All Performance articles – Page 2
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CommentHas the government’s health mission gone missing?
Sarah Woolnough critiques the government’s health mission, urging for clearer focus on broader health goals beyond the NHS, with steps to tackle health inequalities and prevent long-term fiscal challenges
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NewsCEO of ‘outstanding’ trust to retire early
The chief executive of an “outstanding” trust is to take early retirement, the provider has announced.
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NewsRevealed: The ICBs with greatest ‘opportunity’ to avoid admissions
The systems which NHS England says have the greatest “opportunities” to boost their use of same-day emergency care can be revealed for the first time.
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CommentCutting NHSE in half is a big mistake
Jon Restell criticises the government’s proposed NHS workforce cuts, arguing that they undermine reform efforts and destabilise the system, while stressing the importance of supporting NHS managers for long-term success
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NewsElective payment cap could be axed
NHS England and the government are considering scrapping a cap on elective payments which is set to take effect at the end of the month, HSJ understands.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The big patient choice row
This week, we discuss why private providers are threatening to refuse to treat NHS patients, and why hospital bosses are equally vexed.
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HSJ LocalTrust sticks by overtime pay cut despite harm to elective recovery
Despite the decision to cut doctors’ overtime rates slowing elective recovery at one of the service’s most challenged trusts, HSJ has learned the provider does not plan to reverse the move.
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NewsNHSE steps up intervention over cancer delays
Two additional trusts have been placed in NHS England’s highest level of oversight for their performance on cancer and diagnostics.
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NewsTrust leadership has ‘gone rogue’, claims MP
An MP has called for the chair of Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust to resign.
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CommentElective recovery remains stalled
The waiting list needs to be shrinking about 10 times faster
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NewsNHSE steps up intervention in three systems
NHS England is escalating its intervention in emergency care in three integrated care systems – meaning half of all areas are now getting extra central attention.
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HSJ LocalCounty’s ambulance waits plunge to worst in England
Waits for serious ambulance calls in Northamptonshire now rank the worst in the country, after a surge put down to winter pressures and lengthy handover delays.
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News‘Basic’ gaps left trusts exposed to cyber attacks
Two recent cyber attacks that cost the NHS millions of pounds and led to patients’ data being published online could have been mitigated with basic security measures, an integrated care board has found.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The trusts with the biggest challenge under new elective targets
Elective recovery and returning the NHS to meeting the 18-week standard by 2029 is the government’s main performance priority. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress against this goal. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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NewsInefficient block contracts reviewed by ICBs
NHS England has asked commissioners to review how much they are paying for non-elective care, to tackle the widely varying rates which have developed under block contracts.
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NewsOverhaul of A&E ‘block contracts’ to be trialled this year
The NHS plans to trial radical changes to how urgent and emergency care is paid for in 2025-26, as part of a new improvement plan for the sector, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Leak reveals national plans to tackle A&E crisis
A raft of reforms NHS England and the government are proposing to address the crisis in urgent and emergency care can be revealed after a draft of the recovery plan was obtained by HSJ.
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HSJ InteractiveHow AI could make dashboards redundant within the next 10 years
Digital technology has a big part to play in helping the NHS deliver the ambitions of the forthcoming 10-year plan and address immediate operational pressures, such as the need to reduce waiting times to access elective care. The 3 December HSJ summit, in association with IBM, looked at how this ...
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NewsInfluential 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.