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Tag Archives: Preparations for Winter
Excess Winter Mortality in England and Wales: 2014/15 and 2017/8 (BBC News / ONS)
Summary Figures from the Office for National Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 43,900 excess deaths in England and Wales during the Winter of 2014/15. This was not a particularly cold Winter. Most of the excess Winter mortality involved … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged BBC Panorama: Get Rich or Die Young, England and Wales, Excess Winter Deaths and Illnesses, Excess Winter Mortality, Excess Winter Mortality in England and Wales 2014/15 (Provisional) and 2013/14 (Final), Excess Winter Mortality in England and Wales: 2014/15, Impact of Cold Weather on Health: Influenza, Influenza, Mortality Data from the Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Physical Wellbeing, Preparations for Winter, Preventable Excess Winter Deaths, Seasonal Mortality, Wellbeing, Wellbeing and an Ageing Population, Wellbeing in Later Life, Winter Influenza Vaccination, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures
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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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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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Government Pledges a Further Two Billion for the NHS (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary There has been an early announcement that the Government is to make an extra £2 billion for the health service next year. The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday is expected to explain how the extra funding will be for … 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, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Statement (2014), BBC Health News, Best Value for Taxpayers, Better Care Fund (BCF), Care and Support Alliance, Care Closer to Home, Care Funding, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (2014), Community Health Connectors, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Configuration of Services, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Diagnostic Centres, Diagnostic Services, Diagnostic Waits, Dr Michael Dixon, Dr Michael Dixon: Chair of the NHS Alliance, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Everett McKinley Dirksen (Quotation: Apocryphal?), Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Frontline Services, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gaps, Funding of Care and Support, Funding of Continuing Care, Funding Transfer to Local Authorities, General Hospitals, George Osborne (Chancellor), Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Reform, Independent Age, Integration of Health and Social Care, Ipsos Mori, Local Government Information Unit, Mears (Home Care Provider), Minimum Staffing Levels, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Reform, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Staffing (Hospitals), Strategic Society Centre, Strong NHS Needs a Strong Economy (Taxation Pays For It), Sustainable Funding, The Guardian, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, Winter Pressure Funding
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