Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Sharp rise in NHS waiting times

8:42 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | Edit Post

Report to the King

Fund following the publication of the Department of Health figures showed increases of 48% of violations of the law of NHS binding targets

The number of patients waiting more than the recommended maximum of 18 weeks for NHS treatment increased by 48% since last year.

figures released by the Ministry of Health came as a separate report by the King's Fund found that in over 45 hospitals, more than 10% of patients were not admitted to be 18 weeks referred by their GPs, violation of legally binding targets in the National Health Service Constitution. The numbers have doubled over the previous year.

The report found that although the NHS in general had failed to achieve the waiting times and infection in spite of the hospitals to find savings of between 6% and 7% this year, the hidden "considerable variation" in a local level.

Using government data, the Guardian revealed that 28,635 patients in England who were treated at a hospital in the NHS in August had been waiting over 18 weeks, compared with 19,355 in the same month 2010 - an increase of 48%.

King Fund, a think tank of leading health, according to this analysis, noting that "although the average waiting time remain within the target range, one in four hospitals have no achieve the goal. "

Rob Findlay, head of the waiting time the NHS business guru, said that in St. George, Kingston, Bath, Guy and St. Thomas, Sheffield and South London Hospital Trust had " 1000 list of patients waiting more than a year. "

  • To this extent, the expected numbers are the largest since the coalition came to power last year, when the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, revised or reduced several objectives of the NHS time to Waiting.
  • A measure of change was the goal of this work is that you should not wait more than four hours in A & E, with the threshold lowered from 98% to 95%. King Fund found that 29 hospitals did not comply with this measure. In Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, a third of 13,000 patients using the hospital A & E waiting room more than four hours.
The report also found that "45 hospitals reported higher levels of C difficile infection than the same period last year." John Appleby of the King's Fund, said: " Infection rates are an indication that hospitals are under pressure due to more patients through the system, you end up with higher bed occupancy is when you can get higher rates of infection. .. "
Appleby according to a study of 23 NHS finance directors had shown "15 are pessimistic about the financial situation of the local health economy, with only three optimistic about it." Most of the CFOs surveyed by NHS King's Fund, are "uncertain or concerned" if your trust will meet your savings goals, with more expected to meet the objectives equally difficult to 4% or more next year .

Appleby said: "We are witnessing a minority of trusts are struggling to keep waiting lists down and reduce nosocomial infections in the future, the challenge will be to maintain performance and improvements in productivity and tighten fund other ..

"Six months after a record four years of financial constraints, the pressures are already emerging in a small number of trusts highlights the challenge facing the NHS."


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