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Tag Archives: Long Waiting Times
World Mental Health Day (WHO / BBC News / DHSC / Lancet / PHE / Education Policy Institute / NAO / HEE / APPG on Mental Health)
Summary Today is World Mental Health Day, which has aroused lots of announcements and initiatives. First Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care re-visited the national ambition for mental health to have … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, International, Mental Health, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged Access to Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services, Access to Children’s Mental Health Services, Access to IAPT Services, Access to Mental Health Services, All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Mental Health, All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health, Anne Longfield: Children’s Commissioner for England, Assisting People with Mental Ill Health Back Into Work: Individual Placement and Support (IPS), Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Benefit Changes and Mental Health Problems, Buddhify: Meditation and Mindfulness app, CAMHS Services, Campaign to End Loneliness, Centre for Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Children and Young People’s Mental Health, Children's Commissioner for England, Claire Murdoch: NHS England’s National Director for Mental Health, Discrimination / Stigma, Economic Hardship Associated With Higher Demand for Mental Health Care, Education Policy Institute, Every Mind Matters Campaign (Mental Health Awareness), Every Mind Matters Campaign (PHE), Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (5YFVMH), Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: APPG on Mental Health Review (2018), Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Global Burden of Mental Illness, Global Mental Health, Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, Good Thinking, Heads Together Initiative, Helen Whately MP: Chair of the APPG on Mental Health, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Mental Health Services, Improving Access to Mental Health Services by 2020, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Improving Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (NAO), Individual Placement and Support (IPS): Helping People with Mental Ill Health Back Into Work, Investment in Mental Health, Investment in Mental Health Services, Jackie Doyle-Price: Suicide Prevention Minister, Jo Hutchinson: Director for Social Mobility and Vulnerable Learners at Education Policy Institute, Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, Long Waiting Times, Lynne Miller: IPS Grow National Lead, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Illness, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Support in Schools, Mental Health Support Teams, Mental Resilience, MHFA England, Mind, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Training, National Audit Office (NAO), NHS Tracker Service (BBC), NSUN, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Paul Farmer (Mind), PHE: Public Health England, Professor David Clark: Clinical Adviser to NHS England for IAPT, PTSD, Public Health England (PHE), Research Evidence for IPS: Centre for Mental Health, Rethink, Rethink Mental Illness, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), Royal Foundation, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Ruth Sutherland: Samaritans CEO, Samaritans, Samaritans’ Helpline (Extra Funding), Self-Care, Self-Care Programmes, State of the Nation Report on World Mental Health Day (Annually 2019-), Stigma of Mental Health Problems, Stigma Reduction, Sue Baker: Director of Time to Change, Suicide Prevention Minister, Tackling Stigma and Improving Attitudes to Mental Illness, Time to Change, Time To Change (Mental Health Campaign), Unmet Mental Health Needs, Unmet Need, What Works Centre for Wellbeing, WHO: World Mental Health Day 2018, Workplace Stress, World Mental Health Day, World Mental Health Day (2018), Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World: WHO's World Mental Health Day 2018
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Quality Improvement in Urgent and Emergency Care (NHS Improvement / NHS England / Department of Health)
Summary An earlier BBC News description of the problem: Full Text Link Reference Cawley, L. (2017). Four-hour accident and emergency waits rise 300% at some hospitals. London: BBC Health News, March 16th 2017. Further context and introductory analysis: Full Text … 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, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, NHS Evidence, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Tagged 2017-19 Integration and Better Care Fund Policy Framework, A&E, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency Doctors, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Acute Assessment (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Acute Bed Capacity, Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams: Transforming Mental Health Crisis Care (NHS England), Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Acute Medical Unit Consultant Input, Acute Medicine Units (AMUs), Admission Transfer and Discharge (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ambulance Handovers, Ambulance Handovers (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ambulance Response Programme (ARP), Ambulance Service Targets, Ambulance Services, Ambulatory Emergency Care (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Barts Health NHS Trust, BBC Health News, Bristol Royal Infirmary, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), British Medical Association (BMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), Centrally Coordinated Patient Flow (Use of Data in Hospital’s Dashboard), Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Clinical Decision Units (CDUs), Clinical Decision Units (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Cm, Commons Health Select Committee, Consultant Input, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand Driven by Alcohol