All Performance articles – Page 25
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NewsInflux of very low risk referrals sparks review of cancer services
NHS England is in talks about changing a pathway for women with breast problems after performance against the two-week target for them to be seen plummeted.
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NewsExclusive: Patients declining two dates could be struck from waiting lists
Patients face being removed from the NHS waiting list if they decline two dates offered to them for their treatment, new internal guidance seen by HSJ reveals.
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Comment'Learning systems' can help get the NHS off its knees
Giving providers digital tools and technologies to resolve challenges within the health system is a possible approach for embedding learning and improvement into the process of delivering healthcare. By Nell Thornton-Lee, Tom Hardie and Tim Horton
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NewsCost of living crisis stoking appetite for ‘co-ordinated’ NHS strikes, warn trust CEOs
The cost of living crisis is increasing the chance of strikes by NHS staff this winter, fear trust chief executives, who are also concerned there are “increasing numbers of staff… unable to afford to work” in the service.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Will NHSE ever kill off the four-hour target?
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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NewsCoffey accused of leaving NHS ‘in limbo’ on A&E target
The four-hour emergency care target is ‘not the right answer’ long term, but services have been left ‘in limbo’ by Therese Coffey’s promise that it will no longer be scrapped, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said.
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CommentThe cost of living crisis is a health emergency too
Author David Finch highlights the relationship between the increasing costs of living and deteriorating public health in the UK – and the action that the government could take.
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News‘Four-hour rush’ continuing at top A&Es
Hospital trusts are still treating many patients just before the four-hour A&E target deadline, whose proposed abolition was reversed by government yesterday, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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NewsCoffey promises ‘absolutely no changes to four-hour A&E target’
Therese Coffey has pledged there will be no changes to the four-hour target for A&E waiting times – despite NHS England’s prolonged bid to axe the controversial measure.
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HSJ Local‘Broken’ health system failing to tackle ‘unsustainable’ emergency care pressures
An integrated care system which has some of England’s worst waiting times for emergency care lacks “delivery structure and processes” to make desperately needed improvements, according to an external report.
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CommentThe seemingly fair principle that is driving NHS inequality
Co-authors Sally Gainsbury and Polly Mitchell highlight the need to tackle the “first come, first served” reality in the health service.
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CommentDo ICSs face an impossible task?
ICSs can help foster collaboration between partners to offer new solutions to entrenched problems while on the flipside they also face risks in how they respond to national asks. By Anna Charles
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NewsHospital picks new private partner after firm’s sudden liquidation
An integrated trust has appointed a new provider of its diagnostic centre following the collapse of Rutherford Health in June.
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CommentOptometry has a critical part to play in tackling the NHS backlog
Community optometrists can provide an immediate solution to the backlog in hospital eye departments, but only if there is a sustained NHS commitment towards true integration into the primary healthcare family, writes Adam Sampson
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CommentHas the growth in medical consultants outstripped need?
The specialty reports reference international benchmarking data to argue the need for more of everyone, illustrates Dr Nadeem Moghal
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NewsNHS cuts 18-month waits but concerns over key target remain
NHS trusts again recorded a month-on-month reduction in the number of patients waiting over 78 weeks for treatment, although the flagship target to eliminate this cohort by March remains a tall order, with winter pressures set to crank up.
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NewsServing NHSE director joins trust board
A senior NHS England figure has been appointed as a non-executive director at a struggling acute trust.
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NewsRevealed: Long-wait cancer patient list grows again
The backlog of urgent cancer referral patients who have waited 104 days or more for treatment has increased month-on-month again, internal NHS data reveals.
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NewsHospital CEOs will get ‘fair’ treatment over ambulance delays, says Barclay
Health secretary Steve Barclay says trust chief executives should be held accountable for ambulance handover delays in a ‘fair’ way that recognises factors outside their control.
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CommentThe NHS's approach to reducing elective waiting times is unlikely to work
Trying to eliminate cohorts of waiting list patients is too simplistic says Rob Findlay