Combined Performance Summary: January – February 2019

Combined Performance Summary: January – February 2019 NHS England has published its Combined Performance Summary, which provides data on key performance measures for January and February of this year. Here we show some of these statistics and how they compare with previous years. Nuffield Trust

See also:

• Worrying picture of NHS performance at end of winter The Health Foundation
• The NHS this winter: looking beneath the national view The Health Foundation
• 'A hidden crisis in hospitals up and down the country' - The King's Fund responds to NHS combined performance data The King's Fund
• NHS hospitals need plan to tackle backlog of patients  Royal College of Surgeons
• Cancer waiting times breached for 1,126 days in England BBC News
• NHS 'must take urgent action' to clear hospitals backlog The Daily Mail
• NHS crisis: A&E waits spiral to worst ever level AGAIN The Daily Mail
• One in four cancer patients wait two months for treatment, as NHS performance hits record low The Daily Telegraph
• Cancer treatment waiting times see ‘concerning spike’ as NHS plans to ditch key measures The Independent

Payments and contracting for integrated care: the false promise of the self-improving health system

Payments and contracting for integrated care: the false promise of the self-improving health system Why should the new payment systems being developed to support integrated care be any more successful than previous ones? This report calls for urgent reform of the system for paying and contracting services in the NHS. The King's Fund

Government response to the Independent Breast Screening Review recommendations

Government response to the Independent Breast Screening Review recommendations The Independent Breast Screening Review looked into an incident in the breast screening programme in England, which resulted in thousands of women aged between 68 and 71 not being invited to their final breast screening. The review published its report in December 2018. This document sets out the government’s response to each recommendation made in the report. The government has accepted all the recommendations. Department of Health and Social Care

England’s Chief Nurse sets out long term vision for NHS nursing

England’s Chief Nurse sets out long term vision for NHS nursing England’s top nurse today pledged to ensure the voices of nurses and midwives will be valued and heard across the NHS.

During her maiden speech at the chief nursing officer (CNO) Summit in Birmingham, Ruth May said that the profession, while often considered by the public to be the most trusted, is too often undervalued and pledged to fight for the voice of nurses to be influential across the NHS. NHS England

Junior doctor suicide makes me worry about how I'll cope in the job

Junior doctor suicide makes me worry about how I'll cope in the job As a medical student, I can get support when I need it. That isn’t the case for junior doctors struggling with mental health

I was four months into my clinical training as a medical student when I first encountered a suicide.

It wasn’t a patient. The Guardian

Matt Hancock mocked after saying that some nurses still stand up when a doctor enters a room, as NHS worker quips 'it isn't Downton Abbey'

Matt Hancock mocked after saying that some nurses still stand up when a doctor enters a room, as NHS worker quips 'it isn't Downton Abbey' Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been mocked after saying that some nurses still have to stand up when doctors enter the room in some NHS organisations.

In a speech to the Chief Nursing Officer for England's summit in Birmingham on Thursday, Mr Hancock praised the hard work and dedication of nurses and said they "often make better leaders than doctors". The Daily Telegraph

See also:

• Nurses are mission-critical to culture change in the NHS Department of Health
• Health secretary prompts ridicule after claiming NHS nurses stand up when doctors enter room The Independent

UK is 'breaking UN rules' by not giving free NHS healthcare to undocumented migrant children

UK is 'breaking UN rules' by not giving free NHS healthcare to undocumented migrant children The UK is breaking UN rules by not giving free NHS treatment to undocumented migrant children, according to experts.

A group of seven academics, including a Public Health England spokesperson, say the health service must change track and improve its care for children.

As many as 65,000 children who were born in the UK may be being denied free NHS care because of a 'hostile environment' policy, their editorial said. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Charging undocumented migrant children for NHS healthcare: implications for child health Archives of Disease in Childhood 
• NHS 'hostile environment' and charges limiting care to children of migrants in breach of UN pledges, doctors say The Independent
• Child migrants denied universal health coverage OnMedica