All Performance articles – Page 98
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NewsWinter pressures monies fund extra admissions
Performance against the four hour accident and emergency target did not improve in 2013-14, despite a huge political focus on the issue, as emergency admissions reached record levels, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsStroke reconfiguration to be rolled out nationwide
NHS England is aiming to roll-out the London model of stroke reconfiguration on a nationwide basis, its updated business plan reveals.
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CommentAnother surprise rise in the English waiting list
The list isn’t supposed to grow in January
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NewsElective waiting list continues to grow
The size of the NHS waiting list for elective care grew in January, bucking the pattern of previous years where the number of patients waiting reduced during the month, according to latest figures for England.
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LeaderQuality pays – but it demands investment
Our awards highlight outstanding quality improvement
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CommentEliminating poor productivity is key to NHS improvement
Significant variations remain in the service
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LeaderWhy the NHS must learn to fail successfully
Policymakers are still looking for an effective failure regime
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NewsOmbudsman: 'Lack of openness and honesty' at Morecambe Bay
A “lack of openness and honesty” at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust caused further distress for a family which had lost a child, a watchdog has concluded.
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LeaderReasons for celebration and caution over waiting lists
Some trusts are victims of their own success
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NewsAnalysis: Flat waiting list bucks seasonal trend
The national elective waiting list hovered just below 3 million throughout the autumn – in defiance of the seasonal pattern seen in recent years – in one of the clearest indications so far of the pressure on the acute sector.
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NewsNAO: Monitor delivers 'value for money'
Monitor’s capacity to regulate foundation trusts in difficulty may come under “unsustainable pressure” due to the growth in risk across the sector, the National Audit Office has found.
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BlogsScottish waiting times still worsening
Waiting times are getting worse in Scotland, but you wouldn’t know it from the government’s press release.
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NewsHospital death data 'distraction'
Questions have been raised over the value of mortality statistics published for NHS hospitals, after an academic taking part in a review of their use branded them “spurious” and said the public would be better off ignoring them.
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NewsFoundation trusts overspend on agency staff
The foundation trust sector massively overspent on contract and agency staff in the final three months of last year, Monitor data shows.
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NewsChildren 'treated on adult wards'
Hundreds of children with mental health problems are being treated on adult psychiatric wards, the BBC has reported.
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CommentThe friends and family test is much more than a target
The survey can bring the NHS into the 21st century
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BlogsCQC to improve referral to treatment monitoring
The CQC are improving their 18-weeks monitoring. It still isn’t perfect, but that may not be entirely their fault.
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NewsAmbulance 'postcode lottery' costing lives
About 2,500 lives a year are being lost due to a “postcode lottery” in how ambulances respond to heart attack patients, a former service boss has claimed.
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HSJ LocalNew review of children's heart surgery in Bristol
The chair of the high profile public inquiry into paediatric heart surgery in Bristol is to lead a new review into the deaths of a number of children with heart problems at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust.