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Tag Archives: Agency Staff
Record Levels of NHS Trust Deficits (BBC News / King’s Fund)
Summary Hospitals and other NHS trusts have announced record combined financial deficits, well in excess of £2 billion. A whistleblower has alleged dubious accounting procedures, in the form of unorthodox “financial alchemy”, to disguise the true level of deficits. Full … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Agency Overheads, Agency Staff, Agency Staff Spending Capped, Ambulance Patients: Long A&E Handover Delays, Ambulance Quality Indicators, Ambulance Response Times, Ambulance Targets, Anita Charlesworth: Health Foundation, BBC Health News, Better Value in the NHS, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Delayed Discharges, Difficult Headlines: Troubled Times in NHS, Financial Alchemy (Fiddling Books: Allegation), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, General Hospitals, Government Response to the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report on the Spending Review (2016), Hospital Activity Rates and Funding, Key Performance Indicators, King’s Fund Quarterly Monitoring Report, Management Consultants, Monitor, NHS Ambulance Trusts, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Overspends, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Spending, NHS Spending on Private Ambulance Providers, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, NHS Waiting Times, Operational Performance, Quarterly Monitoring Reports, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Trends in Hospital Activity and Funding, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches
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Escalating NHS Trust Deficits: Not Unexpected (BBC News / Monitor)
Summary NHS Trusts in England have run-up a £930 million “worst for a generation” deficit in the first three months of this financial year. Regulators have also noted that performance measures on waiting times for access to hospital treatment and … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Agency Overheads, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Agency Staff Spending Capped, Ambulance Response Times, Ambulance Response Times: NHS Performance Indicators, Bailouts and Rewards for Failure, Bank And Agency Staff, BBC Health News, Better Value in the NHS, Cancer Waiting Times, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Comparisons of NHS Spending With Health Spending Internationally (King's Fund 2016), Contract and Agency Staff, Cost-Effectiveness, Daily Mail, Diagnostic Waiting Times, EBITDA, EBITDA: Earnings Before Interest Tax Depreciation and Amortisation, Elective Waiting Times, EU Referendum Debate: BBC News Reality Check, European Union Referendum, European Union Referendum Debate: BBC Reality Check, Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, General Hospitals, Incentives Rewards and Sanctions, Key Performance Indicators, Management Consultants, Monitor, National Audit Office (NAO), NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, NHS Waiting Times, Operational Performance, Operational Performance: Accident and Emergency, Operational Performance: Infection Control, Operational Performance: Mental Health, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, RDEL, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Reward Systems, Rewarding Failure, Rising Expectations, Safe Staffing, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Staffing (Hospitals), Stevens Challenge, Taxpayers’ Alliance, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, 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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BBC Health and Care Pre-Election Policy Navigator (BBC News)
Summary BBC News has produced a Policy Guide mapping tool, summarising the positions of the respective main political parties on various health and care related themes, both nationally and regionally. “This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Northern Ireland, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged 24/7 Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, 24/7 Care, 24/7 Consultant Cover, 24/7 Diagnostic Services, 24/7 Service, 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Adult Social Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Alliance Party, An Independence Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Bank And Agency Staff, BBC Health and Care Pre-Election Policy Navigator, BBC Health News, Britain First Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), British National Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Cancer Waiting Times, Carers UK’s Carers Manifesto, Carers' Manifesto, Christian Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Christian Peoples Alliance (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Cista (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Communities United Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Community Nursing Workforce, Conservative Party, Creeping Privatisation in NHS (sic), DUP, Education and Training Commissions for 2015/16 (HEE), Election 2015, Election 2015: Reality Checks (BBC News), English Democrats (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Five Year Forward View, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Future Workforce, General Infection (Surrealist Humour), General Practice Workforce, GP Access, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Workforce, Green, Health Education England's (HEE) Workforce Plan for England 2015-16, HEE Workforce Plan for England: Proposed Education and Training Commissions (2015/16), Hospital Waiting Times, Jury Team (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Labour Party, Left Unity (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Lib Dems, Long Waiting Times, Mebyon Kernow (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Mental Health Waiting Times, Mental Health Workforce, National Health Action Party, National Health Action Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Privatisation Debate (sic), NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Waiting Times, NHS Workforce, NHS Workforce Census, NHS Workforce: Community Nursing, NHS Workforce: General Practice, NHS Workforce: Mental Health, Nicholson Challenge, No2EU (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Nurse Staffing Levels, Older Carers, Plaid Cymru, Pre-Election Policy Navigator, Privatisation (Backdoor), Privatisation (Debate), Progressive Unionist Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Repeal of Health and Social Care Act 2012, Respect, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Scottish Socialist Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), SDLP, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Seven-Day Working, Sinn Fein, Sir David Nicholson, SNP, Social Care, Socialist Labour Party (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Socialist Party of Great Britain (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Solidarity (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Staffing Levels, The Doctor Can't See You Now (Labour Election Campaign Poster), Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), UKIP, Unmet Needs of Family Carers, Unpaid Carers, Weaponising the NHS (Labour: Attributed Phrase), Workforce Development, Workforce Planning, Workforce Planning (NHS), Yorkshire Devolution Movement (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site), Yorkshire First (Non-BBC Content: External Internet Site)
