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NewsNHS will do ‘same level’ of waiting list work next year
The NHS will carry out a similar level of elective activity next year as it has this year, despite government ambitions to significantly reduce waiting times, under plans agreed with ministers.
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NewsTrust warns of ‘catastrophic’ delays as NHSE provides £10m cash boost
An ambulance trust has been given an extra £10m by NHS England to cover the cost of A&E handover delays that took place in the first six months of 2024-25.
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CommentAccelerating elective recovery takes a pause
The rate of waiting list reduction has paused far short of the required one million per year.
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NewsExclusive: Government steps back from pledge to hit A&E target
The government has refused to reaffirm its pledge to return the NHS to hitting the four-hour A&E standard by the end of this parliament after a spokesman admitted to HSJ “we cannot do everything at once”.
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NewsStarmer rejects the need for trade-offs to hit elective care target
Making the recovery of elective care a priority does not give the NHS “permission” to allow “everything else [to] suffer”, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned.
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CommentElective recovery gets underway
The pace will need to be even higher in 2025-26, writes Rob Findlay.
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NewsTrusts given new target as elective milestone is missed
Trusts that missed a target to virtually eliminate 65-week elective waits by September have been given another three months, as NHS England confirmed it had failed to hit the milestone nationally.
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HSJ PartnersInsourcing with 18WS can help meet elective recovery targets
18 Week Support stands ready to help the NHS meet the government’s commitment to increase capacity by 40,000 appointments per week
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NewsExclusive: Trust CEOs sound alarm as ‘ministers float plans to cut elective funding’
Ministers are considering “capping” the £3.2bn elective recovery fund this year, senior NHS figures have told HSJ, in a move they warned could derail Labour’s pledge to cut waiting lists – and send NHS finances into further disarray.
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NewsDarzi: NHS ‘unlikely’ to meet performance targets in five years
Labour is “unlikely” to meet its flagship manifesto commitment to restore the NHS’s constitutional waiting times during this parliamentary term, Lord Darzi has warned.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘We’re in a right hole’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is a big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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HSJ Partners18 Week Support at 10: A landmark period in advancing NHS clinical insourcing
As 18 Week Support celebrates its 10th anniversary, the organisation reflects on a decade of transformative impact on NHS patient care
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NewsRevealed: Three-fold variation in emergency response time by ICS
A threefold variation in ambulance response for serious, urgent conditions has been revealed in new figures.
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NewsLong waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target
The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.
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HSJ LocalTroubled ICS diverting 400 electives each week under new model
One of England’s most challenged systems is diverting around 400 patients a week, mostly long waiters, away from its largest trust towards private hospitals and neighbouring NHS providers, after setting up a new “coordination centre”.
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Expert BriefingLabour would shackle the service to a target NHSE wanted to ditch
After Wes Streeting committed a Labour government to hitting the four-hour A&E target within a first term in office, the key question NHS leaders will want answering is “how?”, writes James Illman in this week’s Recovery Watch.
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NewsStreeting commits to hit four-hour target in first term
Wes Streeting has reiterated Labour’s commitment to hitting all the NHS’s headline performance standards in its first term, including the four-hour A&E target, if it wins power.
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NewsProgress on 65-week cases stalls as waiting list rises
The number of 65-week waiters has risen back up to more than 50,000, halting six consecutive months when the cohort was falling, NHS England’s monthly data shows.
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NewsSix trusts drop into ‘most challenged’ group
Six more trusts have dropped into the “tier 1” group for the most challenged providers for their elective or cancer performance.
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News40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent
Fourty per cent of the £150m capital funding pot NHS England made available to incentivise urgent and emergency care improvements was not distributed, data shown to HSJ reveals.