All Quality and performance articles – Page 64
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: More than 800 patients waiting over a year at one trust
Poor waiting list management led to “dangerous” failures and 814 patients waiting more than a year for an outpatient appointment at a London teaching trust, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Children potentially exposed to severe harm after waiting list blowout
Four children were potentially exposed to severe harm after delays in their treatment, as dozens have been on a surgery waiting list for more than a year.
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News
Shortlist for HSJ Awards 2017 revealed
The shortlist for the HSJ Awards 2017 has been announced.
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News
A&E scorecard plan replaced by patient flow dashboard
NHS Improvement has dropped plans to rank trusts on an accident and emergency “scorecard” and instead launched a performance data “dashboard” to help trusts better identify patient flow bottlenecks and share best practice.
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HSJ Local
Trust leaders told reputation at risk if 'poor' A&E fails to improve
A trust with a new £48m emergency department has been ordered to urgently improve by NHS Improvement after recording some of the country’s worst A&E performance figures.
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News
Daily Insight: Shrinking deficit or history repeating?
The must read stories and debate in healthcare
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News
GPs ordered to give appointment data to national bodies as winter looms
NHS England has ordered the national collection of future GP appointment data for the first time, as part of its preparations for looming winter pressures.
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News
Revealed: The NHS trusts falling well short of financial plans
Several acute trusts have fallen significantly short of their three month financial target, while dozens more are relying on heavily backloaded savings plans to deliver their year end plans.
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Comment
What your commute can teach you about performance targets
Rob Findlay and Mike Davidge on how your journey to work demonstrates the difference between ‘common cause’ and ‘special cause’
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News
Exclusive: NHS trusts branding care staff as 'advanced nurses'
Unregistered care assistants are working in the NHS with job titles describing them as nurses with advanced skills, new research has revealed.
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HSJ Local
Trust chief outlines plans for A&E performance 'surge'
The chief executive of a major acute hospital trust has outlined a series of actions being taken to turnaround the trust’s poor accident and emergency performance.
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News
Revealed: New national plan to bring down child mortality rates
The way child deaths are investigated in England is to be overhauled following failure to consistently investigate them and share learning across the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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News
Updated: The NHS trusts with the highest DTOC rates
The NHS is unlikely to meet a government target to cut delayed transfers of care to 3.5 per cent of its overall 131,000 bed base by next month, analysis of official data published today suggests.
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HSJ Local
'Sobering' CQC report exposes multiple failings at hospital trust
Inspectors have highlighted a string of failings at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust, including two patients who should have been placed on specialist wards dying after staff failed to recognise their needs.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: NHS funding could get beyond desperate
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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News
NHS managers think admitting mistakes is wrong, says PHSO
Senior leaders in the NHS have believed owning up to mistakes was not the right thing to do for too long, the new health service ombudsman has told HSJ.
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News
Kirkup: Divisive debate on midwifery could harm babies
The chair of the Morecambe Bay inquiry has warned the polarised debate around ‘natural’ childbirth could harm safe care for mothers and babies.
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News
Analysis: NHS staff report fewer serious mistakes but overall errors rise
The number of serious mistakes causing harm to patients reported by NHS staff has fallen significantly over the last four years, despite a rise in the total number of incidents.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Thousands of patients put at risk after waiting list blunders
An acute hospital trust has launched a review of its patient records after external advisers warned thousands of people may have been put at risk of clinical harm due to missed follow-up appointments.
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News
More CCGs given NHS England legal directions
Three clinical commissioning groups has been given legal directions from NHS England amid ongoing financial difficulties, including one CCG involved in a major merger.