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NewsTransparency league table problems not a 'question of competence'
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.
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HSJ LocalA&E failure may trigger national intervention in Manchester devolution
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 ...
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CommentThe NHS is getting waiting times management wrong
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
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NewsRevealed: Trusts told to improve bottom line by tens of millions
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 ...
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NewsExclusive: Hundreds more hidden patients waiting 52 weeks for treatment
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 ...
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HSJ Local
London trust's A&E performance plummets to worst in England
PERFORMANCE: A London hospital trust has become the worst performing in the country on accident and emergency performance.
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NewsThirty worst A&E trusts called to London summit
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 ...
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NewsRevealed: Trust has 1,000 patients waiting over a year for treatment
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 ...
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NewsCCG leads doubt delivery on finance and A&E for 2016-17
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 ...
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NewsDepartment of Health declares its top priorities
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 ...
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NewsOne in three trusts reject financial targets for next year
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 ...
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NewsNHS breaches main waiting target for first time since 2011
The NHS in England has officially breached the main waiting times target for elective treatment.
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NewsFormer NHS chief calls for four hour mental health target
Commission describes mental health system under pressure after “steady attrition” of funding in recent years Lord Crisp calls for new four hour waiting time target for acute adult patients and an end to long distance transfers Mental Health Network calls on NHS England to invest directly in frontline provision ...
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NewsCarter savings ‘won’t be enough’, experts warn
The Carter report has illustrated how difficult it will be to extract further savings from the hospital sector, think tanks have warned.
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NewsCarter: Diagnostic services should hit new targets, merge, or outsource
Lord Carter recommends trusts unable to hit new pathology benchmarks be ordered to consolidate or outsource by January 2017 Reckons there are £250m in savings to be found in pathology His earlier report on pathology, commissioned in 2005, put the sum at £250m-£500m Trusts that cannot achieve new ...
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NewsCarter to back new measure of nurse productivity
Carter to call for new “principal” measure of nursing deployment to be introduced from April “Care hours per patient day” derived from nursing and healthcare assistant hours per inpatient Review expected to call for “national people strategy” to tackle absenteeism, bullying and turnover Will also back clampdown on use ...
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NewsExclusive: Carter calls for cap on hospital management costs
Lord Carter proposes cap on hospital corporate and management spending Draft of his unreleased report recommends expenditure does not exceed 7 per cent of income Trusts above this must submit plans for reduction against national benchmarks Lord Carter is set to recommend that all hospital trusts’ management and ...
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HSJ LocalTrust halts patient record system to tackle financial deficit
TECHNOLOGY: A hospital trust has put plans to develop an electronic patient record system on hold because of its “unforeseen” financial challenge, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ Local18 week waits, January 2016: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for January 2016
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CommentEngland still (probably) breaching 18 weeks
The 18 week target was narrowly breached again in November