cancellations due Nursing staff for Bank staff use beds to winter bed crisis Sleep Physiologist Sept 2016 to May Locum Physiologist in post 2017 required for backlog and to Limited Physiology maintain service staff Business case for sustainability No other local services Business case for sustainability of service 4) Urodynamics - Gaps in Consultant WLI sessions cover. Retirement Consultant appointed to. Women’s services and sickness Locum Consultant in post Nurse consultant to cover retired Consultant to return from Staffing shortages Nurse practitioner sickness immanently. due to retirement, newly recruited need Nurse consultant post sickness. training and advertised supervision Nurse practitioner working independently Cancer Waits Due to the timing of submissions, cancer data runs one month behind the majority of performance data, this paper therefore reports the September 2016 and Quarter 2 position. Appendix 1 shows the Directorate cancer compliance. All breaching services are flagged to ensure that Directors have full view of the high risk areas. The Breast Symptomatic Two Week Wait target and the 2WW Suspected Cancer target continue to be achieved. There was a slight increase in the 2ww suspected cancer referrals for September, particularly in Skin and Breast Symptomatic. There were no reported capacity issues and all breaches were reported as patient choice. The projected outturn for 2WW Suspected Cancer referrals 2016/17 shows an overall increase of 4.7% in comparison to 2015/16. The 62 day target for September and Quarter 2 was achieved. September performance was reported at 85% so only just reaching the required 85% standard. Quarter 2 was achieved at 87.9%. Whilst performance is nationally reported at Trust level, internal reporting by tumour group showed those falling considerably below the 85% standard were Lung (69.2%) and HPB (72%). These and a number of other tumour groups remain a cause for concern.
cancellations due to winter bed crisis Limited Physiology staff No other local services Business case for sustainability of service Nursing staff for beds Bank staff use Sleep Physiologist Sept 2016 to May 2017 Locum Physiologist in post required for backlog and to maintain service Business case for sustainability 4) Urodynamics - Women’s services Staffing shortages due to retirement, sickness. Gaps in Consultant cover. Retirement and sickness Nurse consultant retired Nurse practitioner newly recruited need training and supervision WLI sessions Consultant appointed to. Locum Consultant in post to cover Consultant to return from sickness immanently. Nurse consultant post advertised Nurse practitioner working independently Cancer Waits Due to the timing of submissions, cancer data runs one month behind the majority of performance data, this paper therefore reports the September 2016 and Quarter 2 position. Appendix 1 shows the Directorate cancer compliance. All breaching services are flagged to ensure that Directors have full view of the high risk areas. The Breast Symptomatic Two Week Wait target and the 2WW Suspected Cancer target continue to be achieved. There was a slight increase in the 2ww suspected cancer referrals for September, particularly in Skin and Breast Symptomatic. There were no reported capacity issues and all breaches were reported as patient choice. The projected outturn for 2WW Suspected Cancer referrals 2016/17 shows an overall increase of 4.7% in comparison to 2015/16. The 62 day target for September and Quarter 2 was achieved. September performance was reported at 85% so only just reaching the required 85% standard. Quarter 2 was achieved at 87.9%. Whilst performance is nationally reported at Trust level, internal reporting by tumour group showed those falling considerably below the 85% standard were Lung (69.2%) and HPB (72%). These and a number of other tumour groups remain a cause for concern.