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Tag Archives: County Hospital (Previously Stafford Hospital)
NHS Reconfiguration + STPs = Cut-Backs?: Two Sides of Same Equation? (NHS England / King’s Fund / Nuffield Trust / BBC News)
Summary The “Keep calm and carry on”-style narrative from officialdom. Full Text Link Reference NHS England statement on Sustainability and Transformation Plans. [Online]: NHS England, August 26th 2016. Theoretical clarification concerning STPs, from the King’s Fund Full Text Link Reference … 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, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 38 Degrees (Campaign Group), 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Accountability and Transparency, Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, £1.8 Billion One-Off NHS Trust Deficits Bailout, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Together (BCT), Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collaboration, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), County Hospital (Previously Stafford Hospital), David Pearson: Director of Adult Social Care of Nottinghamshire County Council - Nottinghamshire STP Footprint Lead, Deficits in the NHS 2016 (King’s Fund), Dr Clifford Mann: President of the College of Emergency Medicine, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR), Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), 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, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Grantham and District Hospital, Health and Social Care Configuration, Honesty and Transparency, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Reconfiguration, House of Commons Health Committee’s Inquiry Into Winter Pressures (2016), How Things Went £3.7 Billion Wrong, Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Inadequate Public Consultation (King’s Fund Allegation), Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Pre-Determined Solutions, Improving Patient Flow, Incipient Negativism, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Jeremy Taylor (Chief Executive of National Voices), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leicester, Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint, LLR STP, Local Solutions: Place-Based Approaches, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Midlands and East Commissioning Region, Midlands and East of England Commissioning Region, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multisectoral Collaboration, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances to 2020, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Midlands and East, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, NHS Timebomb [sic], Openness and Collaboration, Optimism Bias (In the Face of Difficulties), Partnership and Collaboration, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Policy, Policy Context, Population Health, Population Health Systems, Population Healthcare, Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, RDEL, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Richard Murray: Director of Policy at the King’s Fund, Richard Taylor Effect [sic], Rising Expectations, Safe Staffing, Sir Bruce Keogh (Former Chief Executive of the NHS Commissioning Board; now NHS England), Stevens Challenge, STP Footprints, STP Process Timeline Summary, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Fund (STF), Sustainability and Transformation Leaders, Sustainability and Transformation Plan, Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP), Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainability and Transformation Plans: Questions Over Opaque Development Practices, System Control Totals (Financial Targets), System Leadership, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Toby Sanders: Accountable Officer of West Leicestershire CCG - Leicester of Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint Lead, Toby Sanders: Chief Officer at NHS West Leicestershire CCG, Top-Down Policy (Masquerading as Collaboration), Towards Excellence in Adult Social Care Programme (LGA), Transformation Footprints, Transformation Funding, Transparency, Transparency Versus The Richard Taylor Effect, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Unit Costs Up + Activity Up = Commissioners Go Bust, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Weston Area Health NHS Trust, Weston General Hospital, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures Beyond Winter (Winter Re-Defined?)
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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
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NICE Guidelines, Northern Ireland, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, 7 Day Pharmacy Services, 7 Day Pharmacy Services in Sunderland and in Northumberland, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Safe Staffing Levels, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Addenbrookes and the Rosie Hospitals, Addenbrookes Hospital, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ambulance Delays at Emergency Departments, Ambulance Services, Ambulance Waits at Emergency Departments, Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Attendances at A&E: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bath and Cheltenham General Hospital, BBC Midlands, Bristol, Care in Appropriate Settings, Care Integration, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commons Health Select Committee, County Hospital (Previously Stafford Hospital), Croydon University Hospital, Delayed Discharges, Discharge to Assess Programme, Dorset, Dr Clifford Mann: President of the College of Emergency Medicine, 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, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Feeling Under the Weather (Campaign), Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Flu Vaccination Programmes for NHS Staff, Flu Vaccination Programmes for Vulnerable Members of Public, Frail elderly patients Moved Into Nursing Homes Paid for by NHS For Up To 6 Weeks, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gridlock (Under-Capacity) in A&E Departments / Hospitals, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Select Committee, Healthcare Targets, Hereford and Worcester, House of Commons Health Select Committee, Local System Resilience Groups, Local Urgent Care Centres, London, Major Incidents Declared at English Hospitals, Medical Incident Officer, Midlands, National and Local Information Campaigns, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS 111, NHS 111 Statistics, NHS England Five Year Forward View, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Providers, NHS Winter Project (BBC News), NHS Winter Project: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service, Northern Derbyshire GP Out-of-Hours Services, Northern Derbyshire Improvements to NHS111, Nurse Staffing Levels (A&E), Observer Effect, Out of Hours Services, 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 Targets, Peterborough City Hospital, Preparations for Winter, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England, Public Satisfaction with NHS, Public Satisfaction with NHS (2015), Recovery at Home After Surgery or Hospital Admission, Recruitment Drives for A&E Doctors, Routine Operations (Cancellations), Royal Bolton Hospital, Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Stoke University Hospital (Previously City General), Safari Rounds, Safe Staffing (A&E), Safe Staffing Levels, Short Stay Units for Elderly Patients, South Warwickshire System Resilience Group, Swindon, System Resilience Groups, Target Culture, Target-Driven Priorities, Targets, Trolley Waits, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Routine Operations, Walsall Manor Hospital, Weaponising the NHS (Labour: Attributed Phrase), West Midlands Ambulance Service, West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures Beyond Winter (Winter Re-Defined?), Worcestershire Royal Hospital
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New Trust to Run Stafford Hospital (BBC News)
Summary A new trust is being created (“renamed”) to run the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital and another hospital in Stoke. On November 1st 2014, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust will become the University Hospitals of North Midlands. The NHS … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, In the News, Local Interest, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged BBC Health News, Cannock Hospital, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, County Hospital (Previously Stafford Hospital), Dissolution of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Francis Inquiry, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (MSFT), Monitor, North Staffordshire, North Staffordshire Hospitals, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Royal Stoke University Hospital (Previously City General), Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Stafford, Stafford Hospital, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS), University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, University Hospitals North Staffordshire, University Hospitals of North Midlands, University Hospitals of North Midlands (Previously University Hospital of North Staffordshire)
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