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NewsExclusive: NHS to miss April deadline to end 78-week waits by around 11k patients
National NHS forecasts are predicting there will be around 11,000 patients on the elective waiting list who have been waiting longer than 78 weeks at the start of April, the target for clearing this cohort, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘Grey area’ over key A&E target
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 emergency care correspondent Matt Discombe
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HSJ LocalLack of private sector help putting elective target at risk, says trust
An acute trust and its integrated care system have said they risk missing the imminent waiting list target, after struggling to get as many patients treated in the independent sector as they hoped.
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NewsNHS warned ‘cramming’ A&Es with medics is not working
The NHS’s efforts to prop up emergency departments with thousands of additional medical staff has been the wrong approach to solving the crisis in these services, experts have argued.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentAnother record-breaking waiting list for England
The elective backlog recovery has not yet begun
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Consultant strike cover ‘costing up to £4,500 per shift’
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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HSJ LocalBMA ‘rate card’ wipes out elective recovery gains, claims trust
A struggling acute trust says its failure to hit its elective care targets is directly linked to doctors’ demanding overtime rates in line with the British Medical Association’s new rate cards, as national tensions around the issue intensify.
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NewsRevealed: best and worst ICSs for inpatient elective activity
Only seven integrated care systems recorded more inpatient elective activity in the three months to December than in the same period before the pandemic, according to HSJ analysis.
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HSJ LocalTrust accused of highlighting long NHS waits to promote its private hospital
An NHS trust has been accused of promoting its private hospital by highlighting the long NHS waiting times which it is supposed to be addressing.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in December 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentElective waiting times rose sharply in December
The waiting time to diagnosis and decision has risen to more than 10 months
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NewsPayment by results transition ‘painful’, Mackey admits
NHS England has ‘wrinkles to iron out’ with the elective recovery funding guidance, but national director Sir Jim Mackey has dismissed some concerns about the new regime as ‘nonsense’.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Bewilderment over new elective targets
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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HSJ LocalHarm caused by long cancer waits to be investigated by ICB
Commissioners have begun a ‘serious incident review’ across their integrated care system after early indications showed patients may have suffered harm due to long waits for cancer treatment.
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NewsRevealed: New elective activity targets for each ICS
NHS England has set new elective targets for each integrated care system in 2023-24, ranging from 3 per cent to 14 per cent above pre-pandemic levels.
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NewsTrusts ‘coping better with strikes’ and on track to eliminate 78-week waits, says NHSE director
Trusts are getting better at coping with industrial action and are still on track to hit the national target of eliminating the backlog of 78-week waiters, an NHS England director has told staff.
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NewsNHSE launches new intervention regime for worst A&E performers
NHS England has revealed a new intervention regime, as it seeks to deliver on its new urgent and emergency care recovery plan.
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News4,000 temporary beds to be made permanent under NHSE recovery plan
NHS England plans to shift about 4,000 temporary hospital beds from inappropriate areas into new wards next year, and open around 1,000 additional staffed beds, as part of new urgent and emergency recovery proposals set out today.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Patients removed from waiting list under divisive new rules
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.