All Performance articles – Page 74
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Whistleblower warns trust is 'worst it's ever been' as staff shortage revealed
An ambulance trust has been accused of putting targets ahead of patient safety and creating a culture in which staff are too scared to raise concerns by a senior whistleblower within the organisation.
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HSJ LocalNew chair of special measures trusts 'likes a challenge'
Kettering General Hospital Trust is to share a chair with the Princess Alexandra Trust despite the pair not being in the same geographical or organisational patch.
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NewsRevealed: Major expansion of 'model hospital' to STPs and CCGs
The “model hospital” system for measuring trusts’ productivity and efficiency is to be expanded over the next two years to CCGs, STPs and ACOs, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalA&E night closure will not face investigation
The overnight closure of Grantham and District Hospital’s A&E will not face a full investigation by the Independent Reconfiguration Panel.
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HSJ LocalCCG leaders spend too much time in meetings, damning review finds
Senior chiefs at a clinical commissioning group rated inadequate should spend less time in meetings and improve their leadership behaviour, a highly critical internal review has said.
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HSJ LocalBullying, harassment and 'militaristic leadership' exposed at trust
A damning report has revealed a culture of bullying, harassment and alleged sexual predation at an ambulance trust that managers failed to address, leaving employees “bereft of both confidence and direction”.
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HSJ LocalTimeline: Troubled years at ambulance trust
Professor Duncan Lewis’s damning report on South East Coast Ambulance Service has been published following years of controversy at the trust.
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News'Serious concerns' over new bed occupancy target ahead of winter
Leading clinicians have raised serious patient safety and efficiency concerns about a new 92 per cent bed occupancy benchmark for trusts.
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CommentThe problem with annual planning
In theory, the NHS has highly sophisticated processes for finance and activity planning. In practice they are rather less polished. So here are two changes that would transform planning for the better, says Rob Findlay
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HSJ LocalSpecial measures trust extends overnight A&E closure
Grantham and District Hospital’s emergency department will remain closed overnight for at least another three months, United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has announced.
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CommentThe Mirror Mirror report prompts some hard reflections
Comparisons of health outcomes around the world are difficult to achieve but increasingly important, argues Ruth Thorlby
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CommentCowper's Cut: The Monday morning wake-up call
A Platonic dialogue between a health secretary and a chief executive with performance problems.
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NewsMapped: STP ratings, finances and system performance
Exploring STPs’ ratings, leadership, finances, emergency care performance and delayed transfers.
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NewsTrusts could face sanctions if they fail to comply with new A&E standards
Hospitals must meet best practice standards around improving patient flow this financial year or they could face sanctions, as system leaders try to avert another A&E winter crisis.
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NewsRevealed: DH civil servants' performance related pay
More than 440 civil servants at the Department of Health were paid nearly £780,000 in 2016 as a result of performance related pay, it has emerged.
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NewsHospitals given new bed occupancy target as NHS braces for winter
NHS bosses have set out a range of new targets for providers and commissioners, amid concerns about the system’s performance against the four hour target and the upcoming winter.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Trust accused of putting patients at risk with 'fixation' on targets
East of England Ambulance Trust faces accusations of putting patient safety at risk over the last 18 months because of a “fixation” with hitting response time targets.
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HSJ LocalTrust exits financial special measures but still needs to make £25m savings
North Bristol Trust has been taken out of financial special measure but faces another year of challenging savings to meet its control total.
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NewsExclusive: Accountable care systems will make 'pathway' for STPs to follow
The first NHS “accountable care systems” must develop a “pathway” for STPs in other areas to follow, according to their agreement with NHS England, seen by HSJ.
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HSJ LocalCapped expenditure area CCG warns finances 'could deteriorate'
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG