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News
Rise in year-long elective waits
Year-long waits for elective care have risen for the second month in a row, despite a reduction in the overall waiting list.
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Comment
List cleaning keeps elective recovery on track
Validation exercises kept waiting list recovery on track in May… but the outlook is poor for June and July’s figures.
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News
Exclusive: The best and worst hospitals for A&E performance
Performance against the headline A&E waiting time target got worse at 69 hospitals last year amid NHS England warnings of persisting regional variation, unpublished stats have revealed.
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Comment
Elective recovery on track after validation boost
When the validations are over, we will see if the NHS really is on track to restore 18 weeks
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News
‘Blame shunting’ by providers leads to poor emergency care, says NHSE
The ‘inability or unwillingness’ of some NHS and social care providers to work together has contributed to an ’unimaginable’ deterioration in emergency care performance, according to NHS England
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HSJ Partners
Enhancing cancer detection in rapid diagnostic centres: A radiologist’s perspective
The NHS long-term plan has set a crucial target: By 2028, 75 per cent of cancers should be diagnosed at stages one and two. Detecting cancer at the earliest possible stage is crucial to improving patient outcomes.
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Comment
Wait list grows for first time in seven months
Seasonal growth has overwhelmed recent sluggish improvements, writes Rob Findlay
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News
Major provider joins NHSE’s most challenged group
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has joined four other trusts in NHS England’s most challenged category for all three of elective, diagnostic and cancer performance.
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News
Trusts cut use of private ambulances despite performance woes
Two ambulance trusts with some of the worst performance on a key response time target are reducing the use of private ambulance firms.
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News
ICBs told to get tighter grip on GP referrals
Integrated care boards have been told to significantly strengthen the drive to ensure that potential GP referrals are first scrutinised by hospital consultants.
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News
ICBs to impose ‘minimum waiting times’ for services
NHS England has proposed introducing “minimum waiting times” for certain elective specialties as system leaders grapple with how to balance clinical needs and a real terms funding cut for local services.
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Comment
Wait list falls for sixth consecutive month but too slowly
This run of good news is probably coming to an end
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Out of the frying pan and under the microscope
Elective recovery and returning the NHS to meeting the 18-week standard by 2029 is the government’s main performance priority. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress against this goal. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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Comment
Elective recovery remains stalled
The waiting list needs to be shrinking about 10 times faster
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The trusts with the biggest challenge under new elective targets
Elective recovery and returning the NHS to meeting the 18-week standard by 2029 is the government’s main performance priority. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress against this goal. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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News
Exclusive: Govt abandons commitment to hit cancer, mental health and A&E targets
The government cannot commit to meeting national cancer, A&E, diagnostic, mental health and ambulance waiting time targets by the end of this Parliament, Wes Streeting has told HSJ.
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News
Exclusive: Leak reveals national plans to tackle A&E crisis
A raft of reforms NHS England and the government are proposing to address the crisis in urgent and emergency care can be revealed after a draft of the recovery plan was obtained by HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The plan to massage the waiting list
Elective recovery and returning the NHS to meeting the 18-week standard by 2029 is the government’s main performance priority. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress against this goal. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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News
Exclusive: Elective recovery scheme ‘wide open to gaming’
Plans to pay trusts to validate and sometimes remove patients from their waiting lists could be “wide open to gaming” and create a public perception problem, senior NHS figures have told HSJ.