Tag Archives: Efficiency

Progress Towards Achieving Better Value / Reducing Waste in the NHS (King’s Fund / NHS Providers)

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A King’s Fund report investigates recent work on the value agenda, i.e. efforts aimed at reducing unnecessary costs while maintaining or improving the quality of care. This is based mostly on experience at three diverse NHS acute hospital trusts: … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Allocative Efficiencies, Allocative Value, Better Procurement, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Better-Value Services, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Centralised Procurement, Centralised Procurement (Economies of Scale), Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Clinical and Corporate Leadership, Clinical Leadership, Clinical Practice Groups (CPGs), Clinical Quality Improvement, Collaboration, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Community Virtual Wards, Consultant-Led Services in the Community, Cost Reductions, Culture and Leadership, Delegated Decision Making, Devolved Budgets, Devolved Decision-Making, Economic Sustainability, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency, Efficiency Agenda, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Empowerment, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health and Social Care Configuration, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthcare Value Improvement, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Reconfiguration, IHI Triple Aim, Innovative Leadership, Leadership, Lean and Quality Improvement, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter Review, Low-Value Care, Maximising Health Outcomes, Minimising NHS Costs, Model Hospital, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England’s Ten-Point Efficiency Plan, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Improvement, NHS Inappropriate Care: Overuse Underuse and Misuse, NHS Performance, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS RightCare, NHS Sustainability, Personalised Value, Practical Approaches to Delivering Better Value in NHS Clinical Services (King’s Fund), Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Culture, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, Service Cost Reductions, Service Redesign, Service Redesign for Productivity, Service Redesign for Value Agenda, Shared Clinical Pathways, Staff Empowerment, Staff Empowerment in the NHS, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Strategic Leadership, Sustainability, System Efficiencies, Targeting Low-Value Care, Technical Value, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Triple Aim Initiative, Triple Aim: (1) Improved Health and Wellbeing (2) Redesigned Care and (3) Wise Financial Stewardship, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Use of Resources Assessments (NHS Improvement), Value Agenda, Value Improvement, Variations in Care, Virtual Ward Approaches, Virtual Wards, Virtual Wards to Reduce Readmissions, Workforce Engagement | Leave a comment

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) Assessments for 2016/17 (NHS England / NHS Networks)

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England has published its annual assessment of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) for 2016/17. The following document lists the overall ratings for the 209 CCGs, following their annual assessment under the CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (CCG IAF). This … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Falls, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Allocative Efficiency, Baroness Julia Cumberlege CBE, Better Care, Better Health, Care in Local Communities, CCG Accountability and Assessment, CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (2016/17), CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (CCG IAF), CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework Indicators, CCG Leadership, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Chris Askew: Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Conflicts of Interest, Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Diabetes, Efficiency, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Financial Efficiency, Gavin Harding: Learning Disability Advisor for NHS England, Harpal Kumar: Chairman of NHS England's Cancer Task Force, Harpal Kumar: Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, Leadership, Learning Disabilities, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), New Models of Care, Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017), NHS Airedale Wharfedale and Craven CCG, NHS Ashford CCG, NHS Aylesbury Vale CCG, NHS Barking and Dagenham CCG, NHS Barnet CCG, NHS Barnsley CCG, NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG, NHS Bassetlaw CCG, NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG, NHS Bedfordshire CCG, NHS Bexley CCG, NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG, NHS Birmingham South and Central CCG, NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG, NHS Blackpool CCG, NHS Bolton CCG, NHS Bracknell and Ascot CCG, NHS Bradford City CCG, NHS Bradford Districts CCG, NHS Brent CCG, NHS Brighton and Hove CCG, NHS Bristol CCG, NHS Bromley CCG, NHS Bury CCG, NHS Calderdale CCG, NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG, NHS Camden CCG, NHS Cannock Chase CCG, NHS Canterbury and Coastal CCG, NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG, NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG, NHS Central Manchester CCG, NHS Chiltern CCG, NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG, NHS City and Hackney CCG, NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, NHS Corby CCG, NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG, NHS Crawley CCG, NHS Croydon CCG, NHS Cumbria CCG, NHS Darlington CCG, NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG, NHS Doncaster CCG, NHS Dorset CCG, NHS Dudley CCG, NHS Durham Dales Easington and Sedgefield CCG, NHS Ealing CCG, NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG, NHS East Lancashire CCG, NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG, NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG, NHS East Staffordshire CCG, NHS East Surrey CCG, NHS Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG, NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG, NHS Enfield CCG, NHS England Assessment Team, NHS England’s Annual Performance Assessment of CCGs (2016/17), NHS Erewash CCG, NHS Fareham and Gosport CCG, NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Fylde & Wyre CCG, NHS Gloucestershire CCG, NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG, NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG, NHS Greater Preston CCG, NHS Greenwich CCG, NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG, NHS Halton CCG, NHS Hambleton Richmondshire and Whitby CCG, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG, NHS Hardwick CCG, NHS Haringey CCG, NHS Harrogate and Rural District CCG, NHS Harrow CCG, NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG, NHS Hastings and Rother CCG, NHS Havering CCG, NHS Herefordshire CCG, NHS Herts Valleys CCG, NHS Heywood Middleton and Rochdale CCG, NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, NHS Hillingdon CCG, NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG, NHS Hounslow CCG, NHS Hull CCG, NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG, NHS Isle of Wight CCG, NHS Islington CCG, NHS Kernow CCG, NHS Kingston CCG, NHS Knowsley CCG, NHS Lambeth CCG, NHS Lancashire North CCG, NHS Leeds North CCG, NHS Leeds South and East CCG, NHS Leeds West CCG, NHS Leicester City CCG, NHS Lewisham CCG, NHS Lincolnshire East CCG, NHS Lincolnshire West CCG, NHS Liverpool CCG, NHS Luton CCG, NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG, NHS Medway CCG, NHS Merton CCG, NHS Mid Essex CCG, NHS Milton Keynes CCG, NHS Nene CCG, NHS Networks, NHS Newark & Sherwood CCG, NHS Newbury and District CCG, NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG, NHS Newham CCG, NHS North & West Reading CCG, NHS North Derbyshire CCG, NHS North Durham CCG, NHS North East Essex CCG, NHS North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG, NHS North East Lincolnshire CCG, NHS North Hampshire CCG, NHS North Kirklees CCG, NHS North Lincolnshire CCG, NHS North Manchester CCG, NHS North Norfolk CCG, NHS North Somerset CCG, NHS North Staffordshire CCG, NHS North Tyneside CCG, NHS North West Surrey CCG, NHS Northern Eastern and Western Devon CCG, NHS Northumberland CCG, NHS Norwich CCG, NHS Nottingham City CCG, NHS Nottingham North and East CCG, NHS Nottingham West CCG, NHS Oldham CCG, NHS Oxfordshire CCG, NHS Portsmouth CCG, NHS Redbridge CCG, NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, NHS Richmond CCG, NHS Rotherham CCG, NHS Rushcliffe CCG, NHS Salford CCG, NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG, NHS Sheffield CCG, NHS Shropshire CCG, NHS Slough CCG, NHS Solihull CCG, NHS Somerset CCG, NHS South Cheshire CCG, NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG, NHS South East Staffordshire And Seisdon Peninsula CCG, NHS South Eastern Hampshire CCG, NHS South Gloucestershire CCG, NHS South Kent Coast CCG, NHS South Lincolnshire CCG, NHS South Manchester CCG, NHS South Norfolk CCG, NHS South Reading CCG, NHS South Sefton CCG, NHS South Tees CCG, NHS South Tyneside CCG, NHS South Warwickshire CCG, NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG, NHS South Worcestershire CCG, NHS Southampton CCG, NHS Southend CCG, NHS Southern Derbyshire CCG, NHS Southport and Formby CCG, NHS Southwark CCG, NHS St Helens CCG, NHS Stafford and Surrounds CCG, NHS Stockport CCG, NHS Stoke on Trent CCG, NHS Sunderland CCG, NHS Surrey Downs CCG, NHS Surrey Heath CCG, NHS Sutton CCG, NHS Swale CCG, NHS Swindon CCG, NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG, NHS Telford And Wrekin CCG, NHS Thanet CCG, NHS Thurrock CCG, NHS Tower Hamlets CCG, NHS Trafford CCG, NHS Vale of York CCG, NHS Vale Royal CCG, NHS Wakefield CCG, NHS Walsall CCG, NHS Waltham Forest CCG, NHS Wandsworth CCG, NHS Warrington CCG, NHS Warwickshire North CCG, NHS West Cheshire CCG, NHS West Essex CCG, NHS West Hampshire CCG, NHS West Kent CCG, NHS West Lancashire CCG, NHS West Leicestershire CCG, NHS West London CCG, NHS West Norfolk CCG, NHS West Suffolk CCG, NHS Wigan Borough CCG, NHS Wiltshire CCG, NHS Windsor Ascot and Maidenhead CCG, NHS Wirral CCG, NHS Wokingham CCG, NHS Wolverhampton CCG, NHS Wyre Forest CCG, Paul Farmer (Mind), Paul Farmer: Chair of Mental Health Taskforce, Performance Indicators, Probity and Corporate Governance, Quality Improvement, Rob Webster: NHS Confederation, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) | Leave a comment

The NHS: Probably Still the World’s Best Health Service (BBC News / Commonwealth Fund / NEJM / NHS England / JAMA)

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Commonwealth Fund, a US think-tank, has re-compared data from 11 countries and – to the surprise of some commentators – again ranked the UK’s NHS as the being the best national health system overall. The NHS comes first (highest rating) for … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access (Commonwealth Fund: Health Care System Performance Domain), Access to Care, Access to Services, Administrative Efficiency (Commonwealth Fund: Health Care System Performance Domain), Australia, Australia’s Single-Payer Insurance Program (Health Systems Achieve Excellence in Diverse Ways), Avoidable Premature Mortality, BBC Health News, Benchmarking, Benchmarking Tools, Canada, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Care Process (Commonwealth Fund: Health Care System Performance Domain), Care Quality, Closing the Cancer Survival Gap, Commonwealth Fund, Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Surveys, Commonwealth Fund: Mirror Mirror International Comparisons (2017), Communication, Continuity and Feedback, Coordinated Care, Cost-Related Access Problems, Cross-Country Comparisons, Department of Health Policy and Management and Harvard Global Health Institute: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Effective Care, Efficiency, Eleven-Country Summary Scores on Health System Performance, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Equality of Access, Equity, Equity (Commonwealth Fund Health: Care System Performance Domain), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, France, Germany, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Cambridge MA), Health Care Outcomes, Health Care Outcomes (Commonwealth Fund: Health Care System Performance Domain), Health Care Spending as a Percentage of GDP (1980–2014), Health Care System Performance Compared to Spending, Health Care System Performance Rankings, Health System Performance Scores, International Comparisons, International Health Care Comparisons, International Perspectives, JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Kate Andrews: Institute of Economic Affairs, London School of Economics, Measurement for Quality and Cost, Mirror Mirror Measure Descriptions and Source Notes, Mortality Amenable to Health Care (2004 and 2014), National Healthcare Systems: International Comparative Rankings, Netherland’s Competing Private Insurers (Health Systems Achieve Excellence in Diverse Ways), Netherlands, New England Journal of Medicine, New Zealand, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS Performance, NHS Quality, NHS: Rated World’s Best Health Service, Norway, Outcomes Benchmarking, Patient Engagement, Patient Safety, Patient-Centeredness, Perceived Inefficiency, Performance Comparisons, Premature Death, Preventative Care, Prevention, Preventive Care, Public Health, Quality, Quality in the NHS, Reducing Premature Mortality, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Safe Care, Sweden, Switzerland, System Benchmarks, Timeliness of Care, UK’s National Health Service (Health Systems Achieve Excellence in Diverse Ways), United Kingdom, United States, United States Health Care System, USA | Leave a comment

Digital Maturity Assessments / Digital Maturity Index: Concepts and Guidance (NHS England / NIB / BBC News)

