All Targets articles – Page 48
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HSJ Local
East Sussex claws back 18 week performance
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare Trust achieved the 18 week target for admitted patients during July and August, following a difficult start to the financial year.
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HSJ Local
North Somerset failing incomplete pathways target
PERFORMANCE: NHS North Somerset is failing the target for 92 per cent of patients to have been treated within 18 weeks.
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NewsMonitor finds East Midlands FT in significant breach
Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has been found in significant breach of its authorisation by Monitor amid concerns about performance including a failure to hit the accident and emergency waiting times target over an 18-month period.
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CommentIs choice a blight or a boon for patient care?
Will choice hit the vulnerable or drive up standards?
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NewsHospital activity 'will rise'
Four out of five hospital chief executives believe their trust will do more work this financial year than it did in 2011-12. The finding casts doubt on commissioners’ hopes of controlling demand.
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NewsRight to receive treatment within 12 weeks takes effect
Patients in Scotland have a legal right to receive treatment within a maximum 12 weeks of diagnosis after new laws came into force.
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CommentIsn’t it time CCGs owned waiting lists?
It now makes sense for clinical commissioning groups to take the reins from providers
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NewsA&E performance at its worst for seven years
More trusts failed the four hour accident and emergency target in the first quarter of 2012-13 than in any first quarter since 2004-05, a King’s Fund analysis has found.
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NewsGMC investigates complaint against Dame Barbara Hakin
The General Medical Council has launched an investigation into a complaint against national director for commissioning development Dame Barbara Hakin, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
South Devon plans evening and weekend lists to tackle RTT backlog
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust is transferring some patients to an independent provider and planning to run weekend clinics in order to reduce its referral to treatment backlog in some specialties.
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HSJ Local
Royal Cornwall A&E performance back on track
PERFORMANCE: Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust achieved the four-hour accident and emergency target for the first time in 2012-13 during July.
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NewsCambridge University Hospitals called into regulator's office
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has called Cambridge University Hospitals to its offices to discuss whether the foundation trust is in significant breach of the terms of its authorisation.
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NewsTrusts ‘stop the clock’ to hit targets
Concerns have been raised that some trusts have excessively used “clock pauses” in order to achieve the 18 week referral to treatment target.
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HSJ Local
Epsom and St Helier misses emergency readmission target
PERFORMANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is breaching the emergency readmission to A&E target, with a rate of 7.3 per cent againt an organisational target of 5.8 per cent.
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CommentPutting the quality back into QIPP
Pursuing value could be the right step towards transforming the NHS
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: Accident and Emergency performance in Surrey
This briefing looks at how the economy will improve Surrey’s A&E performance
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HSJ Local
Q1 A&E target problems for Royal Surrey County
PERFORMANCE: Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits more often than it met it during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
A&E target problems for Ashford and St Peter’s in Q1
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits more often than it met it during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
SASH breached A&E target in April
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust breached the four-hour target for accident and emergency waits for two consecutive weeks during the first quarter of 2012-13, according to board papers.