All Targets articles – Page 36

  • Nurses pushing trolley
    News

    Worst A&E performance since targets began

    2016-05-12T17:24:00Z

    A&E performance for full A&E departments worst since targets were introduced Attendances up by a quarter, admissions up by more than half Thinktank warns performance could deteriorate further if more funding not found The English NHS has recorded its worst yearly results for four hour waits in accident ...

  • Theatre pressures
    News

    Elective waiting list reaches nine year high

    2016-05-12T13:08:00Z

    NHS England admits elective waiting list could be as high 3.7m people Service appears to have breached 92 per cent waiting time target for 2015-16 March saw highest number of patients waiting more than a year since December 2012 The number of patients waiting for an elective procedure ...

  • Surgery
    News

    Rise in urgent operations being cancelled

    2016-05-11T07:00:00Z

    Three trusts responsible for more than half of patients who had an urgent operation cancelled at least twice Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust saw highest number, up from zero the previous year See the trust by trust data Two trusts cancelled urgent operations at least twice for ...

  • Ben_Clover
    Comment

    Analysis: NHS Improvement can make RTT picture clearer, not prettier

    2016-05-04T07:00:00Z

    News of NHS Improvement’s waiting times validation project comes at an interesting point for those affected by referral to treatment data.

  • Numbers
    News

    NHS Improvement to check waiting lists of 60 trusts

    2016-05-04T07:00:00Z

    Waiting times data to be checked at 60 trusts in £2m project Performance on referral to treatment declining nationally Large hospital trusts not reporting their waiting times data NHS Improvement has launched a £2m project to see how many patients on trust waiting lists for elective procedures are ...

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham FT
    News

    Revealed: First digital maturity index scores in full

    2016-04-12T09:30:00Z

    This is a full list of trusts’ scores on the new digital maturity index, based on HSJ analysis of NHS England data.

  • Eurostar
    HSJ Local

    Kent CCG looks to Calais staff to reduce waiting times

    2016-04-11T12:25:00Z

    WORKFORCE: A Kent clinical commissioning group is considering bringing in clinicians from Calais to help reduce waiting times and increase choice locally.

  • London
    News

    Cancer wait performance declines significantly in London

    2016-04-06T07:00:00Z

    The latest cancer data shows a significant decline in waiting times performance for north London boroughs.

  • Claire Murdoch
    News

    Transparency league table problems not a 'question of competence'

    2016-03-30T00:01:00Z

    Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has dismissed as “harsh” a suggestion that problems with the recently published “learning from mistakes” league table raised a “question of competence” over the government’s handling of improvement initiatives.

  • Manchester Tram
    HSJ Local

    A&E failure may trigger national intervention in Manchester devolution

    2016-03-29T07:00:00Z

    NHS England could intervene in devolution if performance on the headline A&E target drops Several Greater Manchester trusts among worst in England for A&E performance CCGs will not have to maintain a 1 per cent surplus individually Initial arrangements described as “synthetic” devolution PERFORMANCE: A number of performance ...

  • Rob Findlay
    Comment

    The NHS is getting waiting times management wrong

    2016-03-23T07:00:00Z

    It sounds sensible to book patients in before they breach the target – but in practice it is unfair, unsafe, and keeps waiting times on the brink of failure. Rob Findlay writes about a better way

  • King's College Hospital, Golden Jubile Wing
    News

    Revealed: Trusts told to improve bottom line by tens of millions

    2016-03-23T07:00:00Z

    HSJ has obtained financial “control totals” for nearly a third of acute trusts NHS Improvement has already released “sustainability and transformation funding” allocations for every provider for 2016-17 King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust must deliver the biggest improvement compared to 2015-16 Regulators are banking on a major turnaround ...

  • Barts
    News

    Exclusive: Hundreds more hidden patients waiting 52 weeks for treatment

    2016-03-17T17:27:00Z

    HSJ uncovers nearly 400 more patients waiting more than a year for treatment Official data said 722 patients were waiting more than 52 weeks as of January Discovery follows revelation of 1,015 year-plus waiters at Barking, Havering and Redbridge At least 378 more patients than previously thought have ...

  • HSJ Local

    London trust's A&E performance plummets to worst in England

    2016-03-17T07:00:00Z

    PERFORMANCE: A London hospital trust has become the worst performing in the country on accident and emergency performance.

  • Child in A&E
    News

    Thirty worst A&E trusts called to London summit

    2016-03-04T12:09:00Z

    NHS Improvement chief raised concerns over “organisations who consistently deliver very low levels of performance” January was “a very difficult month” for A&E departments, Jim Mackey said Trusts “left in no doubt whatsoever that there needs to be a sustained improvement” The 30 worst performers on the accident ...

  • Calender
    News

    Revealed: Trust has 1,000 patients waiting over a year for treatment

    2016-03-02T17:00:00Z

    East London trust has 1,015 patients waiting more than a year on elective RTT pathway Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust’s total dwarfs reported national figure True national total not known as large acute trusts fail to report waiting times data Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONE/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt ...

  • A&E
    News

    CCG leads doubt delivery on finance and A&E for 2016-17

    2016-02-22T14:50:00Z

    Large majority of CCG leaders responding to survey have little confidence in delivering health system balance or A&E targets High confidence in delivering new mental health targets The large majority of local commissioner leaders responding to an HSJ survey have little confidence their health system will return to ...

  • Richmond House
    News

    Department of Health declares its top priorities

    2016-02-19T15:05:00Z

    Department of Health publishes “shared delivery plan” for the next four years Department to judge performance on metrics including reduction of emergency bed days NHS leaders warned against cutting national bodies “to the bone” The government has published the Department of Health’s priorities for the four remaining years ...

  • Targets
    News

    One in three trusts reject financial targets for next year

    2016-02-16T12:00:00Z

    Regulators issued a financial “control totals” to every trust in England for 2016-17, which they must agree to, to secure their share of the £1.8bn sustainability and transformation fund NHS Providers says two-thirds of trusts have accepted their offer, but many have done so with conditions and caveats Finance ...

  • Scanner
    News

    NHS breaches main waiting target for first time since 2011

    2016-02-11T13:32:00Z

    The NHS in England has officially breached the main waiting times target for elective treatment.