All Waiting lists articles – Page 42
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NewsNHS England urged to axe ‘perverse’ cancer funding policy
NHS England has been urged to stop a “perverse” policy of withholding money from a £200m cancer transformation fund from areas breaching the 62 day target.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The capital's scan backlogs
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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NewsReferral restriction plan 'puts patients at risk of opiate addiction'
Patients could be at risk of opiate addiction while waiting for surgery under policies being considered by seven clinical commissioning groups, the British Orthopaedic Association has warned.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: ‘But they’re privatising the NHS!’
Andy Cowper on why the NHS is not being privatised and the consequences of a culture of deliberately incentivising lying
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: The four hour target debate does not need to be binary
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing, James Illman’s fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsRadiology backlog a 'potential key risk' for trusts: CQC chief
Trust boards must recognise backlogs of unreported radiology images as “a potential key risk” and take action immediately, the chief inspector of hospitals has warned.
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NewsStevens: Day case operations must be ‘ramped up’ urgently
Hospitals must urgently increase the number of day case procedures being carried out to help stem the growing waiting list, Simon Stevens has said.
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NewsExclusive: Stevens sets out 10 year plan priorities
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has identified five major priorities for the 10 year NHS plan due to be unveiled this autumn.
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LeaderPragmatic Stevens focusses on keeping his vision alive
Simon Stevens is a man on a mission – and that mission is to control expectations.
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CommentOne year waiters double in six months
One year waiters should be going down, instead they are soaring, warns Rob Findlay
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NewsPatients 'pressurised' into treatment to hit cancer target
GIRFT report finds some clinicians believe patients “pressurised” into unnecessary treatment to hit target Small number of providers “demoralised” by “constant failing” at targets despite doing their best for patients Report recommends networking services Some prostate cancer patients are “pressurised into receiving treatment within 62 days” even where ...
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CommentHealth and housing cross sector commission can be a total game changer
Health and housing coupled together can reduce poverty, improve health and reduce demand on the NHS, states Lord Kerslake
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Palliative Care
Winner Velindre Trust: Improving palliative pathways by developing a rapid access radiographer led service
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Mediocrity and excellence
Andy Cowper acknowledges that NHS management is hard, that the political environment is insufficiently multipolar.
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CommentThe NHS at 70: same, same but different?
Looking at a broad range of data, new health trends have emerged over the past seven decades leading to changing patient demands and fluctuating satisfaction levels with the NHS, notes Gillian Prior
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NewsTrust had 2,000 patients wait more than a year for treatment
Barts Health Trust saw 2,000 patients wait more than a year for treatment during almost four years in which it did not report waiting times Hospital trust says harm reviews are ongoing It has not released an investigation into waiting times because former employees “disputed findings” A hospital ...
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NewsHospital group writes down six sites amid 'demand management' gloom
Ramsay Health Care UK writes down £70m of value from six sites Australian-owned firm is one of the biggest private providers of NHS-funded care Company cites “challenging” trading conditions following NHS demand management schemes One of the largest private providers of NHS care has written down £70m in ...
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CommentNHS funding settlement: ‘a change of gear’ for the NHS?
The announcement about the NHS funding settlement can be interpreted in two ways, says Ben Gershlick
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NewsWaiting list probe abandoned as officials not given 'right of reply'
Probe into cause of four year waiting time problem at teaching hospital Investigation was unable to complete because trust could not finish “right of reply process” with people named in report Barts Health Trust reported waiting times for elective care this month for first time since August 2014 ...
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CommentCowper’s Cut: After the promise
Andy Cowper asks how the promised increase in spending on the NHS is going to be funded