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Tag Archives: Unwarranted Variations in Diagnostic Testing Rates
More on the Persistence of Variations in Care and Health Inequalities (BBC News / MTG / King’s Fund)
Summary The Medical Technology Group’s analysis of data from the 209 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), concerning regional inequalities in patient access to treatments and assessments involving medical technology, discovered unacceptable variations (including inequalities between the North and South of England). … 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, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 18 Week Wait and Patient Access, Acute Stroke Management, Acute Stroke Services, Assessment and Diagnosis, BBC Health News, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Get Rich or Die Young, BBC Panorama: Stockton - England’s Most Unequal Town, Cataract Operations, CCG Performance Statistics, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, CLAHRC: Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, CLAHRCs: NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), Colonoscopy and CT Colonoscopy, Commissioning Task, CT Colonoscopies, DEMETRIQ Project, Diagnosis and Referral, Diagnostic Imaging, Diagnostic Services Atlas, Diagnostic Testing Rates, Diagnostic Waiting Times, English Health Inequalities Strategy, Geographical Health Inequalities, Geographical Variations, Getting it Right First Time, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health and Care of Older People, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Hip Replacement, Hip Replacements, Imaging Services, Impact of English Health Inequalities Strategy, Improvement Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Life Expectancy by Neighbourhood, Limb Amputations, Local Commissioning, Local Health Economies, Local Health Profiles, Local Health Services: Variations, Local Variations, Medical Technology Access, Medical Technology Group (MTG), Mortality Rates Among Older People, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR): Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), NHS Atlas of Variation, NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Atlases of Variation, NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), NHS Postcode Lottery, NHS Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Waiting Times, North-South NHS Divide, Postcode Lottery, Postcode Lottery in Access to Care, Postcode Lottery in Access to Treatment, Postcode Lottery in Standards of Healthcare, Quality Improvement, Reducing Variation, Regional Variations, Right First Time, RightCare’s NHS Atlas of Variation, Slope Index of Inequality, Slope Index of Inequality (SII) for Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy in England, Slope Index of Inequality in Life Expectancy, Specialist Stroke Units, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, Stockton: England’s Most Unequal Town, Stroke, Stroke Care Bundles, Stroke Units, Top Performing CCGs, Trends in NHS Outcomes Framework: Health Inequality Indicators, Trends in Public Health Outcomes Framework: Health Inequality Indicators, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Unwarranted Variations in Diagnostic Testing Rates, Value Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Variation Analysis, Variation in Commissioning, Variations in Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Worst Performing CCGs
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Weekend Hospital Care: Seven-Day Working (BBC News / NHS England / HEE / GMC)
Summary NHS England medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has announced that hospitals in England will be required to ensure consultants and key diagnostic tests are available seven days a week. Research into the “weekend effect” has suggested for some years that hospital mortality … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, RCN, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 24/7 Endoscopy Specialist Service Provision, 24/7 Hospice at Home Service, 24/7 Telephone Service, A&E Workforce, Acute Care, Acute Core Common Stem (ACCS) Training, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Unit Consultant Input, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP), Aneurin Bevan Health Board, Angoff, Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP), ANP Triage Model, BBC Health News, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Bristol North Somerset and South Gloucestershire BNSSG Urgent Care Board, British Medical Association (BMA), Care Closer to Home, Care Seven Days a Week, Clinical Dashboards, Clinical Leadership, College of Emergency Medicine, College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), Committee of General Practice Education Directors (COGPED), Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans of the United Kingdom (COPMeD), Consultant Input, Consultant Led Ward Rounds, Consultant Physicians, Cross-Boundary Care Pathway Redesign, Diagnostic Errors, Diagnostic Testing, Discharge, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, Education Outcomes Framework, Education Outcomes Framework (EOF), Emergency Admissions, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Pathways, Emergency Medicine Consultants, Emergency Medicine Taskforce, Emergency Medicine Workforce Implementation Group (EMWIG), EMWIG: Emergency Medicine Workforce Implementation Group, Enhanced Recovery, Enhanced Recovery (ER) Pathways, Enhanced Recovery Care Pathways, Enhanced Recovery Programmes, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, General Medical Council (GMC), Handover Tests, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, HEE: Health Education England, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Immigration Skills Charge, Improving Access to Diagnostics, Interdependencies for Seven Day Service Delivery, International English Language Testing System (IELTS), International Medical Graduates, Interventional Radiology 24/7 Services Provision, Keogh Mortality Review, Keogh Review, Lancashire and Cumbria Heart and Stroke Network, Lancashire and Cumbria Stroke Network, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Lancashire Intermediate Support Team (IST), Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Education England (MEE), Metrics, Metrics and Information, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, MRCP (UK), Network Major Trauma Review, Network Vascular Review, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS Services: Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Yorkshire and Humber Stroke Services, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nottinghamshire County CCGs, Nottinghamshire County Council Social Care, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Older People Mental Health Intermediate Support Model, One-Stop Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) Outpatient Service, Overseas Applicants to UK Medical Register, Overseas Doctors, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Pan Gwent Frailty Programme, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycles, PDSA Cycles, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Physician Associates, Physiological Sciences 24/7 Service Provision, PLA Board, PLAB Blueprint, PLAB Review (2014), Plan Do Study and Act (PDSA), Productive Endoscopy Series, Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) Test, Professional Standards and Ethics, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Quality of Care at Weekends, Redesigning Acute Care for Older People, Review of GMC’s PLAB Test, Rotherham, Rowcroft Hospice, Royal College of Nursing, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Safe Staffing, Safe Staffing Levels, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury University Hospital, Seven Day Consultant Led Multidisciplinary Ward Rounds, Seven Day Pharmacy Services, Seven Day Service Forum, Seven Day Services, Seven Day Services Improvement Programme, Seven Day Therapy Services, Seven Day Working: Four Levels Model, Seven-Day Working, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sir Bruce Keogh (Former Chief Executive of the NHS Commissioning Board; 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NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services (Public Health England / NHS Right Care / BBC News)
Summary The “NHS Atlas of Variation in Diagnostic Services”, published by NHS Right Care and Public Health England (with the assistance of numerous other organisations and clinicians), charts significant variations in how health conditions are identified, diagnosed and monitored. The … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Parkinson's Disease, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Assessment and Diagnosis, BBC Health News, British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN), Cambridge University Health Partners, Capacity Planning, Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network, Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, Dementia Diagnosis, Diagnosis and Referral, Diagnosis at Primary Care Level, Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Diagnosis Rates, Diagnostic Imaging, Diagnostic Services Atlas, Diagnostic Testing Rates, Diagnostic Waiting Times, Genetic Testing, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Imaging, Imaging Services, Improving Value in Diagnostic Services, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy (JAG), Kings College London, Knowledge and Intelligence Team (South East), Late Diagnosis: Under-Use, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), MRI Brain Imaging, National Pathology Programme (NPP), Neuroimaging, NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Atlases, NHS Improving Quality (NHSIQ), NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP), NHS Right Care, NHS Scan and Test Delays, NHS Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Waiting Times, Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Online InstantAtlas: NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services, Over-Diagnosis, PHE: Public Health England, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Right Care, Russell Group, Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP), Timely Diagnosis, Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN), True Clinical Variation Versus Unwarranted Variation, UK EUS Users Group, UK Genetic Testing Network (UKGTN), University College London (UCL), University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Unlocking Diagnosis, Unwarranted Variations, Unwarranted Variations in Diagnostic Testing Rates, Waiting Times
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