Quality and Performance – Page 13
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News‘National improvement board’ to be set up by NHS England
NHS England has launched a new framework for quality improvement and delivery, including a national board that will pick a ‘small number of shared national priorities’.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Manchester must get a grip on electives
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentStill waiting for elective recovery
At least the underlying pressure on waiting times has stopped getting worse.
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NewsWatch: How Birmingham and Manchester developed the longest elective waits
HSJ has tracked acute trusts’ average waiting times since the start of the pandemic, revealing how the providers with the longest and shortest waits has changed.
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NewsCQC’s ICS ratings put on hold
Plans for integrated care systems to be given Care Quality Commission ratings are on hold, and no ratings will be issued until summer 2024 at the earliest, HSJ understands.
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HSJ LocalTwo ex-acute CEOs brought in to fix ICS’s elective problem
Two former acute trust CEOs have been brought in to help with the elective recovery in the integrated care system with the highest number of patients waiting a long time for treatment.
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NewsThousands of English NHS 999 calls answered in Wales
Thousands of 999 calls are being transferred to the Welsh Ambulance Service because they are taking more than five minutes to answer in England, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS warned ‘cramming’ A&Es with medics is not working
The NHS’s efforts to prop up emergency departments with thousands of additional medical staff has been the wrong approach to solving the crisis in these services, experts have argued.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentAnother record-breaking waiting list for England
The elective backlog recovery has not yet begun
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NewsFormer number one CEO called in by NHSE to help struggling trust
A former trust chief executive who led his organisation to two consecutive ‘outstanding’ ratings has been drafted in to help a trust hit by a maternity scandal and performance issues.
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NewsStaff survey: The best and worst ICBs
Which integrated care boards receive the highest recommendations from staff as a place to work? HSJ has analysed the full results of the 2022 NHS Staff Survey.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: All change for maternity transformation
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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NewsOutstanding trust handed warning notice
An ‘outstanding’ rated acute trust has been served a warning notice to make ‘significant and immediate improvements’ to the quality of care to people with mental health needs and learning disabilities.
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News‘We do not run our front door’, says CEO of ‘inadequate’ A&E
A trust whose A&E has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission has highlighted problems caused by an independent-sector run urgent treatment centre based at its emergency department.
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CommentElective waiting times rose sharply in December
The waiting time to diagnosis and decision has risen to more than 10 months
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NewsTrust leaders ‘welcome rigour’ of A&E target, says new NHSE director
Trust leaders have said they will welcome the ‘rigour’ of ‘a lot more focus’ on the four-hour A&E target nationally, alongside other indicators, NHS England’s new emergency care director told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalHarm caused by long cancer waits to be investigated by ICB
Commissioners have begun a ‘serious incident review’ across their integrated care system after early indications showed patients may have suffered harm due to long waits for cancer treatment.
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NewsParamedics not sent to quarter of urgent calls, admits trust
Some ambulance trusts are not sending paramedics to up to around a quarter of their most serious calls, according to figures obtained by HSJ.