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Tag Archives: Winter Pressures
More On the Cold Weather Theme (NHS England / BBC News)
Summary NHS England has advised the elderly to keep warm, whether indoors or outdoors. Statistics indicate that heart attacks and related hospital admissions are likely to increase immediately following cold weather. “Hospitals also see a rise in the admission of … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Campaign to End Loneliness, Cold Weather, Emotional and Social Isolation, Harm From Cold Weather, Impact of Cold Weather on Health, Impact of Cold Weather on Health: Falls and Injuries, Impact of Cold Weather on Health: Heart Attack, Impact of Cold Weather on Health: Hypothermia, Impact of Cold Weather on Health: Respiratory Disease, Impact of Cold Weather on Health: Stroke, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Jo Cox Loneliness Commission, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England’s Director of Acute Care, Rachel Reeves: Co-Chair of Jo Cox Loneliness Commission, Reducing Social Isolation, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Social Isolation, Winter Pressures
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NHS Funding and Expenditure: Joint Statement on Health and Social Care, Pre-The Autumn Budget (BBC News / King’s Fund / Health Foundation / Nuffield Trust)
Summary A joint King’s Fund, Health Foundation and Nuffield Trust report reviews NHS funding and possible implications for NHS performance against targets, and the likely impact on future access to health and care services. Full Text Link Reference The Autumn … 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), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 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 Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Adult Social Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Budget (2017), Autumn Budget: Joint Statement on Health and Social Care (2017), BBC Data Team, BBC Health News, BBC Norfolk News, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Brexit Dividend of £350 Million a Week Extra for NHS (Democratic Deficit Allegation), British Medical Association (BMA), Cancer Care Waiting Time Target, Cross-Party and Public Consensus On Sustainable Funding, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Health Spending in England, Key Performance Indicators, Mr Clive Lewis: Norwich South MP, NHS Capital Funding Limiting Opportunities to Modernise Services (Allegation), NHS Capital Funding: Impact on Patient Safety (Allegation), NHS Charity Funding Requests, 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 Heads For Winter on Knife Edge (King’s Fund Allegation), NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Providers' Annual Conferenc (2017), 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), Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, November Budget (2017), Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Patient Safety, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Philip Hammond, Planned Operations Waiting Time Target, Planned Treatment, Quality and Sustainability, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Nick MacPherson (Former Permanent Secretary of Treasury), Social Care Provider Market, Spending Review, Spending Review 2015/16, State of Care Report, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Target Culture, 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, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures
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Broken NHS Promises: Democratic Deficits Versus Bottomless Pits (BBC News / BMA / King’s Fund / NHS England; NHS Improvement / NHS Providers)
Summary Simon Stevens has reminded the Government (and the voting public) of EU referendum claims that Brexit would deliver a further £350 million per week which could be spent on the NHS. This move appears to be part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, 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, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E, 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 Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Budget (2017), Bailouts and Rewards for Failure, BBC Data Team, BBC Health News, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Boris Johnson, Brexit Dividend of £350 Million a Week Extra for NHS (Democratic Deficit Allegation), British Medical Association (BMA), Cancer Care Waiting Time Target, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Key Performance Indicators, Long A&E Waits, National Audit Office (NAO), 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 Heads For Winter on Knife Edge (King’s Fund Allegation), NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Providers' Annual Conferenc (2017), 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), Patient Safety, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Philip Hammond, Planned Operations Waiting Time Target, Planned Treatment, Quality and Sustainability, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Short-Term Funding Impeding Necessary Change in NHS, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Amyas Morse: Head of National Audit Office, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Target Culture, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transformation Funding, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures, Working on Edge of Safety (NHS Providers Allegation)
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BBC’s NHS Tracker Service: Re-Launched (BBC News)
Summary The BBC has launched a new improved version of the online NHS Tracker, in readiness for anticipated Winter-pressures. This service allows local variations in service performance to be viewed by postcode. Updates will be added to reflect monthly and … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, 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, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Northern Ireland, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged 62 Day Cancer Waiting Standard, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, BBC Data Team, BBC Health News, BBC News Reality Check, BBC Reality Check Team, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Cancer Care Waiting Time Target, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Geographical Variations, Jeane Freeman: Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, Katherine Henderson: President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Key Performance Indicators, Local NHS Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Local Variations, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), NHS Funding and Performance: Wales Versus England (BBC Reality Check), NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Pensions Row (2019), NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Performance Tracker, NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Tracker Service (BBC), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Project (BBC News), North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, Northwick Park Hospital, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Planned Operations Waiting Time Target, Planned Treatment, Quality and Sustainability, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Sustainability, Target Culture, Target-Driven Behaviour, Target-Driven Priorities, Targets and Performance Management, University Hospital Of North Tees, Unscheduled Admissions, Unwarranted Variations, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Services, Variations in Service, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures
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