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Last chance to have your say on the Urgent and Emergency Care Review
Take your opportunity to have your say on NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review before it closes to comments this Sunday (11 August). Please contribute and give us your views.
Urgent and emergency care in London
The NHS in London is responding to patient and staff concern at the dip in A&E performance in spring 2013, by focussing on ways to improve the responsiveness of services to those who need them by improving waiting times at A&E, and by improving how community services respond to ensure that patients are seen and treated quickly […]
Keogh review update
Details of the Keogh Review into the Quality of Care and Transparent Treatment by 14 Hospital Trusts in England have been published. In a statement to the House of Commons today, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, gave the background to the independent review undertaken by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s Medical Director. The findings of […]
Independent review of Major Trauma Networks reveals increase in patient survival rates
NHS England today has welcomed the findings of an independent audit that shows 20 per cent more patients are now surviving severe trauma since the introduction of Major Trauma Networks in 2010. Results from the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) national audit show that 1 in 5 patients who would have died before the […]
Statement from Professor Keith Willett, National Director for Acute Episodes of care, NHS England, on NHS England’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care
I welcome the opportunity to appear before the Health Select Committee to lay out the evidence behind NHS England’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care. Together with senior colleagues Professor Sir Bruce Keogh and Dame Barbara Hakin, we are not only taking our message to Parliament and talking to MPs, but this is also a chance […]
NHS England asks patients, the public and staff to help shape the future of urgent and emergency care
NHS England is today asking patients, public and NHS staff to help shape the future of urgent and emergency care services. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review was announced in January this year. Its aim is to develop a national framework to build a safe, more efficient system, 24 hours a day, […]
NHS support plan launched to help hospital and A&E departments keep waiting times in check
Plans to strengthen performance in urgent and emergency care are being put in place across the country to help hospital A&E departments meet demand and tackle waiting time pressures. Read the A&E improvement plan and accompanying letter to staff. (these documents are no longer available here but can be found on the National Archives website) […]
Detailed data published on first hospitals in Keogh Review
Detailed data about the first four of the 14 hospitals involved in the Keogh Review into mortality rates have been made public. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s national review team has analysed information from across the NHS about all of the 14 hospital trusts who were identified in February as having had higher-than-expected mortality rates for […]
Clinicians and patients to begin review visits at mortality outlier hospitals
Experienced teams of doctors, nurses and patient representatives are set to make their first visits to hospitals as part of the Keogh Review. Led by Regional Medical and Nursing Directors of NHS England, review teams will visit the 14 Trusts whose mortality ratios have shown higher-than-expected rates for the past two years. Site visits for […]
Phased resumption of children’s heart surgery at Leeds Hospital agreed
Reassurance given on immediate safety issues but hospital asked to improve monitoring of care Children’s heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary can begin a phased restart on Wednesday April 10, NHS England said on Monday April 8. It follows completion of the first-stage of a review by a multi-disciplinary independent clinical team which has been […]