All Performance articles – Page 44
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HSJ Local
Midlands trust fights to ‘preserve’ elective work amid covid bed closures
Covid’s second surge has begun disrupting elective care at hospitals outside the north west, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Bed constraints start to bite
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Has covid changed the NHS forever?
To mark one year of the HSJ Health Check podcast we’re joined by special guest Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, who shares his expert insight on the biggest operational, cultural and strategic changes the NHS has gone through during the pandemic.
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Comment
10 pc of elective patients treated in August had waited 10 months or more
More and more waiting lists are disappearing into the 52-week-plus category, notes Rob Findlay
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News
NHS England claims victory on early ‘recovery’ target
New figures show the NHS has hit a key target for recovering activity, but questions remain about whether it can continue to increase despite infection control and rising covid cases.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Liberating local leaders for wave two
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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News
NHS England will ‘trust local leaders’ to handle second wave, says chief
There will be more regional flexibility in managing NHS services in coming months than during the spring covid-19 peak, NHS England’s deputy chief executive has said, promising to ‘trust our local leaders to do the right thing’.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: ‘Fearlessly and with common sense’
Andy Cowper on government’s ‘live without fear’ chants and the Test and Trace delivery status thus far.
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News
Discharge rates slowing as providers face ‘perfect storm’
Providers are beginning to see a slowing in the rate of patient discharges, in what would be another element of the ‘perfect storm’ they face this winter, leaders have warned.
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News
‘Radical’ expansion of diagnostic capacity urgently needed, claims NHSE report
The NHS must make ‘radical changes’ to transform its diagnostics capacity, which was close to ‘tipping point’ even before the pandemic, a major report has found.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery watch: Let’s drop the ‘near normal’ pretence
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Simon Says
This week the team delves into an exclusive HSJ summit interview with NHS chief executive Simon Stevens and weighs up the trade-offs the health service might need to make as covid cases rise, why legislation is still expected next year and why no comment on NHS finances could be significant. ...
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News
Exclusive: Leaked data gives first view of growing cancer waiting list post covid peak
Official data from mid-September shows that nearly 6,400 people had waited more than 100 days following a referral to cancer services.
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News
Leading trust chief brands NHSE’s new financial regime as ‘very risky’
A leading chief executive has described NHS England’s major changes to the financial architecture as ‘very risky’, amid a number of wider concerns from local leaders.
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HSJ Local
Leading CEO calls for national funding as mental health referrals predicted to rise by one third
A prominent trust chief has called for national support and “parity” for mental health as a new analysis suggests demand for services will increase by almost a third.
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News
Sharp rise in kids with covid symptoms as schools reopen
The beginning of September has seen a sharp uptick in children presenting with potential covid-19 symptoms to NHS 111 and 999, just as schools reopened.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: What constitutes a successful winter this year?
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: ‘Top tranche’ theory trumps reality in H*nc*ckl*nd
Andy Cowper sheds light on the performace of SAS test and trace as it fails to meet 46 per cent of the targets set.
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News
Patients don’t feel safe in A&E, research finds
Visiting A&E or relatives is considered much riskier than attending hospital for other reasons, according to the first in-depth piece of research into the subject.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery watch: the NHS’ biggest restoration challenge
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.