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Tag Archives: Accident & Emergency
NHS Funding and Expenditure: Joint Statement on Health and Social Care, Pre-The Autumn Budget (BBC News / King’s Fund / Health Foundation / Nuffield Trust)
Summary A joint King’s Fund, Health Foundation and Nuffield Trust report reviews NHS funding and possible implications for NHS performance against targets, and the likely impact on future access to health and care services. Full Text Link Reference The Autumn … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Adult Social Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Budget (2017), Autumn Budget: Joint Statement on Health and Social Care (2017), BBC Data Team, BBC Health News, BBC Norfolk News, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Brexit Dividend of £350 Million a Week Extra for NHS (Democratic Deficit Allegation), British Medical Association (BMA), Cancer Care Waiting Time Target, Cross-Party and Public Consensus On Sustainable Funding, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Health Spending in England, Key Performance Indicators, Mr Clive Lewis: Norwich South MP, NHS Capital Funding Limiting Opportunities to Modernise Services (Allegation), NHS Capital Funding: Impact on Patient Safety (Allegation), NHS Charity Funding Requests, NHS Confederation: NHS on the Brink (2017 Allegation), NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Funding Projections Versus Historic 4% Growth, NHS Heads For Winter on Knife Edge (King’s Fund Allegation), NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Providers' Annual Conferenc (2017), NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Project (BBC News), Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, November Budget (2017), Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Patient Safety, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Philip Hammond, Planned Operations Waiting Time Target, Planned Treatment, Quality and Sustainability, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Nick MacPherson (Former Permanent Secretary of Treasury), Social Care Provider Market, Spending Review, Spending Review 2015/16, State of Care Report, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Target Culture, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Transformation Funding, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Two Difficult Years for NHS Funding Ahead, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures
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Broken NHS Promises: Democratic Deficits Versus Bottomless Pits (BBC News / BMA / King’s Fund / NHS England; NHS Improvement / NHS Providers)
Summary Simon Stevens has reminded the Government (and the voting public) of EU referendum claims that Brexit would deliver a further £350 million per week which could be spent on the NHS. This move appears to be part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Budget (2017), Bailouts and Rewards for Failure, BBC Data Team, BBC Health News, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Boris Johnson, Brexit Dividend of £350 Million a Week Extra for NHS (Democratic Deficit Allegation), British Medical Association (BMA), Cancer Care Waiting Time Target, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Key Performance Indicators, Long A&E Waits, National Audit Office (NAO), NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Funding Projections Versus Historic 4% Growth, NHS Heads For Winter on Knife Edge (King’s Fund Allegation), NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Providers' Annual Conferenc (2017), NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Project (BBC News), Patient Safety, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Philip Hammond, Planned Operations Waiting Time Target, Planned Treatment, Quality and Sustainability, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Short-Term Funding Impeding Necessary Change in NHS, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Amyas Morse: Head of National Audit Office, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Target Culture, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transformation Funding, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures, Working on Edge of Safety (NHS Providers Allegation)
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BBC’s NHS Tracker Service: Re-Launched (BBC News)
Summary The BBC has launched a new improved version of the online NHS Tracker, in readiness for anticipated Winter-pressures. This service allows local variations in service performance to be viewed by postcode. Updates will be added to reflect monthly and … Continue reading
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Reviewing the Current – and Likely Future – State of the NHS (NAO / Dods)
Summary The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a “Short Guide to the Department of Health” as one of their collection of short guides about different government departments. This guide includes a wealth of statistical information in summary form, concerning … Continue reading
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Access to Mental Health Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency, Accident and Emergency Attendances, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care for People with Complex Needs, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Avoidable Mortality, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Performance Indicators, Bed Days, Bed Occupancy, Better Care Fund (BCF), Cancelled Elective Operations, Cancelled Operations: NHS Performance Indicators, Care Act 2014, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Statistical Trends, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Diagnostic Waiting Times, Diagnostics Waiting Times And Activity, Dods Research, Dr Martin McShane: NHS England’s Director for People With Long Term Conditions, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap (NHS), General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Health and Social Care Integration, HEE: Health Education England, Hospital Activity and Capacity, Hospital Emergency Departments, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Waiting Times, HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Human Tissue Authority, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Key Performance Indicators, Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), Low Morale, Mandate from the Government to NHS England, Market