All Quality and performance articles – Page 34
-
News
NHS declares victory on MRSA and takes fight to E coli
Trusts and clinical commissioning groups face new annual targets designed to combat rising levels of four bloodstream infections, but sanctions relating to MRSA and C difficile could be scrapped.
-
News
Record collapse in emergency care performance
The NHS saw a record decline in emergency care performance during the last three months, official data published today reveals.
-
Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Don’t waste the SDEC opportunity
HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing is our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
-
News
Staff allege ‘active deception of CQC’
Staff at a mental health provider complained about a “cover up culture” where allegations of poor care and abusive behaviour were concealed by falsifying records, a new report reveals.
-
News
Royal college tells trust to tackle ‘dysfunction’
A world-famous specialist hospital has been told it must address “the current dysfunctional relationship” between the surgeons in one of its teams.
-
News
Official figures ‘deceptive’ on intensive care pressures, doctors warn
Intensive care units are under far greater pressure than is reflected by NHS England’s official data with many trusts already recording 100 per cent bed occupancy, specialty leaders have warned.
-
News
Trust told to do harm reviews after patients drop off waiting list
A trust has been told to carry out harm reviews on 74 patients who disappeared from a waiting list after they could not be found an appointment slot.
-
News
‘Concern’ over Cornish patients’ long journeys for cardiology treatment
A commissioner’s elective lead has raised concerns about the distance cardiology patients face travelling for treatment.
-
News
Exclusive: Trial A&E target ‘driving completely the wrong behaviours’
A new accident and emergency target which could be introduced early next year is “driving completely the wrong behaviours”, senior clinicians have told HSJ.
-
News
Trusts told to create ‘dedicated A&E space’ for mental health patients
Every emergency department in London has been advised to create “dedicated space” to care for three mental health patients, due to concerns over long waiting times for people in crisis.
-
HSJ Interactive
Roundtable: Cutting waiting times for cancer
An HSJ and GenesisCare roundtable discussed how the personalised approach increasingly applied to cancer treatments also needs to be applied to cancer waits. By Claire Read
-
News
Major teaching trust lifted out of special measures
The Care Quality Commission has recommended a major teaching hospital trust, which once faced losing its heart surgery service following significant discord among its staff, be taken out of special measures.
-
HSJ Local
Growing waits at major teaching trust worry commissioners
The number of patients waiting more than a year for elective treatment at a major London teaching hospital has ballooned over the past 12 months.
-
News
Trust blasted for ignoring coroner’s warnings on ‘unnecessary’ transfers
A coroner has criticised a hospital trust for “effectively ignoring” its own policies on transferring patients between hospitals, despite assuring her the issue would be addressed after earlier deaths.
-
News
Controversial stroke plans delayed
A controversial reconfiguration of stroke services in Kent and Medway will be delayed by over a year, regardless of whether an ongoing court case forces NHS organisations to change their current plans.
-
HSJ Local
Regulator criticised system’s leaders for ‘critical incident’ response
An NHS England/Improvement regional manager has reported “serious concern” about the handling of a “critical incident”, in which an entire health economy was subjected to extreme operational pressure, HSJ can reveal.
-
News
Third of teaching trust’s elective patients waiting more than 18 weeks
A teaching trust’s referral-to-treatment performance has slumped 20 percentage points in the last two years as demand has soared.
-
Comment
The grim reality of migraine care in the UK
The NHS long-term plan does not even once mention migraine but the condition causes an estimated 25 million days lost from work and school in the UK each year, writes Gus Baldwin
-
News
Hospital trust criticised for ‘intolerable’ waits and failure to learn from deaths
An independent review into mortality has exposed serious workforce problems and a failure to learn from deaths at a hospital trust.
-
News
Norovirus closes 1,100 hospital beds as flu arrives early
Hospitals in England have been forced to close more than 1,100 hospital beds over the last week because of norovirus — almost double the number than during the same period last year.