All Targets articles – Page 46
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Comment
Identifying the members of the A&E frequent flyers club
Some patients attend emergency units more than 10 times a year
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News
Labour: bring back GP appointment target
The target for GPs to guarantee patients an appointment within 48 hours should be restored to help ease the pressure on accident and emergency departments, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said.
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News
Monitor to increase supervision of FT A&E performance
Monitor is increasing its scrutiny of foundation hospitals’ accident and emergency performance this winter, after being requested to do so by the health secretary.
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News
Most popular quality premium targets revealed
Improving care for circulatory diseases and reducing emergency admissions are the targets most commonly chosen by clinical commissioning groups to be linked to their income, research has found.
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News
Exclusive: Analysis reveals waiting list surge as hospital demand climbs
Demand for hospital services is reaching record levels with the number of patients on the elective waiting list hitting a five year high, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Comment
Four nations means one huge wasted opportunity
What happens with four countries in a ‘national’ health service?
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Blogs
'Special measures' are a stick to beat trusts with
In my experience, trying to get out of special measures is the start of reducing the quality of services
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News
McCarthy: Mandate update will impose 'additional burden' on NHS
Government plans to “refresh” its mandate to NHS England will impose an unfunded “additional burden” on the health service, NHS England’s policy director has warned.
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HSJ Local
Bolton FT one of best in region for A&E waits
PERFORMANCE: Royal Bolton Hospitals Foundation Trust remains one of the few hospitals across Greater Manchester to “sustainably” achieve the A&E four-hour target over the past year, commissioner board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Portsmouth system slips on A&E
PERFORMANCE: High demand for emergency acute care at evenings and weekends led to the Portsmouth health system missing the national target on accident and emergency care.
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HSJ Local
Sherwood Forest Trust struggles with long waiting time target
PERFORMANCE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust is failing to hit the Department of Health target that no patient should wait 52 weeks on an incomplete referral to treatment pathway.
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HSJ Local
Manchester trust launches audit into missed staff sickness target
WORKFORCE: Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust is to audit its sickness absence process after it missed targets for the percentage of staff off sick.
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HSJ Local
Mental health trust capacity issues driving up Manchester A&E waits
PERFORMANCE: Nearly 70 patients waited longer than four hours in A&E departments in April because of issues with mental health services, the board of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust heard.
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HSJ Local
Failure to meet 18 week target in Cumbria
PERFORMANCE: Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust failed to meet the 18 week referral to treatment target for several clinical areas in April – including diabetics, community paediatrics, neuroscience and restorative dentistry.
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HSJ Local
East Kent overcomes pressures to hit four-hour target
PERFORMANCE: East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust managed to treat 91 per cent of patients in A&E within four hours in April – despite coming under severe pressure which caused the trust to declare an internal major incident.
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News
High cost of fines for long waits revealed
English hospitals would have been fined £227m in 2012 if they had been subjected to the penalty regime written into their contracts for the current financial year, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Tameside CCG warned about poor A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Recent board papers warn that performance in meeting the four hour waiting time target A&E at Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the eight minute response time target for the North West Ambulance Service is likely to get worse in the coming months.
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HSJ Local
Frimley missed A&E target in Feb but hit quarter
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust failed the four-hour accident and emergency target in February for the second consecutive month.
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HSJ Local
Burton Hospital FT failing RTT target
PERFORMANCE: Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust has failed to deliver the 90% referral to treatment target for the three months to March, according to the latest performance report from East Staffordshire CCG.
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HSJ Local
Hillingdon Hospitals on track to miss Q4 A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust is on track to miss its A&E waits target for the fourth quarter of the 2012-13 financial year, a report to the board revealed.