Oversight, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Monitor, National Audit Office (NAO), National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health Care Excellence, New Architecture of the NHS, New Models of Care, New Models of Service, NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Health Research Authority, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Reform, NHS Services, NHS Sustainability, NHS TDA: NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Waiting Times, Obesity, Obesity and Diabetes, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesity the New Smoking, Obesity Time-Bomb, Organisational Challenges, Oversight and Monitoring, Performance Statistics, PHE: Public Health England, Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL), Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Funding, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Regulation, Seven-Day Consultant-Delivered Care, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Working, Short Guide to Department of Health (NAO), Social Care Funding, Special Measures, Standardised Years of Life Lost (SYLL), Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention, UK NHS Performance, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Waiting Times and Access Standards, Waiting Times for Cancer Services, Waiting Times for Diagnostic Tests, Waiting Times for Referral to Treatment for Consultant-Led Elective Care
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Review of NHS Performance Under the Coalition Government (King’s Fund / BBC News / Macmillan Cancer Support)
Summary The following review of NHS performance by the King’s Fund finds that waiting times for A&E, cancer care and routine operations have been deteriorating recently, and that Trust deficits are increasing in scale and extent. The report analyses NHS … Continue reading
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Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Access to Mental Health Services, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Ambulance Services, £20 Billion Question, BBC Health News, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Performance Indicators, Bed Occupancy, Cancelled Elective Operations, Cancelled Operations: NHS Performance Indicators, Cancer Treatment, Cancer Treatment Standards, Cancer: Waiting Times for Testing and Treatment: NHS Performance Indicators, Coalition Government, CONCORD Working Group, CONCORD-2 Global Study, Crude Hospital Productivity, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, End-User Experience, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five-Year Cancer Survival Rates 2005-2009, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Funding Deficits, General Hospitals, Global Surveillance of Cancer Survival 1995–2009, Healthcare Targets, Hospital Activity, Hospital Activity and Capacity, Hospital Emergency Departments, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Waiting Times, Key Performance Indicators, Low Morale, Macmillan Cancer Support, Mental Health Services, Mixed Sex Accommodation, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS England Winter Health Check, NHS Expenditure, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Performance Under the Coalition Government, NHS Productivity, NHS Safe Staffing, Nurse Staffing Levels, Outcomes and Monitoring, Outpatient Data, Patient Experience, Patient Reported Outcomes, Patient Safety, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Planned Treatment, Production Path Analysis, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Quarterly Monitoring Reports, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Safe Staffing, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, UK Cancer Survival Rates, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Pressures
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Pressures Upon the NHS: Ongoing Questions About the Relationship(s) Between Proxy Targets and Underlying Standards (BBC News / Nuffield Trust)
Summary Patients increasingly wait longer for key services in many hospitals in England. A Nuffield Trust report investigates whether this is a significant problem. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2015). Best hospitals ‘now struggling to see patients’. London: BBC … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 24/7 Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, 24/7 Consultant Cover, 24/7 Diagnostic Services, 24/7 Service, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ambulance Quality Indicators, Ambulance Response Times: NHS Performance Indicators, Attendances at A&E: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Avoidable Harm, BBC Health News, BBC Radio 4, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Performance Indicators, Cancelled Operations: NHS Performance Indicators, Cancer: Waiting Times for Testing and Treatment: NHS Performance Indicators, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Emergency Admissions: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, End-User Experience, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, General Hospitals, Healthcare Targets, Hospital Emergency Departments, Julie Wood: Director of NHS Clinical Commissioners, Key Performance Indicators, Local NHS Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Myth-Busting, Myths and Misconceptions About Accident & Emergency Services Use, NHS 111, NHS 111 Minimum Data Set, NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care Review Team, NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Winter 2014-15: Weekly A&E Tracker, NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Project (BBC News), NHS Winter Project: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service, Outpatient Data, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Patients Seen in 4 Hours: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), People Who Have to Wait More Than 4 hours to be Admitted: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Planned Treatment, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Referrals From NHS 111 to A&E, Stephen Conroy: Chief Executive of Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Target Culture, Target-Driven Behaviour, Target-Driven Priorities, Targets and Performance Management, Trolley Wait Between 4 and 12 Hours: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Services, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures, You and Yours (BBC Radio 4)
