Waiting list hits new record high as attention shifts to 65-week breaches
The NHS waiting list hit a record 7.3 million incomplete pathways in March, according to new official data, as trust bosses gear up to clear the circa 95,000 patients who have waited over 65 weeks.
ICS already admitting it will miss March 2024 elective waiting time target
One of the country’s most challenged integrated care systems has told NHS England it expects to significantly miss the March 2024 target to end elective waits of 65 weeks or longer.
West Country Chronicle: Staff survey reveals a county of contrast
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Two ex-acute CEOs brought in to fix ICS’s elective problem
Two former acute trust CEOs have been brought in to help with the elective recovery in the integrated care system with the highest number of patients waiting a long time for treatment.
Revealed: best and worst ICSs for inpatient elective activity
Only seven integrated care systems recorded more inpatient elective activity in the three months to December than in the same period before the pandemic, according to HSJ analysis.
West Country Chronicle: Two year waits have NOT been ‘eliminated’
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System’s trusts failing to tackle ‘completely unjust’ health inequalities
All three acute trusts in an integrated care system are failing to meet national requirements to tackle health inequalities after being overwhelmed by emergency and elective care pressures.
West Country Chronicle: Not another nightmare year
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Planned deficit more than doubles at financially challenged ICS
One of England’s most financially challenged integrated care systems will increase its expected deficit this year by £30m.
Trusts move away from joint EPR plan
A joint electronic patient record system for acute providers across two neighbouring integrated care systems is now unlikely, according to one of the trusts involved.
Eight trusts win place on elective recovery project
Eight trusts have been awarded roles trialling a new accreditation scheme for surgical hubs as part of an NHS England pilot that will run until March.
Revealed: Four trusts added to NHSE ‘help list’
NHS England has revealed the latest list of trusts which it has identified as needing the most support to meet electives and cancer targets.
Neighbouring trusts placed in ‘special measures’
NHS England has moved two Devon trusts into its successor for the special measures regime, meaning all of the county’s acute trusts are now in the bottom tier of the oversight framework.
West Country Chronicle: New ICS chief targets ‘immoral’ costs
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Longest diagnostic waits at highest level since covid lockdown
The share of referrals waiting more than three months for a diagnostic test – one of the key problems behind long waits for cancer treatment – is worse than at any point since February 2021, during the second national covid lockdown.
West Country Chronicle: Inside Cornwall’s care capacity row
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Trust mergers need not deliver ‘step change’, says NHSE
NHS England has dropped plans to impose a strict test for trust mergers that would have required organisations to demonstrate a ‘step change’ in quality.
West Country Chronicle: Peninsula edges closer to shared EPR
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Large hospital trusts still missing key crisis support in A&E
Some of the country’s leading acute hospitals are not meeting a key NHS standard for mental health support in emergency departments, HSJ research suggests, with some regions faring better than others.
Revealed: NHS England’s list of trusts with worst elective and cancer problems
Almost a third of acute trusts have been identified by NHS England as being ‘at risk’ of missing key targets for electives and cancer recovery, with some facing ‘periodic calls between ministers and CEOs’, HSJ can reveal.