All Targets articles – Page 4
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News
NHSE appoints new director of elective and cancer
NHS England has appointed a new director of electives, cancer and diagnostics, and a new communications director.
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Comment
The three steps in a successful virtual wards programme
Sara Gariban highlights three barriers to scaling up virtual wards and how overcoming them will enable the NHS to fully harness their potential for patients, staff and the wider health and care system
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HSJ Partners
How 18 Week Support aids the NHS in upholding national waiting time standards
It’s clear we need multiple effective solutions to address the patient backlog and build resilience for the future. 18 Week Support talk about how they are stepping up to support the NHS during these challenging times
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Comment
Waiting list grows again as NHS plays catch-up on missed targets
Clinical risk on the waiting list continues to grow, writes Rob Findlay
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News
Trusts set new outpatients target in waiting list push
National leaders have issued a new target to trusts in their bid to increase outpatient productivity and meet a key government commitment on elective care.
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Comment
The NHS is not being ambitious enough on emergency care
In this exclusive piece, the presidents of the Royal College of Physicians, Society for Acute Medicine, British Thoracic Society and British Geriatrics Society jointly respond to NHS England’s winter plan.
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News
Revealed: the eight trusts in NHS England’s most challenged group
Eight trusts are in NHS England’s latest list of the most challenged organisations in terms of elective and cancer recovery, 12 months on from when the system was first introduced.
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News
Trusts must hit new A&E target to access capital fund
Trusts ‘over-delivering’ on two emergency care targets this winter will be awarded a share of a new £150m capital fund, NHS England has announced.
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‘Local innovation’ can improve A&E without central funding, says NHSE
An NHS England director has said innovations in urgent and emergency care should be possible without extra central funding, as she set out plans to manage the coming winter.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Quantifying the strike damage
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chiefs James Illman and Ben Clover.
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News
Courage not targets needed to push ‘reticent’ NHS bosses to tackle racism
NHS leaders are still “reticent” to act decisively over racism and diversity problems and it will take courage rather than targets to tackle this challenge, a trust boss has warned.
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Comment
Waiting list hits new record as 65 week target slips away
For most patients, waiting times are not coming down
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Insight Briefings
Recovery Watch: Will strikes sink Sunak’s waiting list promise?
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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News
Ministers refuse to set target for ending maternal deaths disparity
The government has rejected calls to set a target and strategy to end ‘appalling’ disparities in maternal deaths.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The specialties with the most challenging backlogs
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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News
‘I’m protecting the NHS tech budget’, says Barclay
The health and social care secretary has claimed he is ‘protecting’ the NHS’s technology budget in the face of financial pressures.
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Government dilutes public health priorities to deliver shorter NHS mandate
The government has downgraded the importance of improving public health in its annual ‘mandate’ to the NHS.
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News
Hitting elective target ‘not in NHS’s control’, Sunak warned
The NHS Confederation chief says he will this week demand clarity about Rishi Sunak’s flagship waiting list reduction target, warning it may not be ‘the most sensible target [or] within the service’s control’.
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Comment
Elective waiting list breaks new record
Of 7.4 million waiting, 6.3 million do not have a diagnosis and decision, and 26,800 of those may turn out to have cancer
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News
Elective activity nosedives as strikes and holidays bite
Elective activity fell sharply in April as national holidays and strikes squeezed resources, and the waiting list rose to a record 7.4 million, NHS England’s monthly performance data shows.