All Jim Mackey articles – Page 3
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NewsPritchard admits NHS behind on elective catch up
NHS England’s chief executive has admitted the service is behind on its commitment to increase elective activity to 130 per cent of pre-covid levels by 2025, saying the recovery would need to be ‘reprofiled’ to catch up after this year.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Fresh challenges in counting and cleaning the waiting list
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsNHS England considers substantive return to ‘payment by results’
NHS England is considering a substantive shift to a ‘payment by results’ model from April, in a bid to drive up elective activity.
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News1.5m fewer people on waiting list than thought
NHS England has revealed it estimates there are 5.5 million people on elective referral to treatment waiting lists, rather than the 7 million which is often reported.
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NewsNHSE ‘forgot the people’ when it ‘rushed’ controversial appointment rules, Mackey admits
NHS England “forgot the people” when it published controversial guidelines last month which said patients faced being removed from the waiting list if they declined two appointment dates, a senior director has admitted.
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NewsStruggling trusts’ CEOs must ‘self certify’ to NHS England
Bosses at struggling trusts must sign new commitments to national leaders about how they are approaching the task of clearing their elective and cancer backlogs, under a new protocol drawn up by NHS England.
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NewsMackey fires warning at trusts delivering ‘inexplicably low’ activity levels
A group of struggling trusts that are delivering “inexplicably low” elective activity levels will face “consequences” if they do not meet revised trajectories, NHS England’s elective recovery adviser has warned.
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CommentReading the warning signs
It’s the Blithering ICS board meeting. The NHS is lurching from crisis to disaster. Will David Rummage become its first victim? Martin Plackard hopes so. Minutes by Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: PIFU progress revealed in leaked report
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the biggest task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The ‘Recovery Watch’ newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsRevealed: NHS England’s list of trusts with worst elective and cancer problems
Almost a third of acute trusts have been identified by NHS England as being ‘at risk’ of missing key targets for electives and cancer recovery, with some facing ‘periodic calls between ministers and CEOs’, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNew NHSE national director role advertised
NHS England is advertising for a new deputy chief operating officer and national director of urgent and emergency care.
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NewsSummer crisis deepens as trolley waits hit new high
Performance figures deteriorated to record lows this month as the unprecedented summer NHS crisis deepens, with trolley waits reaching a new high point and the waiting list growing to more than 6.7 million people.
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NewsVirtual outpatient drive at heart of effort to end 78-week waits, says Mackey
Patients at trusts with long waiting lists should no longer think “they have to go to their local hospital” for outpatient appointments, but should instead be offered virtual consultations elsewhere in the country where there is greater capacity, Sir Jim Mackey has told HSJ.
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News2022 HSJ Awards shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the 2022 HSJ Awards has been revealed after the conclusion of the first stage of judging.
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HSJ LocalTrust begins ‘most ambitious’ outpatients project in NHS
A large acute trust is carrying out a major expansion of patient-initiated follow-up appointments, which is said to be “the most ambitious” project of its kind in the NHS.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Crumbling services, but who’s in charge?
Hospital leaders have warned there is a lack of accountability in the NHS, adding this could undermine public and political trust in the service.
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News‘We are presiding over a failing NHS,’ say leading trust CEOs
A lack of accountability is causing the quality of NHS services to crumble, according to some of the most respected trust chief executives.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: 80pc of the elective challenge
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The 20 trusts with three quarters of the NHS's two year waiters
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The great follow-ups revolution
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.