All Performance articles – Page 80
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CommentEngland breaches 18 week target
If you take non-reporting trusts into account, it looks like the English NHS breached 18 weeks in October – for the first time since the target was originally achieved in January 2012
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NewsFour-fifths of areas expect to miss BCF targets, survey finds
Survey of finance leaders finds 80 per cent do not expect to hit better care fund performance targets “Unrealistic expectations” attached to the fund are “giving integration a bad name” Some areas had not set up pooled budgets halfway through 2015-16 New calls for bureaucracy to be simplified ...
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NewsWarning A&Es will 'fly blind' with less performance data this winter
NHS England winter daily situation reports will not include key performance data Royal College of Emergency Medicine president says “somebody has decided to glaze over the windscreen” NHS England says less weekly data will “minimise the bureaucratic burden on frontline hospitals and GPs” NHS England will not publish ...
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HSJ LocalStaff felt 'failure was not an option' at specialist trust
“Inhibited” culture among trust leadership, independent review into referral to treatment waiting times finds Staff said they felt “failure was not an option” Monitor’s investigation into patients waiting too long for treatment is ongoing PERFORMANCE: A “pressurised” culture at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Trust led ...
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NewsMapped: More than half of providers missing emissions targets
Less than half of NHS providers are on track to meet carbon reduction targets enshrined in law.
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NewsGovernment wants 'long term partnerships' between NHS and private sector
Spending review calls for “long term partnerships” between NHS and private sector on new care models and diagnostics Involvement could follow the model of a PET-CT scanning contract awarded this year Private sector could offer capacity and finance in return for a share in any improvements made The ...
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NHS providers' half-year deficit hits £1.6bn
NHS providers post £1.6bn deficit for first half of 2015-16 First official confirmation that sector deficit is on course to top £2bn Regulators hopeful year-end figure can be improved NHS providers recorded a £1.6bn deficit for the first half of the financial year and were forecasting a £2.2bn ...
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NewsDelayed transfers of care at highest ever September level
There were 147,738 delayed transfers, the highest September level since 2010 A&Es had their worst September performance in five years as admissions were at highest level Increase in elective patients waiting over a year to start treatment but the target was still met Delayed transfers of care were ...
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NewsFour things we learnt at NHS Providers 2015
Take away messages from this year’s NHS Providers conference
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NewsExclusive: Existing NHS indicators deemed inadequate for vanguards
First version of vanguard dashboard contains just two metrics Many existing data returns are not suitable for measuring integrated care New measures will be developed over the coming months National leaders have judged many current datasets to be inadequate in their current form to judge the success of ...
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NewsTrusts urged to defer capital spending in exchange for revenue cash
Providers asked to repay public dividend capital to the DH, in return for revenue support Monitor and the TDA have been phoning providers on behalf of the department Believed to be first time systematic capital to revenue transfers have potentially happened at local level Further details have emerged ...
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NewsMackey: Regulatory duties must not stop NHS Improvement helping trusts
NHS Improvement will have an “accountability edge and a regulatory edge”, says Jim Mackey Chief executive says more can be done to make competition a driver of improvement Trusts that are “quite close” to FT authorisation should be allowed to finish process The regulatory duties of NHS Improvement ...
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NewsExclusive: Mackey backs calls for reduced savings target
Jim Mackey says an efficiency factor of 2 per cent is “closer to what’s doable” in 2016-17 NHS Improvement chief says there’s a need to make savings targets “challenging but within reach” He hopes to “be clear” by end of the month about package of measures to help bring provider ...
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NewsMonitor chief warns: Providers can’t bear more than 2pc savings
David Bennett has warned that NHS providers have little scope to get their deficit below £2bn in 2015-16, and that national bodies must ensure tariff prices for next year impose a savings requirement of no more than 2 per cent.
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NewsTrust chiefs warn bed occupancy already at winter levels
Bed occupancy in acute trusts is already at the most pressured winter levels, trust chief executives and directors have told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalControversial ambulance delay pilot may have contributed to patient death
Commissioners warned that a controversial South East Coast Ambulance Foundation Trust pilot that added 10 minutes to some emergency response times may have contributed to the death of at least one patient, leaked emails seen by HSJ reveal.
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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.