient safety alerts at Aintree
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s commissioners have reported that it has six overdue patient safety alerts.
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NewsWard rounds being neglected - RCP/RCN
Short term gains from reducing ward rounds are outweighed by the improvements they bring to patient safety and timely discharge, according to clinical leaders.
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CommentThe information revolution
Putting most statistics we hold in the NHS into the public domain will unquestionably drive change
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NewsUK ovarian cancer survival rate 'lower'
Women are less likely to survive ovarian cancer in the UK than in other comparable countries, researchers have said.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Worst performing London boroughs for GP outcomes revealed
An internal report on the quality of GP practices in London has found one cluster performing significantly worse than the other five.
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SupplementsInformation Highways - an HSJ efficiency supplement
This special supplement looks at some of the many ways NHS organisations can help meet their quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings targerts.From improved procurement, to breaking down the barriers to mobile working, via renting out hospital real estate to high street chains, get some practical advice on delivering more ...
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NewsCambridge University Hospitals called into regulator's office
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has called Cambridge University Hospitals to its offices to discuss whether the foundation trust is in significant breach of the terms of its authorisation.
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NewsTrusts ‘stop the clock’ to hit targets
Concerns have been raised that some trusts have excessively used “clock pauses” in order to achieve the 18 week referral to treatment target.
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HSJ Local
Monitor warns of risks to Yeovil's plans
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has judged Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is a “high risk” due to recent personnel changes and lack of financial headroom.
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CommentPutting the quality back into QIPP
Pursuing value could be the right step towards transforming the NHS
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CommentThe healthcare arms race
It is blinkered to assume the best innovations come from developed nations
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: Accident and Emergency performance in Surrey
This briefing looks at how the economy will improve Surrey’s A&E performance