All Targets articles – Page 20
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News
Winter A&E data ‘contaminated’, says NHS chief
This winter’s accident and emergency performance data has been “contaminated” because of coding problems, the service’s emergency care chief warned yesterday.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Closing the virtuous cycle
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Revealed: The trusts failing to meet national efficiency targets
NHS trusts continue to miss targets aimed at helping hospitals spend millions of pounds more effectively, HSJ can reveal.
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News
'Insufficient progress' made on cutting waiting list, says NAO
The NHS has made “insufficient progress” on cutting its elective waiting list, according to the government’s spending watchdog.
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News
Emergency college appoints first female president
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has elected a new president just as the debate around the future of the four-hour waiting time standard reaches a critical point.
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News
New low for A&E after proposals to ditch target
NHS performance against the four-hour accident and emergency target hit a new record low in February – for the second month in a row.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: The four-hour target is on life support – but not dead yet
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
NHS may ditch four-hour target under new proposals
NHS bosses have set out controversial plans to ditch the NHS’ four-hour emergency access target despite concerns removing the uniform benchmark could lead to quality standards being watered down.
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News
Royal colleges: A&E target could stay alongside new measures
The four hour accident and emergency standard could be retained “in conjunction” with new targets for emergency departments, the leader of the medical royal colleges has told HSJ, as NHS England considers ditching the flagship measure.
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News
Revealed: The trusts where A&E has slipped most
Waiting time performance for major emergency admissions at one London trust has deteriorated by 29 percentage points in the last two years, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Remain or reform for the A&E target?
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut:Tesco, Disneyfication and avoiding the real problems
Instead of stating the real problems facing the NHS, two leading figures are Disneyfying the problems and missing the point, rues Andy Cowper
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News
A&E performance hits lowest level
NHS performance against the four-hour accident and emergency target hit a record low in January on both the overall and type 1 category for major emergency departments.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Tin hats and stats
Welcome to Performance Watch - our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders, by performance correspondent James Illman. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Exclusive: Hospitals to miss flagship winter target
Hospitals were on course to miss a flagship target to free up 4,000 beds, information obtained by HSJ suggests.
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News
Revealed: Long stay targets and performance for every trust
This table includes the targets for every trust set by NHS Improvement on cutting the number of super stranded patients, those who have been in hospital for 21 days or more. It shows where trusts had got up to by November 2018 compared to a 2017-18 baseline.
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HSJ Local
Trust reviews 250 patients waiting to access flagship service
One of England’s largest mental health trusts is reviewing 250 patients who have endured long waits to access one of its flagship services.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Stevens in firing line as A&E debate heats up
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
NHS resurrects A&E readmissions count
Emergency re-admission data for NHS commissioners will be published from March amid concerns about rising numbers of patients returning to hospital within 30 days of discharge.
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HSJ Local
Acute trust rated 'outstanding' after quality improvement drive
An acute trust in the south east has been rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission, with its chief executive putting it down to quality improvement by clinicians and leadership stability.