Quality and performance – Page 15
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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.
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NewsNHSE rejects ‘unacceptable’ ICS deficit
NHS England has expressed ‘significant disappointment’ over the finances of an integrated care system and extended its regime of ‘mandated oversight’.
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NewsNHSE launches new intervention regime for worst A&E performers
NHS England has revealed a new intervention regime, as it seeks to deliver on its new urgent and emergency care recovery plan.
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NewsNew A&E target branded ‘extremely unambitious’
The new national target to see 76 per cent of A&E patients within four hours by March 2024 has been described as ‘extremely unambitious’ by senior emergency clinicians.
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NewsICS cancels four urgent treatment centre contracts after performance concerns
An integrated care system has terminated a private provider’s contract to run four urgent treatment centres following performance concerns, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTrust spends £3m on B&B rooms for patients stuck in hospital
A mental health trust has spent millions this year on places in ‘bed and breakfast’ accommodation in order to discharge inpatients, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Ministers hold ICSs’ feet to the fire
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsFour urgent care centres in one ICS placed in special measures
The Care Quality Commission has placed the four urgent treatment centres run by a private provider in a single system into special measures.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Discharge delays trigger ministerial phone calls
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsNHSE reveals new A&E waiting time goal
NHS England is handing trusts a new target to see 76 per cent of accident and emergency patients within four hours by the end of 2023-24.
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CommentThe three lessons from history that can help the NHS cut the elective backlog
The King’s Fund published its study of strategies to tackle high waiting times in the past, which offers hope for bringing down the backlog. Shilpa Ross and Nicola Blythe highlight few factors from this research that would help the NHS meet the national average waiting time
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HSJ LocalChiefs warn national visits are stretching trust’s resources ‘thinly’
Many visits by national leaders are stretching resources ‘thinly’ at one of England’s most under pressure trusts, its leaders have warned.
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HSJ LocalTrust drops from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’
A teaching hospital that was lauded for its culture and championed by ministers has been downgraded from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.