Quality and performance – Page 24
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The A&E target conundrum continues
This week, we revisit the thorny subject of accident and emergency standards, following calls for a new six-hour target to be introduced.
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NewsCQC: Restraint and sexual safety among transport service failings
Private and NHS ambulance services are reviewing safety procedures after the Care Quality Commission identified a series of risks to mental health patients being transported by non-emergency providers.
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NewsTrust chief calls for six-hour A&E target
The chief executive of a trust trialling the new emergency care standards being considered by the government has called for a new six-hour target to either move patients out of accident and emergency, or for them to receive treatment.
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NewsPrivate provider sues NHS England over £270m contract award
A private provider is accusing NHS England of breaking procurement rules after it awarded a contract for prison health services in the South West to a London mental health trust.
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NewsTrusts reveal thousands of new 12-hour waits
Several trusts have now started reporting thousands of 12-hour waits in their emergency departments, representing a huge difference to the numbers published nationally under a slightly different measure.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: GPs angered as ‘place’ maps redrawn
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsFormer regional director drafted in to oversee troubled trust
A former regional director has been drafted in to oversee a trust where a review found ‘multiple’ governance issues and ‘deep-seated’ cultural problems, HSJ has learned.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Crumbling services, but who’s in charge?
Hospital leaders have warned there is a lack of accountability in the NHS, adding this could undermine public and political trust in the service.
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NewsPatients kept in A&E for ‘up to three weeks’, CQC finds
Patients experiencing a mental health crisis were kept in a trust’s emergency department for up to three weeks, a Care Quality Commission report has revealed.
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NewsTrust’s future under question as specialist service shut down
NHS England is closing the current gender identity clinic for children and young people following a critical independent review, replacing it with two new services in London and the North West of England.
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NewsBarclay calls urgent ‘hackathons’ over ambulance crisis
The new health and social care secretary has asked officials to hastily organise several “hackathons” to try to address the crisis in ambulance performance.
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NewsLondoners several times more likely to get life-saving treatment
The NHS and the Treasury need to make a renewed commitment to increasing the number of patients who benefit from thrombectomy, the Stroke Association has said, as it revealed the service was dependent on just 106 doctors in England.
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NewsLong-standing NHS England director to step down
One of the NHS England’s longest serving senior leaders is set to stand down after seven years in post.
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NewsAmbulance trust to hand back key NHS 111 contract
An ambulance trust which took on running NHS 111 services to provide consistent care quality is handing back a major contract for the service.
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NewsNHSE director accuses Sunak and Truss of ‘silence’ on mental health waits
NHS England’s national director for mental health has warned the “silence is deafening” from Conservative leadership candidates over the treatment backlog for mental healthcare.
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News‘We are presiding over a failing NHS,’ say leading trust CEOs
A lack of accountability is causing the quality of NHS services to crumble, according to some of the most respected trust chief executives.
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HSJ LocalTrust declares its cancer waiting list ‘unmanageable’
One of the NHS’s biggest hospital trusts has declared its cancer waiting list is now at an ‘unmanageable size’.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Why the NHS will struggle to hit 78-week target
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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NewsExclusive: ‘Outrageous’ long A&E waits for mental health patients increase 150pc
Mental health patients who arrive at emergency departments in crisis are increasingly facing ‘outrageous’ long waits for an inpatient bed, with some being forced to wait several days.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Why the North West waits
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.