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Tag Archives: Sir Malcolm Grant: Chair of NHS England
Much Wants More: Reflex or Reason? (BBC News)
Summary This week’s Budget announced a further £2.8 billion of funding over the next three years for the NHS, comprising: An additional £350 million this year, up-front, to cover anticipated Winter pressures. An additional £1.6 billion for 2018-19. An additional … Continue reading →
Posted in NHS England, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Health and Social Care Support, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care Sector, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Autumn Budget (2017), Autumn Budget: Joint Statement on Health and Social Care (2017), £2 Billion Gap in Social Care Funding, Bank And Agency Staff, BBC Data Team, BBC Health News, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Brexit Dividend of £350 Million a Week Extra for NHS (Democratic Deficit Allegation), Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board: Sir Malcolm Grant, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Concordia Health, Debranding, Dr Mark Vanderpump: Former President of British Thyroid Association, Entitlement Culture (Institutional), Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, General Medical Council (GMC), Generic Drug Manufacturers and Wholesalers, Generic Prescribing, Good Work-Life Balance, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Integration Fund, Health and Social Care Reform, Health and Social Care Services, Health Spending in England, Integrating Health and Social Care, Jim Mackey: Chief Executive of NHS Improvement, Jon Ashworth (Labour), Liothyronine, Low-Value Care, Low-Value Medicines, Mythology of the Times, NHS Capital Funding Limiting Opportunities to Modernise Services (Allegation), NHS Capital Funding: Impact on Patient Safety (Allegation), NHS Confederation: NHS on the Brink (2017 Allegation), NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Funding Projections Versus Historic 4% Growth, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Project (BBC News), November Budget (2017), Over-the-Counter Medicines, Over-the-Counter Pharmaceuticals, Philip Hammond, Pooled Health and Social Care Budgets, Quality and Sustainability, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Malcolm Grant: Chair of NHS England, Staff Shortages, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Targeting Low-Value Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Transformation Funding, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Two Difficult Years for NHS Funding Ahead, Unmet Care Needs, Unmet Health and Care Needs, Unmet Needs, Unmet Needs of Community-Dwelling Older Persons, Unmet Social Care Needs of Older People Living in Their Own Homes, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures, Workforce Issues, Workforce Issues (Feeling Undervalued), Workforce Issues (Work-Life Balance)
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Financial Sustainability in the NHS: Holding Up a Mirror? Reflection (BBC News / NHS Improvement / NHS England / BMJ / OECD / BJS)
Summary The authors of the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) report believe that the NHS may not actually need further money from the taxpayer, asserting that efficiency savings identified (in the field of general surgery alone, and without looking … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP), Anatomy of the Model Hospital, £22 Billion Efficiency Savings by 2020-21, BBC Health News, Bedford Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSK) Referral Management Centre, Bedford Referral Management Centre (RMC), Better Together Vanguard, Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Pathway (BUMP) Early Adopter, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Journal of Surgery, British Medical Journal (BMJ), BUMP: Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Pathway, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, Continuous Learning Culture, Cumbria CCG’s Pain Management Service, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Diabetes and Obesity, Durham and Darlington Children’s and Young Person’s Mental Health Services Crisis and Liaison team (CYPMHS), Duty of Best Value, East and 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Paul Baumann: Chief Financial Officer at NHS England, Personalised Medicine, Potential NHS Provider Productivity improvements, PPIB: Purchasing Price Index Benchmark and Benchmark Tool, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Productivity, Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, Professor Tim Briggs: GIRFT Programme Chair, Professor Tim Briggs: National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency at NHS Improvement, Public Opinion, pwc, Quality and Sustainability, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Renal e-clinics in Tower Hamlets, Right First Time, Road to Recovery: Delivering Financial Sustainability in NHS (PwC), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSENG), Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, Science and Innovation, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Malcolm Grant: Chair of NHS England, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, 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Further Steps in the Urgent Care Review (NHS England)
