All Targets articles – Page 65
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NewsNumber of A&E consultants must double to cope with new indicators
The new accident and emergency indicators will require some departments to double their A&E consultants while others will struggle to record the data without upgrading their IT, the HSJ has been told.
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NewsEmergency targets scrapped in favour of performance measures
The four-hour accident and emergency target and the 19 minute category B response time for ambulances are to be scrapped, the government announced today.
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NewsHospital productivity has fallen over last decade
Hospital productivity has fallen by an average of 1.4 per cent a year since the publication of the NHS Plan ten years ago, the National Audit Office has said.
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Providers freed to set their own referral to treatment targets and set prices below tariff
The revised operating framework has freed providers to set prices below the tariff and set their own referral to treatment targets, opening the field further to competition.
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NewsTariff to be cut by 1.5 per cent
The tariff, which prices thousands of procedures commissioned in the NHS, will be cut in cash terms by 1.5 per cent in 2011-12 compared with this year, the Department of Health has revealed.
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NewsHospitals to face mixed sex ward fines
NHS hospitals face fines for failing to end the use of mixed-sex wards under a renewed drive to tackle the issue.
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CommentMark Britnell: quick fixes for making efficiency gains
Some people think more cash is coming for the NHS, but just in case it isn’t, here are some instant gains we can make in the meantime
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Comment'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'
Post-Blair Labour health “reforms” overemphasised a centrist, target driven culture that tended to distort how care might best be delivered. It marginalised clinical staff, leaving them often to adopt a stance of disgruntled passivity.
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CommentMedia Watch: targets and treatment
The last week and a half proved a good few days for journalists, but a less good few days for NHS managers and their staff.
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CommentOur lives are in the cancer detectives’ hands
Helping GPs to hone their skill at identifying cancer early will go a long way to improving survival rates
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NewsMSPs split on waiting time law
MSPs on a Holyrood committee have revealed that it is split on whether new laws should be brought in giving NHS patients a legal waiting time guarantee.
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NewsHospital trusts hit by £90m fall in earnings
Hospital trusts lost out on income worth approximately £90m during the three months to June as a result of the Department of Health’s policy to restrict funding for emergency admissions.
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NewsShortage of surgical training posts criticised
Hundreds of people aspiring to become surgeons are being left behind due to the lack of training posts available at the NHS, according to a new investigation.
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NewsStaff safety warning over cuts
Public sector workers could be put at risk of injury or illness because of the government’s spending cuts, safety experts have warned.
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Comment'Time to consider the benefits and flaws of the single minded pursuit of targets'
Medicine, it has been suggested, is as much an art as a science.
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CommentChris J Hawkey: A new opening for transparency
Clinicians must put away self-interest if they are to earn the new powers set out in the white paper
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NewsNicola Sturgeon hails 'best ever' waiting times
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has hailed the “best ever” waiting time figures achieved by the NHS in Scotland.
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CommentNHS reorganisation: don't leave the patients behind
It could be the language that seals the deal. New Labour’s mission got lost in a technocratic haze, so a white paper more comfortable with the vernacular of the voluntary sector is helping patient groups swallow the pill of another reorganisation while showing genuine enthusiasm for the changes ahead.
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CommentUnderstanding how patients behave could help cut NHS waste
How the new science of social influence can save the NHS money
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HSJ KnowledgeA rapid return to high quality NHS reporting
Michelle Rhodes and Jim Hatton explain how their trust’s emergency department acted decisively to bring performance reporting and data quality up to the mark