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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
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), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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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NHS Funding Shortage Forecast: Debate Proposed (BBC News / Times / House of Commons Health Select Committee / Nuffield Trust / Independent)
Summary Nine influential signatories to a letter published in the Times have asked for a national debate on how the NHS in England is funded. The authors of this letter assert that challenges from an ageing and growing population, plus … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Allyson Pollock: Queen Mary University of London, Any Qualified Provider (AQP), BBC Health News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4: More or Less Programme, Benefits of Integrated Care, BMJ, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cancer Care Integraton in Staffordshire, Cancer Test Waiting Times, Care UK, Cathy Warwick: Chief Executive of Royal College of Midwives, CCGs in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health: Queen Mary University of London, Chris Hopson: Foundation Trust Network, Chris Hopson: Foundation Trust Network (FTN), Ciaran Devane: Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, Ciaran Devane: Macmillan Cancer Support, Clive Efford (Labour MP), Commissioners’ Income and Expenditure, Commissioning Private Sector Providers, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Conservative Conference (Birmingham: September 2014), Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Creeping Privatisation in NHS (sic), Cross-Boundary Care Pathway Redesign, Demand-Side Factors, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Derriford Hospital (Plymouth), Diabetes and Multiple Morbidities, Dr Dan Poulter (Former Health Minister), Dr David Richmond: President of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr Hilary Cass: President of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Dr John Middleton: Acting President of Faculty of Public Health, Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Dr Maureen Baker: Chair of Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr Peter Carter: Chief Executive and General Secretary at Royal College of Nursing, Dr Peter Swinyard: GP Swindon and National Chairman of The Family Doctor Association, Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Financial Constraints, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Sustainability of NHS Bodies (PAC Report 2015), FOI: Freedom of information, Former Conservative Health Minister Dr Dan Poulter, Foundation Trust Network (FTN), Fragility of NHS Finances, Guardian, Health Leaders' Panel (Nuffield Trust), Health Policy, Health Policy Conversation, Henny Braund: Chief Executive of Anthony Nolan, Hinchingbrooke Hospital (Privatisation), House of Care Model, House of Commons Health Select Committee, House of Commons Health Select Committee (HSC), Independent Commission on Whole Person Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Jean-Pierre van Besouw: Royal College of Anaesthetists, Jeremy Hughes (Alzheimer’s Society Chief Executive), Lesley Anne Alexander: Chief Executive of Royal National Institute of Blind People, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Conditions and The Mandate, Lord Adebowale: Turning Point, Macmillan Cancer Support, Managing Care of People With Long-Term Conditions, Margaret Hodge, Maureen Baker: Royal College of GPs, McKesson, Michelle Mitchell: Chief Executive of the MS Society, Moira Auchterlonie: Chief Executive of Family Doctor Association, More or Less Programme (BBC Radio 4), Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multimorbidity, National Health Policy Conversation, National Strategy for Long Term Conditions, NHS Budget Spent on Commissioning Private Sector Providers, NHS Cannock Chase CCG, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Charges: Politics and History, NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Expenditure, NHS Funding Gap, NHS North Staffordshire CCG, NHS Privatisation Debate (sic), NHS Reform, NHS Reinstatement Bill (2015), NHS Resource Spending in England, NHS Spending, NHS Stafford and Surrounds CCG, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, Nicholson Challenge, Nuffield Trust: Health Leaders' Panel, Numbers of the Year 2014: BBC Radio 4; More or Less Programme, One-Week Target for All Urgent Diagnostic Tests Waiting Times, Outsourcing, Over-Reliance on Agency Staff, Parity of Esteem, Payday Loans Attitude to Workforce Planning, Peninsula Treatment Centre (Care UK), Peter Carter: Royal College of Nursing, Peter Roderick: Queen Mary University of London, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Policy, Policy Context, Policy Development, Policy Innovation, Political Posturing, Population Change, Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Schemes, Private Finance Initiative Payments, Private Profits Cap (Labour Proposal), Private Sector Providers, Privatisation (Backdoor), Privatisation (Debate), Proactive Care Programme, Professor Caroline MacEwen: President of Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Professor Jane Dacre: President of Royal College of Physicians, Public Accounts Committee, Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Public Attitudes and Expectations, Purchaser-Provider Split in the NHS, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rising Expectations, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Rt Hon. Andy Burnham MP, Rt Hon. Professor the Lord Darzi, Rt Hon. Stephen Dorrell MP, Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Siobhan Dunn: Chief Executive of Teenage Cancer Trust, Sir John Oldham: Independent Commission on Whole Person Care, Sir Richard Thompson: Royal College of Physicians, Stephen Hawking, Turning Point, Uncontrolled Profligacy in Workforce Planning (RCN Survey), UnitingCare Partnership, University Hospitals Plymouth Trust, Waiting Times Target for All Urgent Diagnostics, Weaponising the NHS (Labour: Attributed Phrase), Year of Care Approach, Year of Care Funding Model, Year of Care Partnerships, Year of Care Tariff
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