Quality and performance – Page 42
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CommentThe NHS needs to talk about productivity
The NHS needs to engage with local industrial strategies to boost booth health and economic sustainability says Michael Wood
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NewsTrust to close specialist children’s service
Children who sustain severe burns in Kent, Surrey and Sussex will be treated in Essex or central London from next month, as a specialist unit has temporarily closed.
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CommentCancer waiting times: We need to break the cycle
Dr Fran Woodard on how waiting standards continue to decline as cancer services buckle under pressure
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Does the private sector get an easier ride?
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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NewsCCG lifted out of legal directions after two years
A clinical commissioning group has been lifted out of legal directions after more than two years.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England attempted to alter independent report on child cancer care
NHS England engaged in an unprecedented attempt to interfere with an independent clinical body’s report into child cancer services, seeking to have a recommendation on co-location of intensive care services removed, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust considers pre-booking private capacity to safeguard A&E performance
A trust is proposing an extended moratorium on elective care over Christmas 2019 and Easter 2020, and pre-booking outsourcing to private providers in an attempt to shore up emergency care performance and cut cancellations.
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NewsIntegrated care trust comes bottom in patient experience survey
An integrated care trust received the lowest score in England from the inpatient survey, partly down to people’s experience of being discharged.
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NewsPatient satisfaction with waiting times falls
Public satisfaction with waiting times have declined, according to NHS-commissioned research.
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NewsBacterial bloodstream infections continue to rise in England
Bloodstream infections from potentially dangerous bacteria associated with sepsis continue to rise despite the government’s ambition to reduce them.
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HSJ LocalPension tax worsens gastroenterology backlog
The pension tax has stopped a major London trust from dealing with the growing number of patients waiting over a year in one of its specialisms.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England ‘buried’ concerns over child cancer services
NHS England covered up serious problems with paediatric cancer care in London – which had seen children dying in “terrible agony” – and has “buried” attempts to overhaul the services, an HSJ investigation has established.
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NewsRevealed: CCGs with highest rates of lung cancer detected in A&E
Two counties have six of the 10 worst performing areas for having lung cancer picked up in A&E, new data reveals.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Theresa May’s record
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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NewsAmbulance director admits paramedics took too long to reach terror victims
A senior London Ambulance director has admitted it “took too long” to get paramedics to the victims of the London Bridge terror attacks.
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NewsLung cancer death trust is an outlier on surgery
The trust at the centre of a lung cancer deaths scandal has been identified as an outlier for providing surgery on fewer early stage patients than is normal.
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CommentShould pilot sites ‘go dark’ while testing new A&E measures?
The arguments for ‘going dark’ look weak, compared with the damage to official statistics and public confidence in them, writes Rob Findlay
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Comment18 weeks “no longer important”?
English waiting times will continue to grow, indefinitely, until the NHS gets closer to keeping up with demand. By Rob Findlay
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NewsBreast cancer target performance drops 10pp in a year
Performance against a target for the NHS to quickly see patients with suspected breast cancer fell by more than 10 percentage points in the last financial year, new data reveals.
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HSJ LocalStruggling trust’s chair stands down
East of England Ambulance Service Trust chair Sarah Boulton will step down later this month after five years in the role, the trust has announced.