All Performance articles – Page 25
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News‘Mothballed beds’ must be brought back into service to boost elective activity says NHSE
NHS England has warned trusts that it is “essential” that elective procedures go ahead over winter, despite acknowledging hospital occupancy is running at an “all time high”.
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News‘Urgent’ patients waiting up to 14 weeks to be seen
Epilepsy patients needing to be seen urgently are waiting up to 14 weeks – against guidance to see such patients within a fortnight – at a trust with a backlog of neurology referrals.
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HSJ PartnersShow US the benefits – and this time we mean it!!
Benefits are often the most challenging part of EPR business cases. David Corbett emphasises on identifying benefits that trusts need to consider while investing in and implementing digital improvements
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ICSs already in the red
Two out of three integrated care systems are already reporting sizeable deficits in their first year of existence.
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CommentNational positivity strategy to put the smile back on the NHS's face
It’s never been more important for the NHS to look on the bright side - in fact, it’s now official policy. Julian Patterson reports
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CommentThe elective care waiting list tops seven million
We can estimate that more than 20,000 of the seven million people on the elective care list have unsuspected cancer, and face a typical 10-month wait for that diagnosis.
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News12-hour A&E waits soar to new record as waiting list hits 7m
Long waits in emergency departments spiralled to a new record high as the elective waiting list continued to grow, NHS England’s monthly performance data published today revealed.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Elective recovery in a challenged rural area
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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CommentWhat the new NHS ‘operating framework’ must say
NHS England’s highly anticipated new operating framework — aka operating model — will empower integrated care systems with autonomy. Matthew Taylor lists down five crucial factors that would impact this transition
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NewsNHSE plans 24-hour target for new hospital discharge service
NHS England is developing plans for a new universal ‘community recovery service’’ with a 24-hour target to provide ‘step down care’ once a patient is deemed ready to leave hospital, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentSharing best practice needs to be enforced
Barbara Harpham emphasises the importance of proper pathways for organisations to share best practices in order to improve care within the NHS.
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NewsInflux of very low risk referrals sparks review of cancer services
NHS England is in talks about changing a pathway for women with breast problems after performance against the two-week target for them to be seen plummeted.
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NewsExclusive: Patients declining two dates could be struck from waiting lists
Patients face being removed from the NHS waiting list if they decline two dates offered to them for their treatment, new internal guidance seen by HSJ reveals.
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Comment'Learning systems' can help get the NHS off its knees
Giving providers digital tools and technologies to resolve challenges within the health system is a possible approach for embedding learning and improvement into the process of delivering healthcare. By Nell Thornton-Lee, Tom Hardie and Tim Horton
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NewsCost of living crisis stoking appetite for ‘co-ordinated’ NHS strikes, warn trust CEOs
The cost of living crisis is increasing the chance of strikes by NHS staff this winter, fear trust chief executives, who are also concerned there are “increasing numbers of staff… unable to afford to work” in the service.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Will NHSE ever kill off the four-hour 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 bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsCoffey accused of leaving NHS ‘in limbo’ on A&E target
The four-hour emergency care target is ‘not the right answer’ long term, but services have been left ‘in limbo’ by Therese Coffey’s promise that it will no longer be scrapped, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said.
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CommentThe cost of living crisis is a health emergency too
Author David Finch highlights the relationship between the increasing costs of living and deteriorating public health in the UK – and the action that the government could take.
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News‘Four-hour rush’ continuing at top A&Es
Hospital trusts are still treating many patients just before the four-hour A&E target deadline, whose proposed abolition was reversed by government yesterday, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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NewsCoffey promises ‘absolutely no changes to four-hour A&E target’
Therese Coffey has pledged there will be no changes to the four-hour target for A&E waiting times – despite NHS England’s prolonged bid to axe the controversial measure.