All Performance articles – Page 31
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NewsRevealed: Surge in serious incidents caused by ambulance delays
Ambulance trusts are seeing rising numbers of serious incidents resulting from delays in reaching patients, research by HSJ has uncovered.
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CommentUrgent focus needed on backlogs in children and young people’s services
We need a coordinated effort, funding and support to help community providers address backlogs of care across community services for children and young people, write Daniel Reynolds and Miriam Deakin
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NewsHospitals taking on two-year waiters won’t be penalised, says NHSE
Concerns that providers are not taking as many patients as they could from struggling neighbours because they feared having to add breaches to their lists have prompted NHS England to publish new mutual aid rules.
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NewsCQC boss: 'We're not going to chase ratings'
Trusts leaders can expect more emphasis on inspection ratings for individual services in future — as opposed to overall organisational ratings — the chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has said.
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CommentUnderlying pressure still rising on elective waiting times
Although elective headline waiting times fell slightly in February, both the waiting list and the wait to diagnosis went up, writes Rob Findlay
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CommentMaking virtue part of everyone’s job
A new unit will professionalise virtue-signalling and oversee a national humility strategy, reports Julian Patterson
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NewsTrusts with the most two-year elective breaches revealed
The NHS has improved its position on one- and two-year-plus breaches for the first time since the system was forced to start reporting waiters over 104 weeks last April, data published today shows.
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NewsBiggest ever rise in 12-hour waits
The number of patients recorded as waiting longer than 12 hours in emergency departments increased by more than 6,000 in March – by far the largest monthly increase ever recorded.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance chief calls out acute trust over ‘lack of action’ on handover delays
An ambulance service has raised concerns over the record number of ‘hours lost’ to handover delays at an acute hospital on its patch, which it says is happening despite the number of arrivals being at its lowest level in seven years.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The inequalities challenge laid bare
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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HSJ LocalPatients asked to travel 200 miles in push to cut elective waits
Long waiting times at Devon’s acute hospitals have forced commissioners to offer patients treatment 200 miles away in London in a bid to reduce the elective backlog.
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CommentThe 'John Lewis' model can help save general practice
An employee ownership trusts model offered as a choice, could help stabilise an increasingly fragile general practice ecosystem, write Tim Harrison, James Morrow and Stefan Scholtes
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News‘Ideologically driven’ NHSE maternity model causing national tension
A policy ‘at the heart’ of NHS England’s efforts to improve maternity care is under question after being sharply criticised by an independent inquiry, and is the subject of major tensions within NHSE and midwifery, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: NHSE’s 12-hour delay data dithering is just wrong
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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NewsNHSE tells trusts to prioritise education over fear trainees are being 'messed about'
Junior doctors and student nurses are being ‘messed about’ as hospitals continue to struggle with operational pressures, prompting NHS England to call on local leaders to prioritise their training.
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CommentTents outside A&Es are a danger to patients’ health and dignity
Putting patients in tents outside hospitals is a completely unacceptable ‘solution’ to the ambulance handover problems and the funding would be far better spent on staff in the community, says Royal College of Emergency Medicine president Katherine Henderson.
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NewsLong ambulance handovers and covid staff absences soar
Ambulance handovers of over an hour have hit record highs in the last two weeks, with one day seeing more than 1,500 ambulances waiting outside A&E departments for more than 60 minutes.
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CommentThe NHS is still stuck in the sixties
Despite big changes in diseases, drugs, technologies and lifespan, NHS service delivery looks trapped in its 1948 aspic. Hard questions need asking about what the NHS is delivering, given its impact on the funding of other public services, writes Norman Warner
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News£3bn group of hospitals moves to centralise electives
North west London’s acute trusts are exploring whether to set up a new elective orthopaedic centre in the region as they seek to capitalise on the concept of ‘fast-track’ surgical hubs.
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CommentThe way we design NHS buildings and services needs a radical rethink
Terry Young shares three things you need to know about designing ICSs as leaders move deeper into the era of health as an information industry