All Winter pressures articles – Page 12
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News
NHS 'at least 4,000' beds short for next winter
NHS national leaders have estimated the service is at least 4,000 beds short for next winter and are pushing for fresh funding this year to help plug the deficit, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Local
NHS Improvement rejects trust's bid for extra beds funding
A trust with a bed deficit of more than 100 has had its bid for funding to open more beds rejected by NHS Improvement, HSJ has learned.
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News
Trusts' A&E performance goes sub 50 per cent as NHS hits new low
NHS performance against the four hour accident and emergency target hit its lowest level in 15 years in March, with two trusts sinking below 50 per cent.
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HSJ Local
Trust merger plans 'likely' delayed by a year
The acquisition of a hospital trust by its high performing neighbour is now “likely” delayed for a whole year.
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News
Exclusive: Hunt orders new ambulance handover plan following 'unacceptable' delays
Jeremy Hunt has told system leaders to draw up new plans to tackle handover delays this month after efforts to curtail ambulance queues outside hospitals failed this winter, HSJ understands.
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News
Harding: 'Joint venture' with NHS England may not lead to redundancies
The chair of NHS Improvement has said her organisation’s coming together with NHS England was a “joint venture”, not a merger.
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News
Revealed: Hospitals cancelled more than 500 cancer operations over winter
More than 500 cancer operations were cancelled by hospital trusts in England due to winter pressures, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Providers: Growing bed shortage must be priority after torrid winter
The NHS’s growing bed shortage is the most pressing issue system leaders must address following a torrid winter, NHS Providers has warned, as it dismissed all of NHS England’s core targets for next year as unrealistic.
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HSJ Local
Trust extends winter pressures plan until summer
A trust with one of the worst-performing emergency departments in the country is planning to keep its extra winter capacity open until the summer, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Trust cancels operations until Easter to 'reset' health economy
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has cancelled all elective operations until 29 March to try to “reset” its health economy after the region declared a system wide black alert.
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HSJ Local
Hundreds of patients waiting over 12 hours at strained hospital
A damning review has warned one of the most distressed hospital trusts in the country “cannot enter another winter” without more beds, with hundreds of patients waiting more than 12 hours in its emergency department every month.
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HSJ Local
Trust chief: STP must be reviewed after 'extraordinary' winter
The new chief executive of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has said the region’s sustainability and transformation partnership should be reviewed following “extraordinary” winter pressures.
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HSJ Local
Hospital says patient died 'due to dangerous overcrowding of A&E'
The death of a patient in an accident and emergency department was “due entirely to the dangerous overcrowding of the department”, the trust’s medical director has told HSJ.
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News
MPs challenge medical leaders over flu vaccine concerns
The Commons science and technology committee has challenged medical leaders over last year’s national flu vaccination programme.
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News
A&E performance hits all time low after 'most pressured month ever'
Performance against the four hour accident and emergency target dipped again in February to 85 per cent – its worst since records began – according to official data published this morning.
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News
Trust declares highest A&E alert level for three days in a row
A district general hospital is under “extreme pressure” in accident and emergency and has declared the highest level of alert for three days, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Large hospital trust cancelled 'significant number' of cancer operations
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has admitted a “significant number” of cancer operations were cancelled in early January due to winter pressure.
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News
February ‘most pressured month ever for NHS’
February was probably the “most pressurised month the NHS has seen in its nearly 70 year history”, Simon Stevens has said, as the service continues to grapple with winter.