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NHS Indicators: February 2015 (House of Commons Library / BBC News)
Summary The following House of Commons parliamentary paper covers statistical indicators for NHS England including the following broad categories: Hospital activity and capacity. Staff numbers. Waiting times and other performance indicators. A description of the indicators, showing trends over several … Continue reading
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Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency, Accident and Emergency Attendances, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ambulance Quality Indicators, Ambulance Response Times, Ambulance Response Times: NHS Performance Indicators, Ambulance Response Times: NHS Statistical Trends, Ambulance Services, Ambulance Targets, BBC Health News, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Bed Availability and Occupancy, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Performance Indicators, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Statistical Trends, Cancelled Operations, Cancelled Operations: NHS Performance Indicators, Cancelled Operations: NHS Statistical Trends, Cancer Waiting Times, Cancer: Waiting Times for Testing and Treatment, Cancer: Waiting Times for Testing and Treatment: NHS Performance Indicators, Cancer: Waiting Times for Testing and Treatment: NHS Statistical Trends, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Statistical Trends, Doctors: GPs, Doctors: GPs Nurses and Other Staff, Doctors: GPs Nurses Other Staff, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Care, Emergency Services, Finished Consultant Episodes by Primary Diagnosis, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, HCHS Doctors, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Hospital Activity and Capacity, Hospital Activity Referrals and Admissions, Hospital Activity Referrals and Admissions: NHS Performance Indicators, Hospital Activity Referrals and Admissions: NHS Statistical Trends, Hospital Activity Trends (England), Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS), Hospital Doctors, Hospital Doctors: NHS Statistical Trends, House of Commons Library, HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Key Performance Indicators, Mixed-Sex Accommodation Breaches (England), National Cancer Waiting Times Dataset, Nationality of Non-British HCHS Nurses, NHS Indicators: February 2015, NHS Outcome Indicators, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Statistical Trends, NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Tracker (BBC), Nurse Staffing Levels, Nurses, Nurses Midwives and Health Visitors (HCHS), Official Statistics, Other HCHS Non-Medical Staff, Other Hospital Staff, Other Hospital Staff: NHS Statistical Trends, Other Staff, Patients Seen in 4 Hours: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Patients Waiting More Than Four Hours For Hospital Beds (Trolley Waits), Performance Indicators, Referral to Treatment, Staff Numbers, Staffing, Staffing Level Indicators: Skill Mix, Staffing Levels, Trolley Waits, UK Parliament, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times, Waiting Times for Cancer Treatment After Urgent GP Referral, Waiting Times for Diagnostic Tests, Waiting Times for Diagnostic Tests: NHS Performance Indicators, Waiting Times for Diagnostic Tests: NHS Statistical Trends, Waiting Times for Mental Health Treatment, Waiting Times for Mental Health Treatment: NHS Performance Indicators, Waiting Times for Mental Health Treatment: NHS Statistical Trends, Waiting Times for Routine Treatment, Waiting Times for Routine Treatment: NHS Performance Indicators, Waiting Times for Routine Treatment: NHS Statistical Trends
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NHS Winter Health Check: Performance Statistics (BBC News / NHS England / King’s Fund)
Summary The NHS England “Winter Health Check” provides the latest statistics on A&E / emergency admissions, winter pressures, influenza vaccinations and NHS 111 performance for week ending January 2015. Full Text Link Reference NHS England’s winter health check. London: NHS … Continue reading
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Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ambulance Services, Ambulance Targets, Attendances at A&E: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), BBC / Populus Poll, BBC Health News, British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey, British Social Attitudes Survey, BSA / King's Fund Survey, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Admissions: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Emergency Ambulance Services, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Funding Deficits, Healthcare Targets, Hospital Waiting Times, Ipsos Mori, King’s Fund Quarterly Monitoring Report, Local NHS Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), NatCen Social Research, NHS 111, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS England Winter Health Check, NHS Expenditure, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Winter 2014-15: Weekly A&E Tracker, NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Project (BBC News), NHS Winter Project: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service, Nicholson Challenge, Patients Seen in 4 Hours: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), People Who Have to Wait More Than 4 hours to be Admitted: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Performance Targets, Quarterly Monitoring Reports, Trolley Wait Between 4 and 12 Hours: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Wales, Winter Health Check, Winter Pressures
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NHS Model(s) of Care Essential for Ageing Population (NHS England / Guardian)
Summary Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, has written about the NHS needing a revised model of care to meet rising demands for treatment from an ageing population. The existing model of delivery and service, involving an … Continue reading
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Allocations of Extra Funding to Ease “Winter Pressures” on NHS Services (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary The ongoing “crisis” in A&E admissions / winter pressures has caused a number of hospitals across the country to declare “major incidents” (although some of these incidents were short-lived and have since been lifted). The list of the hospitals … Continue reading
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