All Performance articles – Page 72
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NewsExclusive: Regulators reveal conditions on £1.8bn 'sustainability' fund
In a document sent to trust finance directors, trusts are told their quarterly financial targets will be a “binary on/off switch” to secure STF funding. 70 per cent of its STF allocation will depend on hitting financial target, while 30 per cent will depend on performance against the headline ...
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NewsNew Oxford Hospitals chief reveals delayed transfers turnaround
The chief executive of one of England’s top teaching hospitals has set out how it halved its stubbornly high rate of delayed transfers, after introducing a set of reforms including directly employing social care workers. Bruno Holthof, who joined Oxford University Hospitals in October, also set out his vision for ...
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catch Up: Provider sector deficit, and a reorganised DH
Your essential update on the week in health
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HSJ LocalLincolnshire sets out plans to tackle £60m deficit and performance
RECONFIGURATION: NHS leaders in Lincolnshire will go out to public consultation later this year over plans to radically overhaul key services.
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NewsTrusts could be graded on agency spend in new performance framework
NHS Improvement consulting on single performance framework for foundation trusts and non-FTs Agency spending among proposed measures in finance and governance categories Trusts would be banded into four grades NHS Improvement is consulting on a new performance framework that would see foundation trusts and NHS trusts subject to ...
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CommentA new way forward for disciplinaries: the whistleblower's view
A senior NHS HR director and a sacked whistleblower join forces to make the case for reform
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CommentA new way forward for disciplinaries: the HR director's view
The NHS’s means of dealing with disciplinary problems is outdated, contradictory and dangerous. Here Dean Royles offers his proposals for reform
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NewsTroubled CCGs spent hundreds of thousands on interim directors
CCGs in legal directions have each spent hundreds of thousands of pounds turnaround directors and other senior roles NHS England served directions to a number of CCGs in 2015-16 Groups say they have to appoint executives quickly as part of process NEW Devon spent £335,000 on off-payroll turnaround director ...
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HSJ LocalCCG 'disappointed' to be given legal directions by NHS England
PERFORMANCE: A London clinical commissioning group has become the second CCG to be given legal directions by NHS England this year, over waiting times performance in its health economy.
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HSJ LocalHospital checking hundreds of patient scans after locum error
PATIENT EXPERIENCE: Hundreds of CT scans are being re-examined at a hospital in Yorkshire after concerns were raised about a series of significant reporting errors.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Suspension, validation and a surprise admonishment
What is going on in England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentSpecialised services can blaze the trail for provider-led change
Andrew Wilkinson on the challenges that need to be faced to determine the success of specialised services in commissioning
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HSJ LocalCQC warns major teaching hospital over 'unnecessary risk' to patients
PERFORMANCE: A leading teaching hospital has been served with a warning notice by the CQC.
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CommentThree versions of the NHS: I know which one I'd choose
The most advanced of the new care models promises transformational change
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HSJ LocalTeaching hospital discovers dozens of year-plus waiters
PATIENT EXPERIENCE: Imperial College Healthcare Trust has declared 47 patients who have waited more than a year for elective treatment, latest board papers reveal.
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NewsAnalysis: The trusts where patient experience declined the most last year
HSJ analysis identifies the trusts which saw the biggest net deterioration year on year in patient experience survey Chesterfield Royal Hospital FT had the most deteriorated question scores in the adult inpatient survey 2015 HSJ analysis has identified the trusts which saw the biggest net deterioration year on ...
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HSJ Local'Highly unsatisfactory' ambulance trust braced for tough CQC report
PERFORMANCE: An ambulance trust is braced for a highly critical inspection report and possible regulatory action after initial feedback highlighted serious failings and a lack of accountability in the organisation.
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HSJ LocalNHS England steps in at London CCG over elective performance
HSJ understands directions to be placed on Havering CCG by NHS England NHS England wants to see improvement in the elective waiting times across the three outer London boroughs Move follows CCGs backing down in face of challenge from private provider PERFORMANCE: A London clinical commissioning group is ...
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NewsFenwick fears running a chain would take his 'eye off the ball'
Sir Leonard Fenwick worried that hospital chain would mean taking his “eye of the ball” of Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust Longest serving NHS chief executive attributes outstanding rating to “good relationship with staff” Newcastle being “brought back into the fold” to help with “salvage” of North Cumbria ...
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HSJ LocalShelford Group trust rated 'good' across the board
PERFORMANCE: A Shelford Group trust has achieved a good rating in all five domains of its Care Quality Commission inspection.