All Productivity articles – Page 6
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NewsBriggs: NHS must stop 'leaking' money to private sector
Professor Tim Briggs says NHS must “drag back” private sector work More than 30 clinical projects to reduce unwarranted variation will report by December 2018 Professor Chris Ham calls Getting It Right First Time “a promising intervention” Professor Tim Briggs has said the NHS must stop “leaking” £1.4bn ...
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NewsTrusts and CCGs ordered to change logos by NHS England
Trust managers have condemned NHS England for ordering them to change their logos on signs and websites.
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News'Woefully short' NHS will miss forward view targets, report warns
New research raises fundamental questions about progress on productivity goals required by Five Year Forward View Kingsley Manning says “productivity is not a priority” at STP or trust level No STPs provide analysis of workforce productivity, report finds Lord Carter says progress is being made but “urgent” action is ...
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NewsExclusive: Huge expansion of scheme to cut NHS variation
Getting It Right First Time programme to reduce unwarranted variation in the NHS grows New specialities include acute and emergency medicine, cardiology, intensive care and mental health Clinical leads announced for 12 specialities currently in progress The Getting It Right First Time programme, designed to reduce unwarranted variation ...
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NewsRevealed: 23 trusts chosen for new Carter review
Twenty-three trusts selected for first phase of Lord Carter’s new review into productivity at mental health and community service organisations NHS Improvement letter to mental health and community service trusts reveals providers chosen for initial six month engagement phase Review will follow a similar structure to Lord Carter’s previous ...
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NewsExclusive: Trusts 'may overlook safety' under revised regulation regime
Patient groups have warned that providers would be “at risk of overlooking quality and safety” under proposed changes to the Care Quality Commission’s rating regime.
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HSJ LocalTrust launches scheme to cut NHS spending on lawyers
A mental health trust is preparing to launch a new legal services database that it expects to cut its spending on lawyers by 10 per cent.
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NewsExclusive: STPs forecast NHS will employ thousands fewer staff
The NHS’s unpublished proposals for dealing with extreme funding pressure suggest it will employ thousands fewer nurses and other staff in the next few years, and treat tens of thousands fewer emergency patients in hospital.
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NewsNHS efficiency league tables delayed
Lord Carter has restated intention to publish rankings to highlight trusts with high levels of waste and inefficiency Officials expected the rankings to be published earlier this year Metrics are reliant on the strength of “reference costs” data, for which widespread non-compliance has been found Expert says there is ...
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NewsMajor deal brings 'Amazon style' procurement to nearly 100 trusts
New procurement platform could be a major step towards creating a single procurement catalogue across the NHS Exclusive partnership deal struck between NHS Shared Business Services, which serves 87 NHS trusts, and retail technology firm Virtualstock System already implemented by Guy’s and St Thomas’ FT, which was highlighted in ...
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CommentIntelligent transparency: How to drive change in the NHS
A system dedicated to continuous improvement and learning towards patient well-being and safety is the key to a sustainable NHS
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CommentWe need emotional humans, not employee automatons
NHS staff need a sense of psychological safety in order to overcome the fear to question, take risks and fail
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How about some big action on data
The NHS must ensure that informatics’ potential for savings and productivity must be fulfilled quickly
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CommentCapitated budgets are a good deal for long term conditions
With the Year of Care capitation tariff attracting global interest, capitation budgets are becoming a mainstream need for seamless care of patients with long term conditions
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NewsTrusts must double efficiency savings to avoid 'crude rationing', report warns
New financial controls require 4 per cent efficiency savings from NHS providers, says Nuffield Trust report Savings of 2 per cent widely deemed to be realistic target for the sector, as outlined in Carter review Think tank warns of “crude rationing” to achieve savings required by 2020 NHS ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How much money is enough?
What are the biggest challenges in making the funding settlement work? This was the question tackled by our expert panel in a recent roundtable debate. Report by Alison Moore
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CommentPoor, ill and costing £33bn a year: we must mend this legacy
Structural changes in society with health as their focus would save many billions of pounds and be good for everyone - especially the most disadvantaged
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NewsRegulator will 'match-make' trusts that fail to consolidate back-office
NHS Improvement will start to “match-make” trusts that fail to consolidate their back-office services, its chief executive has said.
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CommentNHS funding: What the public thinks
Taking a look at people’s opinion on how the NHS should be tackling its funding problem and meeting performance targets
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CommentSeeing the bigger picture on digital imaging
The subtle shift from traditional histopathological techniques to their more sophisticated digital cousins brings challenges as well as benefits. Daloni Carlisle reports on one trust’s experience