All Winter pressures articles – Page 17
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NewsNHS leaders chant 'we can do this' at A&E improvement summit
NHS chief executives were led in a chant of ‘we can do this’ at a nationally convened meeting about the need to improve emergency performance, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ LocalThird of hospital's patients unable to leave as CCGs struggle to fund services
A trust in the West Midlands is unable to discharge 30 per cent of patients from one of its hospitals as commissioners in the region struggle to fund community services, HSJ has been told.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Making the NHS sweat is a dangerous game
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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NewsSimon Stevens: Cut DTOCs to prepare for possible flu outbreak
Freeing up delayed transfer of care beds will be vital to ensuring the NHS has enough capacity to manage winter pressures and a possible flu outbreak, Simon Stevens has warned.
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NewsA&E scorecard plan replaced by patient flow dashboard
NHS Improvement has dropped plans to rank trusts on an accident and emergency “scorecard” and instead launched a performance data “dashboard” to help trusts better identify patient flow bottlenecks and share best practice.
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NewsGPs ordered to give appointment data to national bodies as winter looms
NHS England has ordered the national collection of future GP appointment data for the first time, as part of its preparations for looming winter pressures.
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NewsNHS leaders locked in winter funding standoff
System leaders are locked in a standoff over winter resilience funding – with providers pushing for a raid on NHS England’s budget to fund additional beds, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMackey calls for 'urgent' action over winter beds as DTOCs rise
Regulators have warned that urgent action is needed to ensure enough hospital beds are available over winter, saying that the government’s extra investment in social care failed to reduce the number of delayed discharges.
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NewsUpdated: The NHS trusts with the highest DTOC rates
The NHS is unlikely to meet a government target to cut delayed transfers of care to 3.5 per cent of its overall 131,000 bed base by next month, analysis of official data published today suggests.
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News'Serious concerns' over new bed occupancy target ahead of winter
Leading clinicians have raised serious patient safety and efficiency concerns about a new 92 per cent bed occupancy benchmark for trusts.
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CommentRTT waits better in May, but worse year on year
Elective waiting times improved seasonally during May, but the longer term trend remains for ever increasing waits.
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NewsHospitals given new bed occupancy target as NHS braces for winter
NHS bosses have set out a range of new targets for providers and commissioners, amid concerns about the system’s performance against the four hour target and the upcoming winter.
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NewsMackey 'surprised' by NHS fragility and pledges action ahead of winter
Jim Mackey has admitted regulators were “surprised” by the fragility of the NHS system and how much central support trusts needed last winter – as system leaders attempt to finalise new measures to mitigate similar problems this year.
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NewsExclusive: Social care £2bn won't get NHS through winter, ministers warned
Budget pledge to ease pressure on NHS by injecting cash into social care will fail, health chiefs warn Extra cash will largely plug existing social care budget gaps rather than supporting NHS discharges Tory source rejected that funding would not help NHS, stating cash was contingent on councils showing ...
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News'Silly' bed closures made winter pressures worse, says NHSI chief
Many acute trusts reported capacity problems over the winter after being unable to discharge patients to community beds or care homes NHS Improvement estimated 8 per cent of out of hospital beds were closed compared to the previous winter Jim Mackey says local organisations must work better to understand ...
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News'Little evidence' of winter funds reaching trusts, says regulator
A national regulator has questioned whether funding earmarked to help NHS trusts cope with winter pressures was actually made available to them.
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CommentSo how did the NHS cope with the never-ending winter?
Siva Anandaciva argues that we are now in danger of losing the substantial progress made in A&E performance more quickly and deeply than feared
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CommentWinter in the NHS is all year round: here's how we can cope
What can A&E departments do to tackle acute admissions in light of rapidly escalating, crisis-level statistics, asks Jenny Simpson
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Official figures suggest provider sector deficit of £873m
Official figures published by regulators show the NHS provider sector forecasting a £873m year-end deficit, against the maximum “control total” of £580m.
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NewsAnalysis: 'Full impact of winter yet to hit the bottom line'
Policy experts have said NHS trusts were set an impossible task in 2016-17 and warned their projected deficit could worsen further because the full impact of winter has “yet to hit the bottom line”.