Video Consultations in Secondary Care

Many hospitals are not delivering planned care activity to plan. This is impacting their patients, who are waiting longer, their performance (RTT), and their finances. At the same time, core capacity is being underutilised. Increasing throughput in core hours is hard and often runs into resistance: “theatres are busier than ever”, “case-mix is more complex”, “staff are new”, “turnaround times are longer”, “there aren’t enough beds”. So, recovering planned throughput levels ca

There is nothing quite as unifying for a local community than the loss of beds at the local hospital. So it is not surprising that research published by the King’s Fund, which showed that the number of hospital beds in England have more than halved in the past 30 years, caught the headlines last week. But focusing on bed numbers alone does not tell the whole story. There are many reasons why fewer hospital beds may not be a bad thing – especially if it means people are (safel

Amid the headlines of staff shortages, hospital deficits, overwhelmed A&E, and a lack of social care leaving people unable to leave hospital, it is hard to ignore the NHS crisis. And according to the Health Foundation, the NHS funding commitments from all three political parties are inadequate. Demand pressures from a growing and ageing population, and increasing numbers of people with complex chronic health problems such as diabetes, will all add cost pressure. And unlike ot