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Tag Archives: Safe Staffing
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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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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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
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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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CEM Prescription for Acute and Emergency Care (College of Emergency Medicine)
Summary A recent policy paper from the College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), working with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons, proposes 13 recommendations to reduce the rising pressure on … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS Employers, Northern Ireland, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Scotland, Standards, UK, Wales
Tagged 2015 Challenge Declaration (NHS Confederation): Workforce Challenge, 24/7 Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, 24/7 Consultant Cover, 24/7 Diagnostic Services, 24/7 Service, A&E, Access to Primary Care, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Acute Hospital Care, Admissions, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Avoidable Admissions, British Medical Association (BMA), Care Seven Days a Week, Case-Mix, Challenges of Urgent and Emergency Care, Chronic Diseases, College of Emergency Medicine, College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), Commissioning Urgent and Emergency Care for Older People, Community Care, Community Facilities, Community-Based Services, Complex Care, Complex Needs, Diagnostic Services, Education and Staff Training, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Medicine Consultants, Emergency Medicine Workforce Implementation Group (EMWIG), Emergency Planning and Resilience, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Services, Emergency System Resilience, Funding, GP Out-of-Hours Services, Health Information Technology, Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Information Technology, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Emergency Department (A&E), Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration, Integration and Communities, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Interventional Radiology 24/7 Services Provision, Investment in Information Technology, Kent Community Health NHS Trust, Leadership, Leadership Development, Local Urgent Care Boards, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS 111, NHS 24, NHS Confederation’s Hospitals Forum, NHS Confederation’s Urgent and Emergency Care Forum, NHS Direct, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Physicians, PwC LLP, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Repeat Non-Emergency Attendees (Emergency Departments), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Surgeons, Safe Staffing, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Skill Mix, Skills Mix, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Staffing Levels and Skill Mix, Telephone Advice Services, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Commissioning, Urgent and Emergency Care Forum, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Services, Workforce and Skill Mix, Workforce Design, Workforce Development, Workforce Issues, Workforce Planning, Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS), Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
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