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Digital Maturity Index is about measuring use of information technology (IT) to improve patient safety and outcomes, reduce bureaucracy and achieve greater efficiencies in the NHS. The Digital Maturity Assessment Programme involves assessing (i) effectiveness in the use … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, 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, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 000 Pagers: Capita's PageOne, 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care in England, Barriers to Technology Implementation, BBC Health News, Beverley Bryant: NHS England's Director of Strategic Systems and Technology, Beverley Bryant: NHS England’s Director for Digital Technology, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), CQC Inspection Regime, Digital Maturity Assessment Programme, Digital Maturity Assessments, Digital Maturity Index, Digital Maturity Self-Assessments, Digital Technology, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency, Efficiency Savings, Emerging Technology, Enabling Technology, Fax Machines, Faxes / Faxing, Forward View Into Action, Forward View Into Action: Paper-Free at Point of Care, Go Paperless by 2020, Harnessing the Information Revolution, Health and Social Care Integration, Increasing Efficiency, Information Governance, Information Sharing, Information Technology, Innovation in Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Jason Zemmel: Executive Chairman of Integral Medical Holdings Group, Medic Bleep, National Information Board, National Information Board (Initially Known as the Informatics Services Commissioning Group), National Information Board (NIB), National Information Board’s Framework for Action: Personalised Health and Care 2020, National Information Board’s Plans to Improve Digital Services in Health and Care, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Improvement, NHS National Information Board, NHS Use of 130, NHS Use of Fax Machines, Pagers: NHS Use Discontinued by 2021, Paper-Free at Point of Care, Paper-Free Healthcare, Paperless Systems, Patient Safety, Patients Not Paperwork, Phillippa Hentsch: NHS Providers, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Richard Kerr: Chair of Royal College of Surgeons' Commission on the Future of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (Pager Replacement Pilot), West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (WSFT), WSFT Pilot Project: Medic Bleep | Leave a comment

Seven-Day Health Service Commitment, Plus Focus on Prevention, Care Redesign and Efficiency Linked to Investment (NHS England / BBC News / RCN / HSJ)

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary On the same day that David Cameron / Jeremy Hunt renewed pledges to maintain NHS funding, recruit 5,000 new GPs and create an NHS health service operating seven-days a week, Simon Stevens has spoken of action in pursuit of … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, RCN, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 5000 More GPs by 2020 and Surgeries Open Seven Days Per Week ("Surreal Obsession" BMA Claim), 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, AbbVie, Access to GP Services, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Better Procurement, BMA's "Surreal Obsession" Attack on 5000 More GPs by 2020 and Surgeries Open Seven Days Per Week, Bureaucracy and Burnout, Care Seven Days a Week, Centralised Procurement (Economies of Scale), Clampdown on Staffing Agencies, Clinical Nurse Specialists Nurse Practitioners, Consultancy Contracts Over £50k: Clampdown, Crowd Herding and Social Media, David Bennett: Chief Executive of Monitor, David Cameron, Dr Chaand Nagpaul: British Medical Association, Dr Peter Carter: Chief Executive and General Secretary at Royal College of Nursing, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency, Efficiency Savings, Finance and Procurement, Foreign Nurses, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, GP Recruitment, GP Scorecard: Quality Improvement, GP Scorecard: Transparency, Health Economics, Health Service Journal (HSJ), HSJ, Immigration Controls, Immigration Rules, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Management Consultants, Migrant (Non-European) Workers, Migrant Salary Rules, Migration Advisory Committee, Monday to Friday NHS Culture, Monitor, Monitor’s Provider Sustainability Directorate, National Conversation: Obesity the New Smoking, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS Confederation Annual Conference 2015, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB), NHS Procurement, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, NICE Safe Staffing Programme (Suspension), Non-European Nurses, Non-European Workers, Nurse Consultants, Nurse Staffing Levels, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Over-Reliance on Agency Staff, Prevention, Procurement, Provider Sustainability Directorate (PSD), Quality and Sustainability, RCN Congress 2015, RCN Position on Seven Day Care, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Safe Staffing Letter (June 2015), Safe Staffing Levels, Senior Nurses in the NHS, Service Redesign, Seven Day Care in England, Seven Day Services, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions: Costs Versus Benefits, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Seven-Day Working, Shortages of Senior Nurses, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Staffing Agencies Charging NHS Extortionate Rates, Staffing Levels, Staffing Levels and Skill Mix, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, System Re-Design, Twitter Campaigns: Crowd Herding, Ward Staffing Levels, Working Evenings and Weekends | Leave a comment

Mental Health Service Providers on MyNHS Comparison and Transparency Site (NHS Choices / Department of Health / NHS England)

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Coinciding with World Mental Health Day (October 10th 2014) NHS Choices launched a section of easy-to-access ratings for mental health hospitals on MyNHS. Data covers general quality indicators, patient safety, efficiency and hospital food standards. Everyone can view this quality … Continue reading →

MyNHS Comparison and Transparency Site (Department of Health / NHS England / NHS Choices)

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England and partners – including the Department of Health, Public Health England (PHE), the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) – have developed the MyNHS comparison website, which enables readers to … Continue reading →

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