Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust – Page 19
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SupplementsChronic kidney disease: A yes vote for more patient choice
Patients must be the centre of care delivery
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HSJ KnowledgeEmerging leaders pen the future
An essay competition is helping to encourage the next generation
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HSJ Local
Fix for elective reporting issues at Barnet and Chase Farm delayed
PERFORMANCE: Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust’s difficulties with reporting waiting list figures could drag on into the autumn, amid signs that a staggering number of patients have waited more than a year for treatment.
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CommentEnglish waiting times step back from the brink
But trouble is still building in the longest wait specialties
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NewsElective waiting list at its longest in six years
The waiting list for planned healthcare treatments has grown to its longest length in six years, according to official figures.
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HSJ LocalBasildon removed from special measures
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has become the first trust to come out of special measures after what the health secretary described as a “remarkable turnaround”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Four hours in A&E: what the target tells us about trusts
Does performance reflect the leadership?
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NewsUncertain future for Project Diamond funding
The future of funding for highly specialist treatments in various hospitals has been thrown into uncertainty after the Department of Health decided to stop providing a £62m budget that supplements it.
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News
NHS England backs cancer and cardiac reorganisation
NHS England is backing clinician-led proposals which would see a reorganisation of specialist cancer and cardiac services across London and Essex.
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NewsProviders fail to report waiting times data
The NHS has missed its target for starting patient treatment within 18 weeks of admission for the second consecutive month, the latest official figures show.
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HSJ Local
AHSN appoints consultant neurologist as new director
One of the most established academic health science networks in the country has appointed a director in a newly created role.
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CommentFebruary waits: England breaches 18 weeks, in a good way
Target missed for first time in years
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News18 week target breached for first time in three years
The NHS has breached the target for 90 per cent of admitted patients to start treatment within 18 weeks for the first time since 2011, the latest figures from NHS England reveal.
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NewsElective waiting list continues to grow
The size of the NHS waiting list for elective care grew in January, bucking the pattern of previous years where the number of patients waiting reduced during the month, according to latest figures for England.
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HSJ Local
CCG concerned at plan to centralise cardiac services at Barts
STRUCTURE: An east London clinical commissioning group has expressed doubt over plans to centralise specialist cardiac services at Barts Health Trust because of “performance and quality” concerns.
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NewsExclusive: More than a third of hospitals set to end year in the red
More than a third of hospital trusts are predicting deficits at the end of this financial year, HSJ research has found.
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Blogs
And so it begins: the decline of 18 week waits
The waiting list usually shrinks from August to December. Not this time. The waiting list now looks set to pass the 3 million mark around Easter, and there is a risk of England-wide 18 week breaches this year.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe simple – but compelling – case for quality governance
Boards must demonstrate they are focused on quality if they want to avoid becoming another Mid Staffordshire