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Tag Archives: Tackling Variation
NHS Operational Productivity: GIRFT Meets Mental Health and Community Health Services (Lord Carter / DHSC)
Summary Lord Carter’s latest report in the NHS Operational Productivity series shifts the attention to unwarranted variations in mental health and community health services. Potential savings of around £1 billion in efficiencies could be made by 2020/21, allegedly, if the … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2gether NHS Foundation Trust, 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Acute and Urgent Mental Healthcare Pathway, Average Length of Stay (Hospitals), Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Care Hours Per Patient Day (CHPPD), Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Community Health Services, Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Mental Health Services, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Acute Care Pathway, CHPPD and Cost Per Care Hour, Clinical Engagement, Clinical Leadership, Clinical Quality Improvement, Clinically-Led Quality and Efficiency Project (GIRFT), Co-Morbidities and Dementia, Co-Morbidities In Older Patients, Co-Morbidities of Old Age, Community Hospitals, Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), Community Nursing, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Continuous Learning Culture, Cooperation, Corporate Services, Cost of Inpatient Care and Care Hours Per Patient Day, Cost Savings, Cost-Improvement Programmes (CIPs), Dashboards, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Duplication of Effort / Expense, e-Rostering, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Economies of Scale, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Engagement Champions, Estates and Facilities Management, Example Patient Journeys, Facilities Management, Finance and Procurement, FP10 Prescriptions, Future Operating Model for Procurement and Supply Chain in NHS, Getting it Right First Time, GIRFT Approach, GIRFT Approach Applied to Community Health Services, GIRFT Approach Applied to Mental Health Services, Healthcare Continuum, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthy Workforce Framework, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Homecare and Community Pharmacy Dispensed FP10 Prescriptions, Improving People Policies and Practices, Integrated Performance Framework, Kent Community Health NHS Trust, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Learning Culture, Learning for Improvement, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Lifetime Healthcare Costs, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter of Coles, Lord Carter Review, Lord Carter: Chair of NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, Lower Leg Wounds (Ineffective Treatments / Delays), Management of Co-Morbidities, Meaningful Use of Standards and Incentives, Medicines Optimisation, Metrics, Metrics and Information, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, NHS Acute Hospitals, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Estates, NHS Finance, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Operational Productivity, NHS Procurement, NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, NHS Procurement Transformation Programme (PTP), NHS Productivity, NHS Sustainability, Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nursing Cost Per Bed, Openness and Transparency, Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Opportunities for Standardisation, Optimising Clinical Resources, Optimising Non-Clinical Resources, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Patient Safety, Procurement Performance Metrics, Procurement Review, Procurement Transformation Programme, Productivity, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Efficiency and Performance (Often Go Together), Quality Improvement, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Variations in Clinical Costs, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rehabilitation and Complex Needs Pathway, Restricted Patients, Restricted Patients: Offenders Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, South West London and St. George’s NHS Mental Health Trust, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Sustainability, Tackling Variation, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Spending, Wasted Resources, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Framework for Governance Reviews, Well-Led Indicators (CQC), Wirral Community NHS Trust, Wound Care
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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 →
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Innovation for Efficiency, Productivity and Affordability in Healthcare (ILC-UK / EY)
Summary A report from the International Longevity Centre covers seven examples of UK-based and international schemes involving innovation. These examples are: Memory First: an integrated dementia service run by a consortium of 162 GPs across 41 practices in Staffordshire. Urban … Continue reading →
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Variations in Excess Hospital Mortality Rates (BBC News / NHS Digital)
Summary Significantly higher than expected death rates have been recorded at 19 of the 133 NHS Trusts in England, according to the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College London. “There were 15,396 more deaths than expected at the trusts in … Continue reading →
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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Communication Failures in Hospital End-of-Life Care (BBC News / RCP)
Summary The latest Royal College of Physicians (RCP) audit has estimated that one in five families may not be consulted when hospital staff decide not to revive their relatives and issue “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) orders. “Guidelines issued by the … Continue reading →
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Further Room For Improvements in End of Life Care (BBC News / RCP)
Summary End of life care in the UK has previously been assessed to be possibly the best in the world, but a Royal College of Physicians audit report identifies local variations in the quality of hospital care for the dying. Full … Continue reading →
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Lord Carter’s Report on NHS Efficiency Savings (BBC News / Department of Health / NHS Improvement)
Summary Proposed efficiency savings could help the NHS save £5 billion per year by 2020, according to the Labour peer Lord Carter’s report. Full Text Link Reference Hospital bed-blocking ‘costs’ NHS England £900m a year. London: BBC Health News, February … Continue reading →
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