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Tag Archives: Seven-Day GP Access
Challenges in the Creation of a Seven-Day NHS: Leaked Update (BBC News)
Summary A confidential Department of Health review of government plans for a seven-day NHS in England, “leaked” to the Guardian newspaper and Channel 4 News, identifies 13 potential risks; including concerns over staff-shortages, workforce overload and the general lack of … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, 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, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 7 Day Services Governance Group, Audit and Risk, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, £10 Billion of Investment in NHS, Building the Evidence Base: Regarding How 7-day Services Impact on GPs Hospitals and Urgent and Emergency Care, Care Seven Days a Week, Channel 4 News, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Culture Change in the NHS, Culture of Safety, Diane Abbott (Labour), Diane Abbott: Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Doctors and Nurses (Demand Versus Capacity), Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Erroneous or Simplistic Misinterpretations of the Weekend Effect, Extra Doctors and Nurses Recruited, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Guardian, Guardian (Newspaper), Joanne Shaw: Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Chair, Joanne Shaw: Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit at National Audit Office, Money Well Spent, News Manipulation and Intransigence, NHS Culture, Patient Safety, Patient Safety in the NHS, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Risk Register for 7 Day Services Programme, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Service Redesign, Seven Day Care in England, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Delivering Against Plan Without Achieving Desired Change, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Missing the Point (Not Reducing Unacceptable Variations in Care Quality), Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Missing the Point (Some Statisticians Now Claim Weekend Effect Does Not / Did Not Exist), Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Resources, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Staff Shortages, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Unwillingness or Incapacity for Doing More With Less, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Workforce Overload, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problems Identified in Leaked Confidential Department of Health Review, Seven Day Services, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Working, Statistical Epiphenomena, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, System Re-Design, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising the NHS (Speculative Construct), Weekend Effect, Weekend Mortality Rates, Weekend Services, Weekend Working
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Seven Day NHS Services: Coming Soon? (BBC News / Department of Health / HSCIC)
Summary It was announced, coinciding with the Conservative Party Conference, that GPs in England will be offered a voluntary contract to provide seven day services for patients. Seven day hospital services should be operational in half of England by 2018 … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 7-Day GP Services by 2020, 7-Day Hospital Services, Admitted Patient Care (APC) Dataset, £10 Billion of Investment in NHS, £750 Million Primary Care Infrastructure Fund, BBC Health News, Care Seven Days a Week, Chesterfield, Clinical Indicators Team (HSCIC), Conservative Party, Conservative Party Conference (2015), Consultant-Led Services, David Cameron, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital Within 7 Days of Discharge, Federations, General Practice Networks, GP Contract to Deliver 7 Day Access, Greater Manchester, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HES APC Dataset, Indicators, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Length of Stay Following an Emergency Admission to Hospital, Making Healthcare More Human-Centred and Not System-Centred, NHS Alliance, North East, North West London, Northumberland, Northumbria, Primary Care Foundation, Primary Care Infrastructure Fund, Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund (PMCF), Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund for GP Access, Readmissions, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Roll-Out of 7-day Services in Hospitals, Seven Day Care in England, Seven Day Services, Seven Day Services and Destabilisation of Care (Allegation), Seven-Day Consultant-Delivered Care, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services – England: Provisional January 2014 - December 2014 Statistics, Seven-Day Working, Southampton, Staffing Levels, Sustainable Funding, Sweating the Assets, Weekend Services, Weekend Working, Wigan
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Reviewing the Current – and Likely Future – State of the NHS (NAO / Dods)
Summary The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a “Short Guide to the Department of Health” as one of their collection of short guides about different government departments. This guide includes a wealth of statistical information in summary form, concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Mental Health, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Access to Mental Health Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency, Accident and Emergency Attendances, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care for People with Complex Needs, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Avoidable Mortality, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Performance Indicators, Bed Days, Bed Occupancy, Better Care Fund (BCF), Cancelled Elective Operations, Cancelled Operations: NHS Performance Indicators, Care Act 2014, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Statistical Trends, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Diagnostic Waiting Times, Diagnostics Waiting Times And Activity, Dods Research, Dr Martin McShane: NHS England’s Director for People With Long Term Conditions, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, 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 Forward View (NHS England), Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap (NHS), General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Health and Social Care Integration, HEE: Health Education England, Hospital Activity and Capacity, Hospital Emergency Departments, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Waiting Times, HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Human Tissue Authority, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Key Performance Indicators, Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), Low Morale, Mandate from the Government to NHS England, Market Oversight, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Monitor, National Audit Office (NAO), National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health Care Excellence, New Architecture of the NHS, New Models of Care, New Models of Service, NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Health Research Authority, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Reform, NHS Services, NHS Sustainability, NHS TDA: NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Waiting Times, Obesity, Obesity and Diabetes, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesity the New Smoking, Obesity Time-Bomb, Organisational Challenges, Oversight and Monitoring, Performance Statistics, PHE: Public Health England, Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL), Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Funding, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Regulation, Seven-Day Consultant-Delivered Care, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Working, Short Guide to Department of Health (NAO), Social Care Funding, Special Measures, Standardised Years of Life Lost (SYLL), Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention, UK NHS Performance, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Waiting Times and Access Standards, Waiting Times for Cancer Services, Waiting Times for Diagnostic Tests, Waiting Times for Referral to Treatment for Consultant-Led Elective Care
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Seven-Day Health Service Commitment, Plus Focus on Prevention, Care Redesign and Efficiency Linked to Investment (NHS England / BBC News / RCN / HSJ)
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
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