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Tag Archives: Waiting Times and Access Standards
NHS70: Some Recent Publications and Statistics (ONS / NHS Digital / BBC News / CQC)
Summary The National Health Service (NHS) was created seven decades ago today. Different organisations have marked this event in their own distinct ways. Two sets of brief statistical eye-openers. The first is from the Office for National Statistics: Full Text Link … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, CQC: Care Quality Commission, In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adoption of Innovations, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Aneurin Bevan, BBC Health News, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Wales News, Big 7Tea Events, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Driving Improvement: Case Studies From Adult Social Care Services (CQC), Driving Improvement: Case Studies From GP Practices (CQC), Driving Improvement: Case Studies From NHS Mental Health Trusts (CQC), Driving Improvement: Case Studies From NHS Trusts (CQC), Driving improvement: Case Studies Series (CQC), Ethel Armstrong MBE (Longest Serving NHS Employee), Human Genome Project, Nathan Wyburn: Stone Portrait of NHS Founder Aneurin Bevan, NHS 70 (NHS 70th Birthday), NHS 70 Address to Westminster Abbey (Simon Stevens), NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Digital, NHS 70 Celebration Partners, NHS 70 Celebrations, NHS 70 Partners, NHS 70: Objectives and Narrative, NHS 70th Birthday, NHS Digital, NHS Digital (Formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre), NHS Performance, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Tracker Service (BBC), NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS70, NHS70 Westminster Abbey Service, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Tredegar Workmen’s Medical Aid Society, Waiting Times, Waiting Times and Access Standards
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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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The Impact of Cancer on the NHS: Fresh Approaches (BBC News / Macmillan Cancer Support / NHS England / British Journal of Cancer / NICE)
Summary Macmillan Cancer Support has made available a collection of the key evidence about the prevalence, needs and experience of people affected by cancer. Around 2.5 million people today are living with cancer in the UK. This figure has increased … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, NICE Guidelines, Northern Ireland, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Booking Appointments, British Journal of Cancer, Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), Cancer Prevalence in the United Kingdom, Cancer Research UK, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Cancer Test Waiting Times, Care in an Ageing Society, Choose and Book, CtE: Commissioning Through Evaluation, Diagnostic Waiting Times, Emotional Impact of Cancer, Eurocare-5 Database: Survival Analysis 2000-2007, Harpal Kumar: Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, Harpal Kumar: Head of NHS Cancer Taskforce, Impact of Cancer on the NHS, ISD Scotland: Cancer Incidence in Scotland, Lower Cancer Referral Thresholds for GPs, Macmillan Cancer Support, Monitoring of Cancer Survival at Local Level, Multi-Disciplinary Diagnostic Centres, National Cancer Survivorship Initiative, National Cancer Waiting Times Dataset, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), NHS Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), NHS Cancer Taskforce, NHS England’s Commissioning Through Evaluation (CtE) Programme, NHS Waiting Times, Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Office of National Statistics: Cancer Registration Statistics, Option to Self-Refer for Diagnostic Tests, People With Cancer (Macmillan Cancer Support's Rich Picture), Prevalence of Cancer, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Premature Mortality, Rich Picture on People With Cancer (Macmillan Cancer Support), Self-Referral for Diagnostic Tests, Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR), Supportive and Palliative Care, Suspected Cancer: Recognition and Referral, Waiting Times and Access Standards, Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit
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Parity of Challenge for NHS Mental Health Services? (BBC News / RCN)
Summary Staff cuts and bed shortages, in the face of increasing demand, pose questions about the credibility of the NHS “parity of esteem” policy for mental health services. Full Text Link Reference Nurses warn of mental health services strain. London: … Continue reading
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Acute Mental Health Services, Admissions to Mental Health Services, Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), All Wales Medicine Strategy Group (2014), Available Beds, Betsi Cadwallader University Health Board, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME), Black and Minority Ethnic Communities: Mental Health, Bridging the Gap Campaign, CAMHS Services, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, Commissioning Older People’s Mental Health Services, Community-Based Services, Crisis Care Concordat, Delivering Parity of Esteem, Dr Peter Carter: Chief Executive and General Secretary at Royal College of Nursing, Early Intervention Psychosis (EIP) Teams, Early Referral to Mental Health Services, Formal Legal Detentions (Under Mental Health Legislation), Frontline First (RCN), IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Information Services Division Scotland, Inpatient Admissions, Inpatient Admissions and Bed Management in NHS Acute Hospitals, Liaison Mental Health Services, Mark Winstanley: Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA), Memory Services, Mental Health, Mental Health Beds: Local Availability, Mental Health Care, Mental Health Commissioning, Mental Health Crisis, Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, Mental Health Foundation (MHF), Mental Health in England, Mental Health Inequalities, Mental Health Nursing, Mental Health Nursing Posts, Mental Health Nursing Workforce, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Services, Mental Health Statistics, Mental Health Strategy, Mental Health Trusts, Mental Health Waiting Times, Mental Health Waiting Times Targets, Mental Healthcare, Mental Illness in the NHS, National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH), NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Mental Health Services, No Health Without Mental Health, No Health Without Mental Health Strategy, Nursing Skill Mix, Older Adult Mental Health Services (OAMHS), Older People and Mental Health, Older People’s Mental Health Services, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Peter Carter: Royal College of Nursing, Preventative Care, Prevention, Preventive Care, Rethink Mental Illness, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Frontline First Campaign, Secondary Mental Health Services, Shortages of Senior Nurses, Skill Mix in Mental Health Settings, Staffing Level Indicators: Skill Mix, Staffing Levels and Skill Mix, UK Mental Health Services, Waiting Time Target for Psychological Therapies, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times and Access Standards, Waiting Times for Mental Health Services, Welsh Government, Workforce and Skill Mix, Workforce Planning, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Shortages in Mental Health Nursing
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