NHS trusts are improving productivity despite huge financial challenges, but need government support, NHS Providers said this week.
Why NHS productivity has fallen in recent years, and what can be done to improve it, has been analysed by The King’s Fund.
There were an estimated 600 million patient contacts with NHS services in 2023/24, the equivalent of 1.7 million interactions with patients every day, according to research by The King’s Fund.
Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, called for ‘a fundamental re-imagining’ of healthcare, in his opening address at NHS ConfedExpo.
The Welsh government has hailed its Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care programme, stating that the new services it provides have been accessed by more than 200,000 people.
The King’s Fund has published two additions to its ‘NHS in a nutshell’ series, the first on social care and the second on NHS waiting times.
In the dynamic landscape of healthcare, the efficiency of emergency departments stands as a critical indicator of overall system effectiveness.
The Scottish government has launched a ‘national engagement’ to collect views on how best to transform health and social care services to meet changing demands.
Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and primary care services in south-east London were hit by a cyber-attack on 3 June.
Public sector funding may still need to rise even with improved public sector productivity, if wage costs grow more quickly than productivity.