Quality and Performance – Page 19
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Why the NHS isn’t sending more patients private
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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News
Bullying and harassment ‘normalised’ at trust put back in special measures
An ambulance trust has been placed in special measures after the Care Quality Commission rated its leadership ‘inadequate’ and said staff felt unable to raise concerns without fear of reprisal
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News
GP funding formula set for change, says NHSE director
NHS England’s medical director for primary care has promised reform of GP funding allocations as part of contract renegotiations.
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HSJ Local
Trust chief: Manager ‘bootcamps’ helped eliminate two-year waiters
The chief executive of one of the first teaching trusts in the country to have eliminated two-year waiters for elective care has said there is ‘no magic to it’ and it can be replicated elsewhere.
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News
Trust’s improvement plan ‘limited in robustness’
A trust’s attempts to improve safeguarding – believed to have been prompted by a case where a patient with dementia was restrained and forcibly treated – have been criticised by an independent review.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: Trust in talks to hire staff from 'game-changing' centre
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Neurological care is being rationed unfairly
Georgina Carr speaks about the lack of access and planning in neurological care within the NHS and emphasises the need to build on existing initiatives
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News
NHSE urges system leaders to ‘understand’ primary care in their areas
An NHS England director has urged integrated care system leaders to better understand primary care in their areas.
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News
Primary care networks must become ‘neighbourhood teams’, says review for NHSE
All primary care networks should evolve into ‘integrated neighbourhood teams’ in a bid to improve services, an NHS England review into the ‘next steps’ for primary care has said.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: 80pc of the elective challenge
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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News
Intensive care units for children not meeting standards, says NHSE report
Three intensive care units for children are not meeting standards for co-located services, a national report has found.
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Comment
The NHS is lagging in the restoration of fertility services
The fertility sector is almost back to pre-pandemic treatment levels but Julia Chain warns of its aftershocks and urges action to keep patients’ dreams alive
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News
Specialist hospital threatened with closure over unsafe wards
A specialist hospital for people with a learning difficulty or autism could be closed unless it makes improvements, the Care Quality Commission has warned.
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News
NHS England ends covid ‘command and control’ measures
The NHS threat level in response to covid-19 has been downgraded following drops in community cases and hospital inpatient numbers, NHS England chiefs have announced.
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News
Cancer recovery target will be missed, says national leader
The NHS will miss its target to return cancer treatment waits to pre-covid levels by next March, a national cancer leader has said.
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News
Exclusive: Patient waited 24 hours in ambulance for A&E
Nearly 600 patients waited 10 hours or more in the back of an ambulance to be transferred into emergency departments last month – with one taking 24 hours, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Revealed: Secret stats show A&E crisis four times as bad as official numbers
New figures leaked to HSJ show the true volume of 12-hour waiters in emergency departments is more than four times as high as official statistics suggest.
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News
Two-year waiters fall 20pc in a month
The number of two-year waiters fell by 20 per cent in the month to 1 May, but remained above 10,000, according to provisional data.
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News
Tougher cancer target considered by ministers
Government is considering setting a tougher cancer diagnostic target as part of its declared ‘war on cancer’, HSJ has been told.
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Comment
What the NHS can learn from low-income countries
The NHS can learn from other healthcare organisations and systems of middle- and low-income countries as it forms its new local systems and tries to engage communities and partners more effectively. By Nigel Crisp