Consumption, Demand Management, Developing Trusted Assessment Schemes, Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Dispatch on Disposition (DoD), Dysfunctional Patient Flow, Early Senior Assessment, Early Senior Review of Patients, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), East and North Hertfordshire Care Home Vanguard, ECIP, ECIP: Emergency Care Improvement Programme, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Ambulance Services, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU), Emergency Assessment Units, Emergency Assessment Units (EAUs), Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Care ACP Curriculum, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Departments (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Emergency Flow Improvement Tool, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Medicine Consultants, Emergency Services, Evolving Demand, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Flow Within Hospitals, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Frailty, Frailty (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Funding, Government Response to Health Select Committee Report on Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments (2017), GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Health Education England West Midlands, Health First (USA), Health Select Committee, Health Select Committee (HSC), Health Select Committee Inquiry, Health Select Committee Report on Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments, High Impact Change Model (HICM), Homes Regional Medical Centre (Florida), Hospital Bed Capacity, House of Commons Health Select Committee, Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Increasing Bed Capacity, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Emergency Department (A&E), Katherine Henderson: President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Long A&E Waits, Long Waiting Times, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Luton and Dunstable University NHS Foundation Trust, Management of System, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Workforce, Mental Health (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Mental Health Crisis First Response Service (FRS) and Sanctuaries, Mid-Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust, National Priorities for Acute Hospitals (2017), Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017), NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care Review Team, NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS111 Directory of Services (DoS), NHSI: NHS Improvement, Non-Medical Workforce, November 2017 Quarterly Monitoring Report (King's Fund), Out-of-Hours GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, Patient flow, Patient Flow Within Hospitals, Pauline Philip: Chief Executive of Luton & Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 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NHS England’s Five Year Forward View: Next Steps On (NHS England)
Summary The latest official review of progress against the NHS Five Year Forward View, marking two and a half years since it was launched in October 2014, presents practical and realistic strategic steps intended to allow the NHS deliver better … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), 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, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to GP Services, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Accountable Care Systems, Acute GDEs, Ageing Population, Best Value for Taxpayers, Building Health Partnerships (BHP), Cally Palmer: NHS England’s NHS National Cancer Director, Cancer Care, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Cancer Waiting Times, Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Challenges of Urgent and Emergency Care, Claire Murdoch: NHS England’s National Director for Mental Health, Closing the Cancer Survival Gap, Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Community Participation and Involvement, CVD: Cardiovascular Disease, David Behan: Chief Executive of Care Quality Commission, Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Diabetes Prevention Programme, Digitising Hospitals, Dr Arvind Madan: Former NHS England Director of Primary Care, Dr Jonathan Leach: Chair of NHS England’s Armed Forces and their Families Clinical Reference Group, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, Education and Training, Efficiency Savings, Elective Waiting Times, eRedbook, Failure to Meet Patients’ Needs, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (FYFV) for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Accountable Care Systems, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Cancer Care, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Cancer Care Key Improvements for 2017/18 and 2018/19, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Community Participation and Involvement, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Digitising Hospitals, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Funding and Efficiency, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Harnessing Technology and Innovation, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Helping People Manage Their Own Health, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Innovation for Care Improvement, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Integrating Care Locally, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Key Patient Safety Improvements for 2017/18 and 2018/19, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Key Workforce Improvements for 2017/18 and 2018/19, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Mental Health, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Mental Health Key Improvements for 2017/18 and 2018/19, Five Year Forward View - 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NHS Performance Targets: Something Had to Give? (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary NHS patients in England will experience longer waits for routine elective hospital operations, such as knee and hip