All Performance articles – Page 78
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NewsPublic do not trust NHS with personal data, admits health secretary
The public do not trust the NHS to look after personal health information, the health secretary admitted at the HSJ annual lecture on Thursday evening.
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HSJ LocalAintree board backs proposal for Royal Liverpool merger
The board of Aintree University Hospital Foundation Trust has backed the recommendation of senior hospital consultants that it should pursue a merger with the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust.
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HSJ LocalTrust closes beds as chair warns it is 'becoming unviable clinically'
PERFORMANCE: A struggling acute trust plans to close beds because it is ‘becoming unviable clinically’ and is ‘unable to consistently and safely staff’ the number of beds currently open, its leadership team has said.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance trust leadership could face overhaul over delays
PERFORMANCE: The leadership of South East Coast Ambulance Foundation Trust could be replaced after Monitor found some patients were made to wait up to 10 minutes longer for an emergency response last winter.
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NewsHSJ annual lecture: Hunt promises new 'Ofsted style ratings' for CCGs
Ofsted style ratings are to be given to each area of the country for performance in a range of clinical areas including cancer, dementia and mental health, Jeremy Hunt will announce today at HSJ’s annual lecture.
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CommentAnalysis: When will England breach the 18 week target?
Forecasting is a tricky, uncertain business
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CommentNot enough is being done to reduce avoidable harm in the NHS
The NHS must learn about human factors
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NewsSouth West London refused entry to 'success regime'
South West London NHS organisations have asked to join the ‘success regime’, the national programme of directive support for struggling health economies, but have been turned down.
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HSJ LocalFailing FT needs 'long term partner', say regulators
PERFORMANCE: Regulators have said a failing foundation trust requires a ‘close tie-up with a long term partner’, after spending more than two years in special measures.
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NewsMonitor director: Using existing tech better could save trusts money
Trusts could save money by making better use of their existing technology, according to Monitor’s first executive director of provider sustainability.
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NewsExclusive: GP ‘scorecard’ would be 'divisive', says report
The use of single ‘scorecard’ type metrics for measuring performance in general practice would be misleading and divisive, a Department of Health commissioned report has concluded.
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NewsUpdated: Provider deficits swell to £930m in three months
The NHS provider sector has reported a combined deficit of £930m for the first three months of 2015-16, which is more than the entire deficit reported last year.
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NewsAmbulance response times and elective waiting list grow
Ambulance trusts are struggling to meet the target to get to a patient within eight minutes of an emergency call, the latest data from NHS England shows.
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HSJ LocalGeorge Eliot makes second attempt to recruit chief executive
WORKFORCE: A financially troubled West Midlands trust is looking to recruit a permanent chief executive after a previous attempt failed to attract a suitable candidate.
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NewsAnalysis: Acute trust stretch targets would cut deficit by only 16pc
The financial ‘stretch targets’ issued to acute NHS trusts would reduce their deficit by just 16 per cent, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsExclusive: Trusts continue to forecast £2bn deficit as overspending worsens
The latest available figures show the NHS acute sector continuing to forecast a deficit in excess of £2bn for this financial year. Trusts’ year to date financial performance is even worse than planned, HSJ analysis has found.
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HSJ PartnersThe CQC's rating of Addenbrooke's is wrong and unfair
The ‘inadequate’ rating is not accurate