-
Recent Posts
- More on the Avoidable Costs of Lifestyle Risk Factors (BBC News / PHE)
- Immovable Antipsychotic Prescribing Practices in Care Homes? (BMJ Open)
- Update on Overuse: Further Information on the Potential Costs and Risks of Over-Diagnosis and Over-Treatment (JAMA Internal Medicine)
- Screening For Frailty: as Easy as eFI? (NHS England / Age and Ageing)
- A Tipping Point in the Sustainability of Health and Care? (BBC News / King’s Fund / Nuffield Trust)
Archives
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
Categories
- Antipsychotics
- Assistive Technology
- Charitable Bodies
- Commissioning
- Delirium
- Depression
- Enhancing the Healing Environment
- Falls
- Falls Prevention
- Guidelines
- Hip Fractures
- Housing
- Hypertension
- In the News
- Integrated Care
- International
- Local Interest
- Mental Health
- Models of Dementia Care
- National
- ADASS
- All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia
- BSI
- CQC: Care Quality Commission
- Department of Health
- Housing LIN
- MAGDR
- Mental Health Foundation
- Mental Health Network (NHS Confederation)
- MHP Health Mandate
- National Audit Office
- National Voices
- NEoLCIN
- NEoLCP
- NHS
- NHS Alliance
- NHS Confederation
- NHS Employers
- NHS England
- NHS Evidence
- NICE Guidelines
- NIHR
- NIHRSDO
- Northern Ireland
- Patients Association
- Public Health England
- RCN
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- SCIE
- Scotland
- UK
- UK NSC
- Wales
- Non-Pharmacological Treatments
- Nutrition
- Pain
- Parkinson's Disease
- Patient Care Pathway
- Person-Centred Care
- Personalisation
- Pharmacological Treatments
- Proposed for Next Newsletter
- Quick Insights
- Standards
- Statistics
- Stroke
- Systematic Reviews
- Telecare
- Telehealth
- Universal Interest
Tag Archives: Staffing (Hospitals)
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
Leave a comment
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
1 Comment
More on Extra Funding Requirements for the NHS? (BBC News / King’s Fund)
Summary The King’s Fund has proposed that the NHS in England probably needs £2 billion more next year, given the extent of deteriorating performance on some targets and the rising numbers of NHS trust deficits. The King’s Fund briefing has … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, 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, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, 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), Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (2014), Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Fair Access to Care (FACS), 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, Financing of Health Care, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Select Committee, Health: Financing, House of Commons Health Committee, Integration of Health and Social Care, Minimum Staffing Levels, Monitor, Multimorbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, 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, Nurse Staffing Levels, Paul Baumann: Chief Financial Officer at NHS England, Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Staffing (Hospitals), Taxation, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, Winter Pressure Funding
Leave a comment
