Understanding the Performance and Potential of Specialist Hospitals

Understanding the Performance and Potential of Specialist Hospitals
UCL Partners and the Innovation Agency 5 November 2018

• A review of around one-third of England’s 21 specialist trusts looked at why they consistently score higher than their counterparts in ratings for performance and satisfaction. 
• The review recommends seven ways in which local systems can benefit more widely from the role of specialist trusts. 
• The review focused mainly on the North West and London where there are clusters of specialist trusts, to explore the reasons for higher performance indicators – and to identify whether there is potential for them to do more. 

The recommendations are:

NHS Performance: Cancer

NHS performance, and progress on the implementation of ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’
NHS England Board meeting 8 February 2018, paper 7
Extracts:

• 11-18. An update of NHS performance and progress around Cancer including 2WW, 62 day standard, radiotherapy modernisations, early diagnosis, Faster Diagnosis Standard, personalised follow up after cancer treatment, new multidisciplinary rapid diagnostic and assessment centres.
• 37. "within Specialised Commissioning, latest forecasts show an expectation of £394m of efficiencies, an increase of £68m (21%) on the 2016/17 delivery of £326m. "