All Performance articles – Page 24
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NewsNHS plans new elective target after April deadline missed
System leaders are discussing pushing back the NHS’s target to virtually eliminate 78-week breaches from the waiting list by this month to ‘June or July’, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Providers criticise NHSE’s lack of action on ‘rate card’ as row deepens
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentFreedom for the compliant
More recommendations, more key takeaways, more pages. The Longstay Report is bigger and even more explosive than the Fuller Stocktake and the Hewitt Review. The report’s author Sir Trevor Longstay shares its hard-hitting conclusions with Julian Patterson
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NewsPrivate hospitals ‘will turn away from NHS work’ unless tariff increased, they tell NHSE
Private hospitals will turn away from NHS work unless the health service increases the rates it pays, some of the country’s largest independent providers have told NHS England.
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CommentStill waiting for elective recovery
At least the underlying pressure on waiting times has stopped getting worse.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The latest casualties of the NHS data bidding war
A consortium of British companies has been knocked out of the hotly contested competition to win a £480m contract to provide the NHS with a new data platform.
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NewsOne in 10 A&E patients waits 12hrs, long-hidden data reveals
Around 10 per cent of the 1.2 million accident and emergency attendees in February waited 12 hours or more, newly published NHS England data has revealed, laying bare the true extent of the NHS’s emergency care crisis.
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HSJ PartnersListening is key to healthcare innovation
With around a thousand users now signed up to Framespan, founder Ed Bradley explains why listening to providers is key to innovating in healthcare
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NewsExclusive: cost of government’s promised ‘40 new hospitals’ revealed
The government’s flagship hospital building programme will cost an estimated £35bn to complete, almost twice the amount of original estimates, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentHow ICSs can arrest the decline in the nation's health
Axel Heitmueller, Martin Carkett, Paul Blakeley explain integrated care systems’ part in arresting the decline in the nation’s health.
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NewsNHSE blames junior doctors’ strike for impending elective target failure
A senior NHS England figure has blamed the junior doctors’ strike for trusts’ impending failure to hit a flagship target to eliminate 78-week waiters by next month, but HSJ understands the service would have fallen short even without the medics’ walkout.
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NewsMaternity service rated ‘inadequate’ and handed warning notice
A hospital’s maternity service has been rated ‘inadequate’ and issued a warning notice following an inspection earlier this year.
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HSJ LocalTwo ex-acute CEOs brought in to fix ICS’s elective problem
Two former acute trust CEOs have been brought in to help with the elective recovery in the integrated care system with the highest number of patients waiting a long time for treatment.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘Grey area’ over key A&E target
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ emergency care correspondent Matt Discombe
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HSJ LocalLack of private sector help putting elective target at risk, says trust
An acute trust and its integrated care system have said they risk missing the imminent waiting list target, after struggling to get as many patients treated in the independent sector as they hoped.
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NewsThousands of English NHS 999 calls answered in Wales
Thousands of 999 calls are being transferred to the Welsh Ambulance Service because they are taking more than five minutes to answer in England, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ InteractiveLeadership Q&A: Independent Health Group
The role of chief operating officer involves working in a newly formed board, delivering agreed operational objectives with a great but small team, and being at the heart of the organisation, says Independent Health Group’s chief executive officer, Claire Damen
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NewsNHS warned ‘cramming’ A&Es with medics is not working
The NHS’s efforts to prop up emergency departments with thousands of additional medical staff has been the wrong approach to solving the crisis in these services, experts have argued.
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NewsRevealed: ‘How NHSE plans to split trust if turnaround fails’
Options around the future of a troubled mental health trust are set to be presented to ministers by the end of next month.
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NewsNHSE admits elective impact as trust chiefs warn of dangers of doctors’ strike
Ministers and NHS England have not sufficiently warned the public of the risk to patient harm posed by next week’s junior doctors strike, some of the NHS’s most senior trust chief executives have warned.