All Performance articles – Page 101
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NewsData video: the growing QIPP shortfall explained
Commissioners are slipping behind on their efficiency plans
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NewsMap to expose dementia care gaps
Significant gaps in care for dementia sufferers will be exposed by an interactive online map being published by the government as part of a bid to improve the way they are treated by the NHS.
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HSJ Local
UHBristol fails cancer target after 'service swap'
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust failed the 62 day cancer target after it ceased to provide breast and urology services.
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NewsLung cancer care delays revealed
Almost half of lung cancer patients have experienced delays at some stage of their care, according to a new report.
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NewsCCGs lobby for access to safety incidents data
Clinical commissioning groups in the North of England are lobbying for direct access to information submitted by their providers to the national database of patient safety incidents, HSJ has learned.
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NewsManagers to face 'direct consequences' for failure
Senior NHS managers including chief executives could have their contracts linked to their organisation’s performance in the new Care Quality Commission ratings.
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Blogs
Long-waits soar in Scotland
Scotland is achieving its main waiting times targets. Yet long-waits are soaring.
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NewsRCS calls for urgent Welsh hospitals probe
The Royal College of Surgeons has called for an urgent review of all hospitals in Wales amid “public anxiety” over standards of NHS care.
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NewsSerco seeks NHS help to fill vacancies
Outsourcing giant Serco has asked NHS organisations for help filling vacancies at Suffolk Community Healthcare amid concerns over its performance.
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: September 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one year waits, with links to all the detail by organisation.
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Blogs
Waiting times steady in September
The position on English waiting times remained steady in September. But nearly half the country’s one year waiters were reported at just one hospital.
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NewsGovernment urged to drop barring scheme
A group set up by the government has urged ministers to consider dropping its plan to set up a barring scheme for NHS managers guilty of misconduct, HSJ has learned.
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NewsIntermediate care provision 'stuck', DH director admits
Intermediate care is under pressure with demand outstripping capacity, according to a national audit by a group of leading healthcare organisations.
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NewsPM focused on A&E winter measures
Downing Street has confirmed that David Cameron is getting personally involved in overseeing the NHS’s response to expected pressures on casualty departments in England this winter.
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Blogs
Vote of confidence
Complaints, as we all know, are taken extremely seriously in the NHS as they are a valuable and cherished source of information from the people who matter most.So we were intrigued to read the Department of Health’s latest report on complaints it has dealt with over the past few years.In ...
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NewsA&E units 'facing worst winter yet'
Accident and emergency departments in the NHS are facing what may be “our worst winter yet” due to a combination of soaring demand, a shortage of doctors and “toxic” overcrowding on hospital wards, a senior consultant has warned.
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Blogs
Change the 'delay, deny, defend' complaints culture
A new report following the failings of Mid Staffs should force NHS organisations to confront patient complaints
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NewsMore emergency departments breach waiting time targets
Increasing numbers of accident and emergency patients are being treated outside the maximum four hour wait year on year over the past four summers, an HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsCancer survival rate highlighted
Cancer patients living in the most deprived parts of England are a third less likely to be alive five to 10 years after diagnosis than those in the most affluent areas.
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NewsHealth board IT failure looked at
Computer problems which seriously disrupted hospitals in a major health board area for two days at the beginning of October are now being investigated.