Sustainability and financial performance of acute hospital trusts

"The Department, NHS England, Monitor and the NHS TDA need to take a more holistic, coordinated approach to tackling trusts’ persistent financial problems and move beyond quick fixes to cut trusts’ spending. Until there is a clear pathway for trusts to get back to financial stability, we cannot be confident that value for money, defined as financial and service sustainability, will be achieved."

Sustainability and financial performance of acute hospital trusts
National Audit Office
December 2015

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How is the NHS performing? Quarterly Monitoring Report

"three-quarters of trust finance directors intend to recruit more permanent nurses in the next six months, suggesting that the NHS is continuing to prioritise quality of patient care despite rising financial pressures."

How is the NHS performing? Quarterly Monitoring Report
J Appleby, J Thompson, J Jabbal
The King's Fund
July 2015


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Are people waiting longer for health care?

"This overview considers the performance of the NHS in England in providing timely access to health care during the current parliament. We look at available data on waiting time targets across key services, including accident and emergency (A&E), ambulances, cancer treatment, secondary care and primary care."

Are people waiting longer for health care?
T Gardner
The Health Foundation
March 2015

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Access to hospital care: is the NHS on target?

"Our fourth policy briefing in the run-up to the General Election 2015 examines how hospital trusts in England are performing against six national targets. The paper argues against the notion that dips in performance can be attributed to a handful of poorly performing hospital trusts, and finds there has been deterioration across the board in some measures."

Access to hospital care: is the NHS on target?
H Dorning, I Blunt
Nuffield Trust
March 2015

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How is the NHS performing? January 2015

"Slightly more than 4 out of 10 trust finance directors forecast an overspend by the end of this year – the highest proportion since our survey began in March 2011 – and just over three-quarters say they are fairly or very concerned about staying within budget by the end of the next financial year."

How is the NHS performing? January 2015: Quarterly Monitoring Report
J Appleby, J Thompson, J Jabbal
The King's Fund

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How is the NHS performing? October 2014

"Our latest survey of finance directors reveals the highest level of pessimism about the financial position of health organisations since we began surveying in the autumn of 2011. For the first time since we began our quarterly survey, no one expressed any degree of optimism about the financial state of their local health economies over the next year."

How is the NHS performing?: Quarterly Monitoring Report
J Appleby, J Thompson, J Jabbal
The King's Fund
October 2014

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NHS Choices: patient safety

A section on patient safety has been added to the NHS Choices website signposting patients to information on hospital performance and patient safety initiatives. 

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Variations in outcome and costs among NHS providers for common surgical procedures

"We identify variation in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) across hospitals, assess the relationship between the cost and outcomes among NHS hospitals for these procedures, and determine the extent to which variations in outcomes and costs are due to differences in hospital performance."

Variations in outcome and costs among NHS providers for common surgical procedures: econometric analyses of routinely collected data
A Street, N Gutacker, C Bojke, N Devlin, S Daidone
National Institute of Health Research
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2014, 2(1)

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