All Targets articles – Page 72
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NewsNHS Wales meets six month waiting time target
NHS Wales has met a target set five years ago to cut waiting times to less than six months, it has been revealed.
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CommentJanice Stevens on same sex hospital accommodation
Same sex facilities call for changed attitudes more than new buildings
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NewsFour nations research reignites row over targets
A report comparing the healthcare systems within the UK has reignited the political row over targets.
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NewsFour countries’ pulses beat to different tunes
The devolved nations of the NHS are showing striking contrasts in productivity and performance, with Scotland’s policy paths in particular appearing to have led its services into a much less healthy state than England’s. Alison Moore reports
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NewsPolitics ‘distracting’ from NHS quality drive
Political pressure and rapid leadership turnover are hampering the health service’s ability to improve quality of care, two reports have warned.
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NewsImprovement tsar warns SHAs to ‘refresh’ Darzi visions urgently
The health service will be set timetables and held to account for implementing “must do” quality and efficiency improvements to try to save £20bn, the Department of Health has announced.
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Comment
Brian James: how to save NHS services in a recession
If politicians want to protect frontline services, they should ask those working there what they should do
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NewsAndy Burnham rages at Tory ‘about-turn’ on funding
Health secretary Andy Burnham has written a furious letter to Conservative Party leader David Cameron accusing him of an “abrupt about-turn” on NHS funding.
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NewsAbolishing NHS targets will reduce need for managers, David Cameron says
Abolishing the target culture in the NHS will reduce the need for “managers and bureaucrats”, Conservative Party leader David Cameron has said.
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LeaderTories’ tempered pledges show the effect of political realities
The Conservatives’ draft manifesto on health offers subtle changes to the party’s health policies.
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NewsNHS at centre of Tories’ election campaign
The Conservative Party has placed the NHS at the centre of its newly launched election campaign with a “realistic” draft health manifesto that scales down several earlier pledges.
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NewsPCTs falling behind on maternity access
More than a third of primary care trusts are failing to meet a key maternity services access target, despite claiming they have met the government’s flagship “choice guarantees” for pregnant women.
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NewsTories accuse government over A&E waiting targets
The Conservatives claim to have exposed widespread evidence of gaming to meet the four-hour A&E waiting time target.
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NewsAmbulance targets review urged
Claims that patient care is suffering because of targets imposed on the ambulance service have prompted calls for a government review.
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NewsPCTs could struggle to hit MRSA ‘objective’
A significant proportion of primary care trusts may struggle to hit a challenging new “zero tolerance” MRSA target, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsAdvances in care for kidney patients
Over the past five years the diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease has improved “significantly”, according to health officials.
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NewsPoor performers on MRSA targeted
The trusts with the worst records for cutting cases of MRSA are to be targeted by a new objective from the Department of Health.
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NewsAmbulance service efficiency savings halted
Wales’s ambulance service will not be required to make efficiency savings after a report said it was performing worse than services in other parts of the UK, it was announced today.
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NewsTory pledge on NHS targets might not hit the spot
As the Conservatives promise voters a shift from targets to a service shaped by outcome measures and what patients say about their healthcare experience, Alison Moore looks at why many managers are sceptical about the idea
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NewsNHS operating framework hits hard
The NHS operating framework for 2010-11 is expected to include “hard hitting” measures to cut the cost and number of hospital procedures and tackle inefficiencies in community health services.