replacements, as compliance with the 18-week performance target is “relaxed”, pragmatically, as a trade-off for achieving improved services in cancer care, … 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, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 62 Day Cancer Waiting Standard, 62 Day Cancer Waiting Standard: Breaches, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Cancer Care Waits, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Cancer Waiting Times, Closing the Cancer Survival Gap, Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Savings, Elective Waiting Times, Failure to Meet Patients’ Needs, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (FYFV) for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Hospital Waiting Times, Long Waiting Times, Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017), NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Five Year Forward View: Two and a Half Years On, NHS Tracker Service (BBC), Patient Safety, Performance Targets, Planned Failure, Pragmatic Strategy (NHS England), Rationing, Rationing Care, Rationing: Limiting the NHS, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sustainability, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches
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BBC’s State of the NHS: Keep Calm and Carry-On (BBC News)
Summary Continuing in the vein of the broad theme of BMJ’s mini-series on the NHS in 2017, BBC News is currently running a short season of news pieces on the State of the NHS (and social care). Concentrating the Mind … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Delirium, Department of Health, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Ageing Population, Assaults, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, BBC Health News, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Panorama, BBC Politics News, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC's NHS Week (2017), BBC's World At One Programme, Beacon Medical Group (Plymouth), Bed Availability and Occupancy, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Statistical Trends, Bed Shortages, Better Care Fund (BCF), Bristol Royal Infirmary, Care Closer to Home, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Older People, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), David McNulty: Surrey County Council, David Williams: Chief Officer for Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand and Capacity, Demand for A&E, Economic Sustainability, Fewer Older People Receiving Help with Social Care, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Funding Deficits, Funding for Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Germany, Germany's Healthcare System, Gesundes Kinzigtal, Gesundes Kinzigtal Model, Glasgow City Council, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Demand, Historic Increases in NHS Funding Slowing (Relatively), Hospital Discharge Delays, Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Hywel Dda University Health Board, Increases in NHS Spending Slowed (Relatively), International Comparisons, Ipsos Mori, Ipsos MORI Issues Index (January 2017), Izzi Seccombe: Warwickshire County Council Leader, Local Government Association: LGA, London Borough of Newham, London Borough of Sutton, Long Waiting Times, Low Morale, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, More Spent on Front-Line Healthcare Than Social Care, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Teamwork, National Living Wage in Social Care Sector, NHS Assaults, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Health Check Series: BBC News (2017), NHS in 2017: Service Under Pressure, NHS Protect, NHS Protect: Formerly NHS Counter Fraud Services, NHS Sustainability, Niall Dickson: NHS Confederation, Operations Cancelled Due to Bed Shortages, Panorama (BBC TV), Patient Handover Delays, Patient Safety, Physical Assaults on NHS Staff, Primary Care Home Model, Primary Care Homes, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England, Proportion of Public Spending on Health, Provider Sustainability, Public Perceptions of the NHS and Social Care Tracker (Ipsos MORI), Quality and Sustainability, RCEM’s Steps to Rebuilding Emergency Medicine, Reverse-Acting Hawthorne Effect (Speculative Construct), Robert Bosch Foundation, Routine Operations (Cancellations), Royal Blackburn Hospital, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Sir Robert Francis QC, Social Care Funding 2017: Reality Checks (BBC News), Staffing Levels, State of the NHS (BBC News), Steps to Rebuilding Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Today, Urgent and Emergency Services: 2016-7 Winter From Hell (Allegation), Waiting Times, Wakefield Vanguard Care Homes Scheme, Winter From Hell: 2016-7 (Allegation), Winter Pressures, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
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Five Priorities for NHS and Social Care in 2017 (King’s Fund / BBC News / BMJ / Nuffield Trust)
Summary 2017 is going to be challenging for the NHS and social care, as the demand for care outstrips the supply of funding / resources. A King’s Fund briefing identifies five main priorities for the year ahead: Supporting new care … Continue reading →
