All Targets articles – Page 31
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News'Political' NHS targets may damage care quality, warns national report
A senior clinician leading a national drive against unwarranted variation in the NHS says cancer targets and surgeon mortality rates are “politically derived measures” that may reduce care quality.
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NewsVanguards told national funding depends on denting A&E admissions
NHS England has told national vanguard sites that their emergency admissions growth will need to be significantly lower than elsewhere to secure access to their national transformation funding in the second half of 2017-18.
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News'Undeliverable' DTOC reduction targets revealed
More than a third of councils have been told to reduce delayed transfers of care from hospital attributable to social care by 50 per cent or more by September, raising the possibility they could lose better care fund money if they fail.
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NewsCCGs face 'impossible' choices to deliver higher savings targets
Local commissioners must deliver efficiency savings of almost 4 per cent to meet their financial targets this year, despite failing to get close to last year’s target of 3.2 per cent.
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Comment18 week waits, May 2017: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for May 2017
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NewsNo 'magic bullets' for A&E, improvement chiefs warn
The NHS’s more challenged hospitals could take around 18 months to return to 95 per cent on the four hour accident and emergency standard, improvement leaders have warned.
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NewsTrusts could face sanctions if they fail to comply with new A&E standards
Hospitals must meet best practice standards around improving patient flow this financial year or they could face sanctions, as system leaders try to avert another A&E winter crisis.
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NewsJeremy Hunt signs off changes to 'dysfunctional' ambulance targets
A shake-up of “dysfunctional” ambulance response times has been approved by the health secretary today.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Trust accused of putting patients at risk with 'fixation' on targets
East of England Ambulance Trust faces accusations of putting patient safety at risk over the last 18 months because of a “fixation” with hitting response time targets.
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HSJ LocalRoyal college warns bed shortage is 'national crisis'
Consultants have raised concerns over risks to patients after a trust ran out of beds at half of its mental health units earlier this year.
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HSJ LocalCCG gives green light to service switch in breach of procurement law
Commissioners have agreed to help an acute trust access more incentive funding through changing the way its accident and emergency performance is reported – despite the decision breaching procurement regulations.
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HSJ Local
Trust cut thousands of patients from waiting lists in 'unsafe' practice
Kettering trust excluded at least 26,000 potential patients from waiting list using “unsafe” data filtering “solely intended” to omit long waits Damning report found RTT performance data has been “fundamentally flawed” since 2006 Trust denies fraud but admits senior managers “failed to act appropriately” A Midlands trust has ...
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HSJ LocalCorrected: Trust cancelled operations to hit financial targets
A trust in the West Midlands cancelled elective operations for three weeks in March in a bid to meet its financial targets set by NHS Improvement.
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Mapped: Cash-strapped CCGs fail to hit spending standard
Commissioners in deficit or under financial pressure are less likely to meet mental health investment standard, new research finds Royal College of Psychiatrists analysis is based on FOI requests to all 209 CCGs The number of CCGs failing to raise mental health budgets each year by the same percentage ...
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Comment18 week waits, April 2017: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for April 2017
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HSJ Local
CCG reports £7m deterioration in final months of financial year
A clinical commissioning group in Surrey has reported a deterioration of £7.4m in the final three months of 2016-17.
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NewsLabour admits waiting list pledge uncosted but is confident of delivering promises
Labour shadow health secretary says party will deliver plans with £37bn funding for NHS over five years Jon Ashworth says Labour has not worked out specific cost of taking 1 million people off NHS waiting lists by 2022 Labour government would set up “NHS Office of Sustainability” Labour’s ...
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HSJ LocalMental health crisis unit fails to hit admission target
Proportion of service users referred back into community falls from 79 per cent to 55 per cent in March Service user complains that men and women are treated in the same room which is “completely inappropriate and very unsafe and scary for vulnerable women” Trust highlighted large number of ...
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HSJ LocalSpecial measures trust rejects 14 per cent savings target
Isle of Wight Trust initially accepted a control total deficit of £0.4m, which required savings of 14 per cent But following further financial deterioration it now has an £18.8m deficit plan Trust was rated inadequate by the CQC earlier this year An NHS trust that is trying to ...