Professor Keith Willett, NHS England’s Director for Acute Episodes of Care, and who is also leading Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review, explains how and why 7-Day Services could be made to work across the NHS. Having introduced 24/7 services with resident consultants while heading the John Radcliffe orthopaedic trauma clinic at […]
Professor Keith Willett is today taking part in a live online debate about seven day services. The question and answer session will take place on the HSJ’s website and is part of its on-going coverage of the seven day services debate. It recently ran an online “conversation” about 24/7 care and received more than 6,000 […]
This document provides data on the results for individual NHS trusts against the four priority 7 day hospital services clinical standards.
Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust enabled provision of a community and community hospital based stroke rehabilitation therapy service seven days a week.
A Seven Day Services case study.
This data was collected as part of a self assessment exercise by NHS hospitals against the seven day services priority clinical standards.
Professor Norman Williams, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Seven Day Consultant Presence Care Group Chair and President of the Royal College of Surgeons, calls for collective responsibility: Illness is no respecter of time or boundaries. It can occur anywhere, at any time of the day or night, and a sudden onset of sickness or pain […]