All Performance articles – Page 106
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HSJ Local
Twenty cancer wait breaches at Mid Yorks
PERFORMANCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has had 20 breaches of the 62 day cancer referral to treatment target in January.
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HSJ Local
Patient record hitches lead to delays for cancer patients at Rotherham
Cancer patients faced delays in hospital appointments because of issues implementing an electronic patient record system at Rotherham Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire ambulance service highlights patients late for travel
PERFORMANCE: Patients who require non-emergency transport to hospital with Yorkshire Ambulance Service often arrive early or late for their appointments.
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CommentNicholson and Dacre are two of an autocratic kind
Sir David was more persuasive on organisational issues than personal ones
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HSJ Local
Northern Lincolnshire FT instigates external 'sustainability and quality' review
A foundation trust whose high mortality rates are under review has hired consultants to examine “the sustainability and quality” of its clinical services.
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Comment
NHS productivity: more of the same or more for less?
More thought and action is required to improve
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CommentFrancis and funding: an explanation for ‘failing’ hospitals
Excess mortality is rooted in funding
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NewsNicholson faces 'silent protest' outside board meeting
Health campaigners who are demanding that senior managers are held to account for the Stafford Hospital “disaster” will on Thursday step up their calls for the resignation of Sir David Nicholson.
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HSJ Local
High bed occupancy may cost Humber FT
PERFORMANCE: Low rates of bed occupancy in forensic units could lead to financial penalties for Humber Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Transfers of care improvement at Cumbria
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care in Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust have plummeted from a high of 8.6 per cent in October to just 3.1 per cent in December.
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HSJ Local
South Tees missed four hour target in December
PERFORMANCE: A combination of pressures meant that the South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust missed the four hour A&E target in December. With only 91.6 per cent of patients discharge or admitted within that time, the trust failed the Monitor target for quarter three and now has an amber-green rating.
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HSJ Local
West Suffolk hospital A&E waiting times a ‘concern’
PERFORMANCE West Suffolk hospital’s performance against the four-hour waiting time remains “a concern”, according to commissioners.
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Blogs
Your 18-week waits: December 2012 data
Interactive maps showing where the long-wait pressures are, for NHS and independent sector providers and for commissioners.
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Blogs
Putting on wait: English waiting list looking big
Some waiting times figures got a bit better in December, some a bit worse. But the size of the waiting list is starting to look worryingly big.
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NewsAnalysis: Francis calls for deceleration of drive towards all-FT NHS
Robert Francis QC has called for a further deceleration of the drive for all NHS providers to become foundation trusts, in order to ensure trusts completing the process are safe.
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NewsCalls for action to tackle sharp rise in emergency readmissions
Campaigners have called for renewed efforts to tackle inappropriate discharges after new analysis found the number of elderly patients requiring emergency readmission to hospital had nearly doubled in the past decade.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle Hospitals records disappointing rise in falls
PERFORMANCE: A ‘disappointing’ rise in the number of falls compared with last year has led to Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust introducing a monthly audit of at risk patients.
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Blogs
'18-weeks' penalties change again: this time it's good
At last: instead of punishing hospitals for treating their long-waiters, the latest NHS Contract prevents long-wait backlogs from building up in the first place.
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Blogs
Commissioning board changes '18-week wait' penalties
The NHS Commissioning Board has made a small, but significant and welcome, change to the penalties for breaching 18-week waits.
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HSJ KnowledgeHave we improved access to mental health services?
Analysing the success of the IAPT programme