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Jan 30, 2023 · The two-year delivery plan for recovery comes amid record demand for NHS services, with the latest data showing more A&E attendances than ever before, growing numbers of the most serious ambulance call outs, and millions of NHS 111 calls a month over winter.
- Two-Year Delivery Plan
Ambulances getting to patients quicker: with improved...
- Two-Year Delivery Plan
- Increasing urgent and emergency care capacity. We will need to increase the number of beds and ambulances if we want to reduce time spent in A&E and ensure hospitals are not as full.
- Increase workforce size and flexibility. Ambition. NHS staff have faced immense pressures in recent years during the pandemic, and recovery will impose new ones.
- Improving discharge. Although having more hospital beds and more staff will help, it is also important to make sure patients are not in hospital for longer than necessary.
- Expanding care outside hospital. The challenge of recovering urgent and emergency services also presents an opportunity. For decades we have known that many patients can receive better, safer, more convenient care outside hospital.
2 days ago · In 2023/24 the NHS took further steps to improve services, address the long-standing treatment gap and respond to pressures from increased prevalence and demand for mental health services, including: during 2023/24, 788,108 Children and Young People aged 0 to 17 received at least one contact from an NHS funded mental health service (94% of the 840,254 target).
Dec 18, 2023 · A&E attendances in 2023/24 were 5% higher than pre-pandemic in 2019/20. However, resources to treat A&E patients have not kept pace with demand. For example, although admissions from major A&E departments have increased by 31% since 2011/12, the number of general and acute beds has fallen by 1%.
- Workforce
- Digital
- NHS Providers view
- Operational performance across core services and improving system flow
- Annex – national NHS objectives 2023/24
The guidance asks all systems to refresh system workforce plans to increase productivity, deploy staff more flexibly through digital solutions, improve staff experience and retention via a range of national strategies, ensure there is adequate clinical placement capacity, and implement the Kark recommendations. NHSE also plans to increase workforce...
To improve digital capabilities, more providers are expected to operationalise electronic health records and should work towards developing a population health and planning data platform. NHSE will provide targeted funding to enable ICSs to meet minimum digital capabilities and foundations. NHSE will also procure a federated data platform accessibl...
Trusts and their partners will welcome the acknowledgement upfront of how difficult the current context is. We also welcome NHSE’s engagement with the sector in co-developing and streamlining these priorities. Below we have outlined our analysis of the ambitions and priorities across operational performance, financial planning, mental health, syste...
The recovery target for A&E looks reasonable and proportionate given current pressures. It is welcome that NHSE is taking a long term view towards recovering the 95%, four hour A&E target over a number of years. Increasing physical capacity and reducing delayed discharges will be key to freeing up capacity and ensuring bed occupancy does not rise a...
NHSE asks ICBs and providers to review the UEC and general practice access recovery plans, and the single maternity delivery plan for further detail on the objectives above when published.
Mar 26, 2024 · There are significant challenges for the NHS ahead: cutting waiting lists, reducing A&E and ambulance waiting times, and improving patient access to primary care. We are focused on delivering...
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Apr 1, 2024 · More than 250 patients a week could be dying unnecessarily, due to long waits in A&E in England, according to analysis of NHS data.