All Performance articles – Page 125
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Blogs
Transforming real waiting lists with better scheduling
How a rules-based approach to patient scheduling can dramatically reduce waiting times.
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Blogs
New record best for one-year-waiters (now let's go for zero)
A fantastic result on one-year waiters: come on, let’s get them down to zero. Otherwise, everything on waiting times is pretty much treading water.
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CommentStandards suffer when children's services are fragmented
Disparate children’s services need an urgent review
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NewsSchizophrenia care levels 'catastrophically short'
Care for people with schizophrenia and psychosis is falling “catastrophically short”, a report has found.
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CommentIt's time to rethink payment by results
The landscape has changed, and with it so should the tariff system
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CommentLet's find the political will to integrate care
The NHS should focus on integration not more fragmentation
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CommentCroydon's finance crisis is not incredible
The £22m black hole is less mysterious given prevailing cultures
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CommentThe board's first challenges
The commissioning board face difficult times ahead with the weight of expectation heavy
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LeaderRevalidation cannot be left to GMC alone
Will boards have the influence necessary to make medics take revalidation seriously?
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NewsMoves to tackle performance problems at Cambridge University Hospitals
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has recently found itself in some difficulty
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NewsAnalysed: Performance failings in Cambridge
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has a reputation for excellence, but has recently found itself in some difficulty
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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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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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CommentFace the facts on closures
If we don’t share performance information with the public, it is hard to avoid “cuts” branding