All articles by James Illman – Page 34
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: A triple-whammy
An unprecedented warning from senior clinicians that patients are dying in corridors, NHS Providers’ “watershed moment” declaration, and the worst December four hour waiting time figures on record all dropped this week. So, what happens next?
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NewsAnalysed: National A&E performance equals worst ever month
Accident and emergency performance against the four hour target in December fell to 85 per cent, equalling the worst month on record – with one trust only achieving 40 per cent at its major “type one” site.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Senior leaders of three trusts to recommend merger
The joint chief executive and senior team of three Essex acute trusts will recommend controversial plans to merge next year to create one of the largest trusts in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Ambulance handover delay hotspots revealed
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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NewsUpdated: National chiefs order emergency measures as winter pressure cranks up
National NHS officials today ordered an extended moratorium on non-urgent hospital operations, and other significant measures to try to deal with “sustained pressure” on the emergency care system.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: NHS feeling the winter heat
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 LocalCCG chairs abstain from crunch reconfiguration vote
Three out of the five clinical commissioning group chairs in mid and south Essex abstained from a vote over publishing a consultation on plans to reconfigure local hospital services, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAnalysis: NHS DTOCs increase despite national push
The number of NHS bed days lost to delayed transfers of care increased in the second quarter of 2017-18 compared to the first, despite a national target to cut delayed discharges, analysis of official data reveals.
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NewsFunding talks still ‘ongoing’ for A&E workforce plan, says top doctor
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said talks are ongoing over funding for a much vaunted national plan to address the emergency department workforce, despite national officials saying it had already been agreed.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: The battle lines are drawn
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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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Will there be mass elective cancellations this winter?
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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NewsSurgeons told to treat winter like junior doctors' strike
Senior surgeons have been urged to prioritise supporting their emergency departments and help avoid unnecessary admissions over winter, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Multiple CCGs consider minimum waiting times
An increasing number of clinical commissioning groups are considering the introduction of controversial minimum waiting times for “non urgent” NHS procedures, despite clinical and legal concerns, HSJ has learned.
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NewsConcerns as mixed sex ward breaches more than double
The number of mixed sex ward breaches more than doubled over the last two years, prompting concerns from senior NHS managers about care quality and patient dignity.
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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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NewsStevens: Waiting list will hit 5 million by 2021 without extra money
The elective waiting list will balloon to 5 million patients by 2021 and ambitions to improve mental health and cancer care will be jeopardised unless the NHS gets a major funding boost in line with pre-2010 increases, Simon Stevens has warned.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners U-turn on controversial 12 week minimum waits
One of the NHS’s largest clinical commissioning groups is set to ditch a controversial policy enforcing 12 week minimum waiting times for adults needing “non-urgent” treatment – just two months after setting out the plan.
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HSJ LocalTeaching trust to exit special measures after four years
An NHS hospital trust in special measures for the last four years – longer than any other provider – has finally made sufficient improvement to be lifted out of the regime.
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NewsRevealed: 'NHS Airbnb' could have launched as early as December
Plans to pilot a controversial care model with private households renting spare rooms to NHS patients post discharge could have gone live from as early as December and are not dead in the water, HSJ understands.
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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.