All Winter pressures articles – Page 17
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Chucking the basket cases on the scrapheap
Welcome to HSJ’s new Performance Watch expert briefing. Our new fortnightly newsletter will delve into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provide unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them.
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HSJ LocalNHS England and NHS Improvement recruit regional 'winter director'
NHS England and NHS Improvement have appointed a joint “winter director” to oversee London’s accident and emergency performance.
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NewsTrust chiefs given new instructions to tackle winter DTOCs
NHS Improvement has written to the chief executives of all trusts providing community services setting out actions they must implement to reduce delayed transfers of care over winter.
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NewsTrusts under-report A&E performance figures, says regulator
The NHS’s overall accident and emergency performance data may get a “small” boost ahead of winter after it emerged some trusts are not including certain urgent care activity where the 95 per cent four hour target is largely met or bettered.
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CommentDTOCs dispute could jeopardise care reform
Richard Humphries on the storm clouds gathering over the NHS and local authorities this winter
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: The only way is ethics
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ LocalHospital trust may hire mobile morgue for winter
A hospital trust in the south of England may hire a mobile morgue and use local funeral directors’ facilities as part of its preparations for winter.
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NewsTrusts miss NHS England A&E performance milestone
Trusts have fallen short of NHS England’s first milestone towards hitting the national emergency performance waiting time target, official figures reveal today.
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NewsHSJ Live 10.10.17: Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey face MPs
Live coverage as the NHS England and NHS Improvement chiefs face the Commons health committee
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NewsExclusive: Trust bosses call on government to confirm sustainability cash beyond 2019
NHS trust leaders have called on the government to protect the £1.8bn sustainability fund beyond 2018-19, but say it should not be channelled into commissioning allocations until problems with the national tariff are addressed.
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NewsCQC issues list of A&E safety inspection targets
The Care Quality Commission has set out the eight major priority areas which will underpin its regulation of urgent and emergency care providers this winter
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HSJ Local
CCGs find no link between GP hours and A&E attendance
Two Nottinghamshire clinical commissioning groups, which also lead a national vanguard, have found there is no direct link between extended GP opening hours and accident and emergency attendances.
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NewsStevens: NHS will be forced to open extra beds if DTOCs aren't cut
The NHS will have to open more beds – but would struggle to staff them – if there are not sufficient reductions in delayed transfers of care ahead of winter, Simon Stevens has said.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Capital funds are coming for the NHS, but there's a catch
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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NewsLabour calls for £500m 'winter bailout fund'
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth will call on the government to provide a £500m “winter bailout fund” for health and care services.
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NewsNHS leaders chant 'we can do this' at A&E improvement summit
NHS chief executives were led in a chant of ‘we can do this’ at a nationally convened meeting about the need to improve emergency performance, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ LocalThird of hospital's patients unable to leave as CCGs struggle to fund services
A trust in the West Midlands is unable to discharge 30 per cent of patients from one of its hospitals as commissioners in the region struggle to fund community services, HSJ has been told.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Making the NHS sweat is a dangerous game
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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NewsSimon Stevens: Cut DTOCs to prepare for possible flu outbreak
Freeing up delayed transfer of care beds will be vital to ensuring the NHS has enough capacity to manage winter pressures and a possible flu outbreak, Simon Stevens has warned.
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NewsA&E scorecard plan replaced by patient flow dashboard
NHS Improvement has dropped plans to rank trusts on an accident and emergency “scorecard” and instead launched a performance data “dashboard” to help trusts better identify patient flow bottlenecks and share best practice.