All Quality and performance articles – Page 26
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NHS may ‘never catch up’ with surgery backlog caused by covid
Delays due to the covid-19 crisis have created tens of thousands of year-long waiters for ophthalmology treatment, and a surgery backlog which experts say may never be recovered.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: PM Johnson’s trajectory: from ‘croak us’ to ‘crocus’
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Jeremy Hunt’s safety programme has stalled, say bereaved families
Bereaved families have been left feeling like their efforts to improve patient safety have been ‘in vain’ as progress of a government programme instigated by Jeremy Hunt appears to have ‘stalled’.
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Updated: CEO’s email ‘contributed to low morale’ at covid-hit A&E
Staff at a hard-pressed accident and emergency department were left feeling demoralised and unsupported by the actions of the senior leadership team, the Care Quality Commission has found.
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Exclusive: Key NHS long-term plan target to be missed ‘due to covid’
The NHS is set to miss a major national target to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements within mental health by the end of March, HSJ can reveal.
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Retirees, long journeys and more day cases will aid elective return, say doctors
Hospitals may take until the summer to begin carrying out ‘normal’ levels of planned surgery and this is likely to require some patients being transferred to areas with greater capacity, doctors have said.
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Flu vaccine uptake lags last year at 43 trusts
More than 40 provider trusts have seen lower flu vaccine uptake so far in 2020-21 than in 2019-20, often citing covid and covid vaccination as a reason, despite a national push.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The waiting list won’t be 10 million by April — but it will take years to fix
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NHS England lead warns stroke improvements ‘stalled or deteriorated’
A key long-term plan commitment is expected to be missed, with the national clinical director warning many improvements in stroke patient care have stalled or slipped back.
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England set to see covid inpatients fall to pre-third wave level by 8 March
Deaths of covid positive hospital patients appear to have passed their third wave peak.
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HSJ Partners
Introducing respiratory support units in the NHS will transform respiratory care
Professor Jon Bennett shares his insights on respiratory support units and their potential to revolutionise acute respiratory care for patients
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Exclusive: NHS commandeers private hospitals in attempt to recover cancer surgery
‘Surge’ clauses allowing the NHS to again take over private hospitals — as it did in the spring — have been triggered in some areas, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The big suck
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Exclusive: Leaked data reveals nearly quarter of a million year-plus waiters
Nearly a quarter of a million people have been waiting more than a year for operations and other hospital procedures, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
The pandemic has broken the promise of universal healthcare
The promise of universal healthcare from the NHS has been broken, as it is not “coping” with covid-19, and will be hard to reinstate without being honest, writes Charlotte Augst
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Two hospitals ‘decanting’ to central London trust amid ‘extreme’ pressures
A pair of major London hospitals are decanting patients to central London sites as the region asks trusts to ‘super surge’ their critical care capacity, HSJ understands.
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Exclusive: Leak reveals urgent care patients face 30-hour waits because of covid pressures
Patients calling NHS 111 in London could face a 30-hour wait before being admitted to a hospital bed, the capital’s ambulance service has warned.
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Every NHS region sees April levels of covid inpatients as deaths start to rise again
All seven NHS England regions are now struggling under covid inpatient demand not seen since the peak of the pandemic in April.
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Hour-plus ambulance to A&E transfers double in a week
The number of ambulance handovers taking longer than an hour have almost doubled in just one week, the latest figures have revealed.
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NHS England reveals new measures to replace four-hour target
NHS England has begun consultation on replacing the four-hour accident and emergency target with what it calls a ‘sophisticated and patient-centred’ set of metrics covering both ambulance and in-hospital care.