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Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Safe Staffing Levels, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Adult Social Care Funding, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Alleged Humanitarian Crisis in NHS (Under-Funding for Social Care), Ambulance Diversions (Away From Over-Stretched Hospitals), Ambulance Diversions (“Diverts”), Available Beds, Bailouts and Rewards for Failure, Barker Commission, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Newsnight, BBC Politics News, BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC Radio 4: Today Programme, BBC Regional News: Hereford and Worcester, Bed Availability and Occupancy, Black Alerts, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Brexit, British Medical Journal (BMJ), British Red Cross, Cancelled Cancer Operations, Cancelled Elective Operations, Cancelled Non-Elective Operations, Cancelled Operations, Cancer Waiting Times, Cancer: Waiting Times for Testing and Treatment, Capped Expenditure Process, Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England (Barker Commission), County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Cross-Party and Public Consensus On Sustainable Funding, Demand and Capacity, Demand for Social Care, Demand Versus Capacity Gaps, Department of Health Revenue Underspend (2016/17), Dr Mark Holland, Dr Mark Holland: President of Society For Acute Medicine (SAM), Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, East London NHS Foundation Trust, East Midlands Ambulance Service, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Financial Flows in NHS and Social Care, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust, Funding Deficits, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health Demand, Healthwatch Worcestershire, Hip and Knee Operations: Rationing, Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Ian Eardley: Vice President of RCS, Inadequate Staffing, Jacqueline McKenna: Director of Nursing and Professional Leadership at NHS Improvement, Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, King’s Fund Barker Commission, Leadership Development, Long Waiting Times, Lord Carter Review, Lord Rose Report on Leadership in the NHS, Lord Rose Report: Better Leadership for Tomorrow, Low Morale, Mike Adamson: Chief Executive of British Red Cross, Mixed-Sex Accommodation (MSA) Breaches, Mixed-Sex Hospital Accommodation, New Care Models, New Models of Care, New Models of Service, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s New Models of Care Programme, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS in 2017: Service Under Pressure, NHS Rationing, NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS South Worcestershire CCG, NHS Sustainability, NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Waiting Times, NHS Wyre Forest CCG, Non-Emergency Waiting Times, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, Nurse Staffing Levels, OPEL Level 3 Alerts, OPEL Level 4 Alerts, Operational Pressures Escalation Levels, Operational Pressures Escalation Levels (OPELs), Operational Pressures Escalation Levels Framework (NHS England), Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Patient Safety, Patients Seen in 4 Hours: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Patients Waiting More Than Four Hours For Hospital Beds (Trolley Waits), Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Peter Pinfield: Chairman of Healthwatch Worcestershire, Population Health, Priorities for Health and Social Care (King’s Fund), Priorities For NHS and Social Care in 2017, Productivity Improvements, Productivity in the NHS, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England’s Director of Acute Care, Public Dissatisfaction With Austerity, Red Cross, Referral to Treatment Waiting Times, Restrictions on Non-Emergency Surgery, Reverse-Acting Hawthorne Effect (Speculative Construct), Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Sick Man of Europe (Redefined), Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Society for Acute Medicine (SAM), South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, Staffing Levels, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Funding, The #OurNHS March (2017), Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising the NHS (Speculative Construct), Urgent and Emergency Services: 2016-7 Winter From Hell (Allegation), Vacant NHS Posts, Waiting Times, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Winter From Hell: 2016-7 (Allegation), Winter Pressures, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcestershire Royal Hospital
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Overstretched and Under-Resourced Elderly Hospital Eye Services? (BBC News / BBC News Magazine)
Summary It is likely that “hundreds” of NHS patients in England every year may suffer irreversible sight loss, or potentially avoidable deterioration of vision, due to hospital eye services being overstretched and under-resourced. Increased demand for follow-up appointments has arisen … Continue reading →
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Tagged Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Ageing in the UK, Ageing Population, Avoidable Harm, BBC Health News, BBC News Magazine, BBC's Scrubbing Up Magazine, Better Care Together Vanguard in South Cumbria and North Lancashire, Chronic Eye Diseases, Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning, College of Optometrists, Common Eye Conditions, Community Ophthalmology Services, David Geddes: National Head of Primary Care Commissioning at NHS England, David Parkins: Chair of Clinical Council for the Commissioning of Eye Health, Demand and Capacity, Demand Management, Demand on Eye Clinics, Demand-Side Factors, Diabetic Eye Disease, East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, East Lancashire Integrated Eyecare Service, Elderly Hospital Eye Services, Eye Clinic Attendances, Follow-Up Appointments, Follow-Up Appointments Waiting Times, Follow-Up Appointments Waiting Times: Absence of Hospital Targets, Follow-Up Appointments Waiting Times: Absence of Statistics, Geographical Variations, Glaucoma, Harm From Hospital-Initiated Delays for Follow-Up Appointments, Hospital Eye Services, Hospital-Initiated Delays for Follow-Up Appointments, Local Optical Committee Support Unit, Local Variations, Long Waiting Times, Macular Degeneration, Moorfields Eye Hospital, National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), NHS Eye Health Summit (June 2016), Ophthalmology (Hospital Episode Statistics), Ophthalmology Departments, Outpatient Appointments: Ophthalmology, Prof Carrie MacEwen: President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Regional Variations, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Sight Loss, Step-Down Eye Care in High-Street Optical Practices, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Spending, Visual Impairment
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