All Performance articles – Page 99
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LeaderInspections must help answer primary care’s dilemmas
Steve Field singles out one ‘outstanding’ surgery
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CommentColchester is yet to turn the corner but feelings are mixed
Pressures of austerity collide with transparency
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NewsExclusive: Hinchingbrooke A&E could face axe
The NHS’s only privately run hospital, Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, could lose core services such as its accident and emergency department despite earlier assurances that franchising the hospital would protect it from such a move.
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NewsExclusive: Delayed transfer rate soars to highest level
The national rate of delayed transfers of care has soared to its highest ever level, threatening the better care fund’s ambition to cut costs by improving the transfer of patients from hospital to other care settings.
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NewsOne in 10 GP practices pose greatest perceived risk
One in 10 GP practices have been assigned the highest category of risk in an ‘intelligent monitoring’ system devised by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalAddenbrooke's A&E performance slumps to record low
Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust has recorded the worst weekly accident and emergency waiting time performance by any NHS provider for three and half years, a statistician has calculated.
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CommentAnalysis: Pressure eases on English waiting times
Waiting times recovered surprisingly well in September
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NewsWaiting list shrinks slightly amid government drive to treat long waiters
The government’s drive to help hospitals clear their backlog of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment has started to pay off, figures from NHS England indicate
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NewsExclusive: Stevens warns leaders that funding increase will depend on A&E performance
Senior NHS chiefs have begun ramping up the pressure on providers and commissioners to improve performance in A&E during a round of high level meetings which began last week
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NewsMapped: Candidates for health economy 'special measures'
Whole health economies could face intervention for poor performance under a new approach proposed by the NHS national bodies, under the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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NewsA&E emergency admissions at highest ever level
Emergency admissions to accident and emergency departments have hit their highest level since records began, the latest NHS England figures reveal.
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CommentFour hour performance: the decline continues
There’s little sign of it being reversed this year
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NewsHealth economies to face ‘special measures’ style regime
Whole health economies could face intervention for poor performance under a new approach proposed by the NHS national bodies. It could potentially include a ‘special measures’ approach to areas with serious problems.
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NewsChains test proved 'impossible', Birmingham chief admits
The chief executive of University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust has admitted its first attempt to “test the concept of the chains model” with a trust from a distance has not worked.
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NewsHigh profile trust chief calls for funding overhaul
The head of a respected foundation trust has called for a major overhaul of financial rules to help popular hospitals cope with the extra demand their reputations attract.
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NewsCQC: System needs to improve 'patchy' response to poor care
Commissioners and regulators need to improve their ‘patchy’ record of supporting struggling providers, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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NewsExclusive: Troubled CCGs could face 'special measures' regime
A ‘special measures’ regime could be introduced for clinical commissioning groups with severe problems under plans being considered by NHS England, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsRevealed: Specialised services failing to make the grade
One in five specialised hospital services fall short of the quality standards set for them by leading clinicians, HSJ can reveal.
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LeaderThe CQC hospital inspection regime ‘requires improvement’
It continues to struggle with consistency