Summary Eight Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards are to explore changes in approaches to integrated care, whereby organisations work together better to provide care in a more joined up manner to benefit patients. Urgent care will be delivered not in … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2020 Vision for the NHS, 24-Hour Access to Community Services, 24-Hour Community-Based Services, 24/7 Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, 7 Day Services, 999 and Ambulance See-and-Treat, Access to Mental Health Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Acute and Emergency Care: Prescribing the Remedy, Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Home-Visiting, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Ageing Population, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Barking and Dagenham Havering and Redbridge System Resilience Group, Benefits of Integrated Care, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, Calderdale, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group, Care Closer to Home, Care Integration, Care Quality Commission (CQC), City of Leicester, Co-Location, Co-Location Models, Co-Location of Other Out-Of-Hours Services With A&E Departments, Collaborative Approach to 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Councils, Nottingham CityCare Partnership, Nottingham Emergency Services (GP Out of Hours), Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Older People’s Assessment Units, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Out-of-Hours GP Services in England, Out-of-Hours Urgent Care, Patient Awareness of Alternative Services to A&E for Urgent Health Needs, Place-Based Collaboratives, Preferred Treatment Location for Patients with Urgent Health Needs, Preventative Care, Prevention, Professor Chris Moran: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Trauma Care, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England’s Director of Acute Care, Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Inappropriate NHS 111 Referrals to 999 and A&E, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Referrals From NHS 111 to A&E, Regional Major Trauma Networks, Same-Day Response Teams, Self-Care, 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Vanguards: South Devon and Torbay System Resilience Group, Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards: South Nottingham System Resilience Group, Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards: West Yorkshire Urgent Emergency Care Network, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Wakefield, Walk-in Centres (WiCs), West Yorkshire Network Vanguard, West Yorkshire Police, West Yorkshire Urgent Emergency Care Network, Yorkshire Ambulance Service
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First NHS England Annual Review: 2013-2014 (NHS England)
Summary The first NHS England “Annual review 2013-14: a year of putting patients” outlines highlights of this organisation’s activities and impact on the NHS. Full Text Link Reference NHS England publishes Annual Review. London: NHS England, September 16th 2014. “Without … 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 38Degrees, 7 Day Services, Access to GP Services, Annual Report and Accounts for 2013/14, Bath and Cheltenham General Hospital, Better Data, Big Brother Watch, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, Care, Care at Home, CHANGE, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commitment, Communication, Community Services, Compassion, Compassion in Practice, Compassion in Practice: 6Cs Live!, Competence, Courage, Culture of Care, Culture of Care Barometer, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Dementia Prevalence Calculator, Dementia Support for Clinical Commissioning Groups, Democratic Society, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Dignity and Respect, e-Prescribing, Everyone Counts, Excellent Organisational Programme, Extending Access to GP Services, Friends and Family Test (FFT), Health and Care Innovation Expo, Health and Social Care Integration, Human Genome Project, Human Genome Project (HGP), Improving Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Improving Lives, Involve, LACDP: Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People, Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People, Local Awareness and Early Detection and Intervention (LAEDI), Local HealthWatch, Local Variations, London Strategic Clinical Networks, Maximising Data, MedConfidential, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Patient Network, NHS 111, NHS Citizen Model, NHS Citizen Programme, NHS Commissioning Assembly, NHS Commissioning Assembly Working Group, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS England Annual Review: 2013-2014, NHS England’s Business Plan for 2014/15 to 2016/17, NHS Friends and Family Test (FFT), NHS Sustainability Day, NHS West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit, Nursing Technology Fund, Open and Honest Care: Driving Improvement, Outreach Services, Parity of Esteem, Patient Online Programme, Patient Online Services, Patient Safety, Patients First and Foremost, Person-Centred Care at Home, Personal Health Budgets, Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Pharmaceutical Industry Patient Group, PM Challenge Fund, Prime Minister's Challenge Fund, Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, Promise to Learn: Berwick Report, Public-i, Putting Patients First, Quality of Care, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Safer Hospitals Safer Wards Technology Fund, Sir Malcolm Grant: Chair of NHS England, Support for Improving Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Supporting Care at Home, Surgical Never Events, Surgical Never Events Taskforce, Tavistock Institute, Technology-Enabled Projects, Telemedicine Triage Hubs, The 6Cs, The Earlier the Better: Campaign, Transforming Participation in Health and Care, Unacceptable Variations, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust, Unwarranted Variations, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Variations in Quality of Care, Wessex Area Team: NHS England, Wessex Networks, Working Together for Patients, Workstations on Wheels (WOWs)
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