Hospital care

Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst responds to the latest NHS Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Report data and Estates Returns Information Collection.

David Maguire, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund responds to the latest NHS performance statistics.

Gbemi Babalola, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund, comments on the latest NHS hospital activity figures.

Richard Murray, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, comments on today’s combined performance summary and weekly winter situation reports.

‘Despite a mild winter, today’s figures reveal a hidden crisis in hospitals up and down the country,' says Deborah Ward, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund.

Richard Murray, Chief Executive at The King's Fund, responds to plans to pilot changes to NHS waiting times targets.

'Today’s figures reveal a hidden crisis that is all too real in emergency departments up and down the country,' says Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King's Fund.

‘The first set of winter statistics show the NHS already under tremendous strain and patients waiting longer and longer for care,' says Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King’s Fund.

Today’s report from NHS Improvement on the performance of the NHS provider sector in the second quarter of 2018, is a warning that the NHS is heading for another very tough winter, with rising demand for services and staff shortages taking an increasingly heavy toll on patient care.

'These latest findings, from one of the largest national patient surveys, show patient experience in hospitals is holding up remarkably well and has even seen some improvements since last year particularly around communication between staff and patients.'

The King’s Fund has today responded to the latest winter situation report from NHS England.

Our report finds that NHS plans in some areas to cut hospital beds are undesirable and unachievable.

The inpatient survey in England shows that over the past nine years trusts have seen only a modest improvement in quality of care as judged by patients, says a new report from The King’s Fund and Picker Institute Europe.

Specialist knowledge is too concentrated in hospitals to the detriment of patients, whose increasingly complex needs should be treated closer to home.

NHS performance is holding up well but national statistics mask significant pressures in some local areas, according to the latest quarterly monitoring report on NHS performance published by The King's Fund.

Many NHS hospitals will struggle to deliver productivity improvements essential to maintaining quality and avoiding significant cuts to services, according to the latest quarterly monitoring report on NHS performance published by The King's Fund.

Patients will be able to choose where they are treated from any provider meeting Healthcare Commission standards from 1 April, but a King's Fund's briefing, Free Choice at the Point of Referral, on the latest official data finds the policy has some way to go before it is likely to drive improvements in the quality of hospital services.