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NHS England responds to CQC State of Care report

In response to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) State of Care report, Professor Sir Stephen Powis, NHS National Medical Director, said: “As this report acknowledges, NHS staff faced an unprecedented combination of pressures last year including a record 25.3 million A&E attendances, 14 million more GP appointments and tens of thousands more mental health appointments, […]

Improving discharge and access to urgent care

For decades we have known that many patients can receive better, safer, more convenient care outside hospital and so backing these models can give a better experience for patients and avoid unnecessary admissions and improve discharge. We will do this by expanding and better joining up new types of care outside hospital and expanding virtual […]

Integrated urgent and emergency care

Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care (UEC) services To support recovery, the UEC plan sets out a number of ambitions, including: Patients being seen more quickly in emergency departments: with the ambition to improve to 76% of patients being admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours by March 2024, with further improvement in […]

Millions of patients to benefit from care at home thanks to NHS community response teams 

Millions more people will benefit from quicker care at home thanks to the boosted rollout of healthcare teams in the community, as part of the NHS plan to recover urgent and emergency care services. Almost a quarter of a million people (226,895) have received urgent medical support from home – many avoiding a hospital stay […]

Guidance for emergency departments: initial assessment

Introduction The 2022 to 2023 NHS planning guidance specifies the need for more structured streaming arrangements between urgent treatment centres (UTCs) and emergency departments (EDs), and as such they must have robust processes that match patients with the service most suited to meet their clinical need; for example, a UTC (which may or may not […]

Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC)

The following hospital trusts have worked with the NHS nationally to safely test the urgent and emergency care proposals: Cambridge University Hospitals Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Frimley Health Imperial College Healthcare Kettering General Hospital Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Mid Yorkshire Hospitals North Tees and Hartlepool Nottingham University Hospitals Plymouth Hospitals Poole Hospital Portsmouth Hospitals Rotherham […]

Wide support for more comprehensive urgent care indicators

Patients, clinicians and the public have welcomed proposals for a comprehensive set of indicators for urgent care. The updated standards aim to capture what matters clinically to patients, end hidden waits and reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19. The proposed bundle of 10 measures takes account of changes in the way that urgent and emergency […]

Better Care Fund support offer

About the Support Programme Through its national support programme, the BCF is committed to ensuring that local areas have the right support available to them as they work towards improving integration between health, housing and social care services. Following the completion of a recent tender exercise we have moved to a two year funding arrangement, […]

NHS seeks views on next steps for assessing urgent care

Patients, clinicians and the public are being invited to give their views on a comprehensive set of indicators for urgent care. The updated standards aim to capture what matters clinically and to patients, end hidden waits and reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19. This is the next stage in a developmental process first initiated in […]

Rapid deployment of emergency and outpatient ophthalmology video consultation services at Moorfields Eye Hospital

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest providers of ophthalmology services in Europe. Between 2018 and 2019, the trust handled early 800,000 patient encounters, resulting in around 100,000 patients attending its main accident and emergency (A&E) department or an emergency satellite clinic. The COVID-19 pandemic […]