All Performance articles – Page 60
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Speak now, or forever hold your peace
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentWe are taking the wrong approach on managing hospital beds
A better understanding of risk will underpin the case for reducing today’s high bed occupancies.
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HSJ LocalMultiple black alerts for large trust with financial concerns
One of the country’s largest teaching trusts has predicted a deficit of more than £40m by the end of the financial year and has declared 15 black alerts since December.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The price of financial lying
The NHS will have to pay the price for cultivating a culture of financial lying and cheating and incentivising the wrong things, warns Andy Cowper
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CommentGMC did not impose annual appraisals to support revalidation
The medical royal colleges – and not the GMC – provide the detailed guidance on how the requirements on the supporting information for their annual appraisals can be met by specialists and GPs. Una Lane gives her rebuttal on Nadeem Moghal’s recent opinion on HSJ
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NewsNHS calls on private sector as waiting list spirals
NHS leaders in Manchester will send more patients to privately-run hospitals to tackle a spiralling waiting list for elective procedures.
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NewsDHSC sets up hotline for Brexit disruption to supplies
NHS suppliers have been told to contact a new 24/7 call centre run by the Department of Health and Social Care if they experience disruption to their deliveries following a no-deal Brexit.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Closing the virtuous cycle
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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News'Insufficient progress' made on cutting waiting list, says NAO
The NHS has made “insufficient progress” on cutting its elective waiting list, according to the government’s spending watchdog.
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CommentThe false promise of the self-improving health system
There is an urgent need to reform the system for paying and contracting for services in the NHS but new complex financial incentive schemes are not the answer, writes Ben Collins
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HSJ AwardsWinners of the 2019 HSJ Partnership Awards announced
The outstanding work that organisations are doing in partnership with the NHS was recognised with winners named in 16 categories at the 2019 HSJ Partnership Awards.
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NewsNew targets could lead to 'bad practice', warn clinicians
A new one-hour target for sepsis, set out in NHS England’s standards review this month, could encourage “bad clinical practice to beat the clock”, a senior clinical leader has cautioned.
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NewsInadequate CCG making 'good progress' after scathing review
An inadequate-rated clinical commissioning group, which was heavily criticised in a review of its governance, leadership and operations, is now making “good progress” on addressing its problems, a follow-up report has said.
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NewsNHS still not learning from deaths, warns CQC
Trusts are not doing enough to review and learn from the deaths of their patients, a report from the Care Quality Commission has warned.
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NewsNew low for A&E after proposals to ditch target
NHS performance against the four-hour accident and emergency target hit a new record low in February – for the second month in a row.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: The four-hour target is on life support – but not dead yet
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsThousands of continence products late as deliveries go 'badly wrong'
Thousands of continence products were delivered late to patients after a switch to a new national logistics provider went “badly wrong”, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE proposes to axe 18-week target
NHS England has revealed proposals to axe the 18-week waiting standard for elective care, with an average waiting target introduced instead.
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HSJ InteractiveFrom success regime to successful integrated care system
Stephen Eames reflects on the journey of North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust from being in special measures to leading a thriving integrated care system
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NewsTrusts bemoan cost pressures from clinical waste switch
Several NHS trusts are grappling with extra costs and relying on temporary containers for clinical waste storage, after a forced change of supplier following last year’s stockpiling scandal.