All Targets articles – Page 36
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NewsTrusts could be offered £300m 'incentive fund' to beat control totals
Nearly £300m of unallocated sustainability and transformation funding could be used to incentivise trusts to exceed their financial target for 2016-17 Proposal being prepared by NHS Improvement for the Treasury Experts warns policy could “exacerbate” problems for trusts in difficulty Trusts that miss out on sustainability and transformation ...
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NewsDelayed transfers reach highest ever level
Delayed transfers of care in August hit their highest level since monthly data started being collected six years ago.
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HSJ LocalFollow-ups for 20,000 patients delayed at 'serious incident' trust
A serious incident has been declared at a struggling foundation trust for the second time in 12 months after more than 20,000 outpatients were overdue follow-up appointments.
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NewsAll trusts given new targets to achieve provider sector surplus
Targets aim to bring provider sector into surplus next year Trusts in deficit have had their control totals ratcheted down, while surplus trusts must also improve their position. Extra funding focused on sustaining services rather than transformation or service enhancements See trusts’ indicative allocations from the STF Financial ...
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CommentThe planning guidance: Christmas come early or winter of discontent?
While early publication of the planning guidance is helpful, there is much to be done about fulfilling competing demands with stretched resources
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NewsRevealed: Less than a third of trusts hitting revised A&E targets
Less than a third of providers have hit “reset” targets for A&E for July NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey says primary care access and school holidays were factors Less than a third of trusts have achieved the new, lower accident and emergency targets for July, which they ...
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NewsPlanning guidance: 'System control totals' to be issued for STPs
All providers and clinical commissioning groups will be accountable for “overall system control total” Transformation funding and incentive payments will be tied to delivery of system financial target Targets aim to “reduce the incentives for individual organisations to optimise their own financial position at the expense of the wider ...
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NewsTrusts allowed to miss 2016-17 targets in 'rare' cases
Planning guidance says trusts will be allowed to miss targets if due to “exceptional” reasons But they will need to be back on track by 2017-18 Permission will only be granted in “exceptional circumstances” Trusts will be allowed to miss performance targets this year if it was a ...
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News'Special measures' considered for trusts failing on A&E
NHS Improvement considering new “special measures” category for operational performance including A&E Comes as English hospital sector records worst quarter one A&E performance since 2003 HSJ analysis shows worst performing 40 trusts responsible for 63 per cent of year on year decline NHS Improvement is considering a new ...
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NewsProviders could face 'mandated support' from regulator
Providers will be able to earn greater autonomy and less central oversight by meeting NHS Improvement monitoring targets Lowest band of regulation reserved for trusts in special measures requiring mandated support from the NHS Improvement NHS Improvement’s new single oversight framework published today Regulators will allow NHS trusts ...
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News18 week waits, July 2016: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for July 2016
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NewsNHS England reveals four hour target for mental health
Mental health waiting time targets due to be in place by 2021, NHS England clinical director says Patients in crisis will be able to expect to be seen by a doctor or nurse within an hour Mental health patients should be seen and given a treatment plan within four ...
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CommentJunior doctors' strikes - the effect on waiting times
Junior doctors’ strikes mean a loss of elective activity and a rise in waiting times, but don’t go blaming them for the continued breach of “18 weeks”.
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HSJ LocalIncrease in year-plus waiters at Imperial
PERFORMANCE: The number of patients waiting more than a year for elective treatment at Imperial College Healthcare Trust has almost doubled to 80 people, board papers reveal.
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HSJ LocalSouth Coast trust in special measures after serious leadership failings
QUALITY: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust is to be placed in special measures after the Care Quality Commission rated it inadequate.
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NewsExclusive: Trusts' finances on track but 'nasty surprise' predicted
More than three-quarters of acute trusts are currently forecasting to meet their financial target Acute sector forecast to be only £75m worse than control totals at end of 2016-17 Warnings that financial incentives will lead to “nasty surprise” later in the year Most hospital trusts are currently forecasting ...
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CommentEngland remains solidly in breach of 18 weeks as new incentives loom
Longer-waiting services should have improved in June, as trusts approach the start of their “reset” trajectories in July. But instead those longer waits got worse.
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NewsMental health sector to move away from block contracts
Mental health commissioners and providers told to move away from block contracts NHS Improvement and NHS England say contracts should be capitated or episodic New contracts should have a proportion of payments linked to outcomes and new waiting time targets Mental health commissioners and providers have been told ...
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NewsCQC chief: I'd let waiting times slide to protect quality
David Behan says waiting times currently increasing as trusts “hold on to quality” CQC rules out “flexing” its ratings approach in response to “tight financial environment” Recognises providers are in a “really difficult position” trying to maintain financial and quality controls The chief executive of the Care Quality ...
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NewsWide variation found in emergency specialist surgery mortality rates
Thirty day mortality rates for emergency bowel surgery vary between 20.7pc and 3.2pc at best and worst performing hospitals Quarter of hospitals do not admit high risk patients to critical care post-surgery in recommended timeframe Six per cent annual drop in most urgent patients reaching theatre within two hours ...