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NHS Confederation response to newly published December 2015 NHS performance figures

Phil McCarvill, Deputy Director of Policy, NHS Confederation responds to the performance figures published by NHS England on q1 February 2016

"These figures reflect increasing pressure on all parts of the health service, including acute hospitals, community and primary care services.

They underscore the importance of efforts across the NHS, social care and in the community to transform services and help people get care earlier - including care outside of hospitals when appropriate.

"Hospitals don’t work in isolation and cannot solve issues like cuts to social care, which nevertheless lead to increased demand for hospital beds. Regulators should begin to focus on entire local systems rather than individual organisations, which would help hospitals to address waiting times, ensure patients are able to be seen as quickly as possible and are able to go home when they are ready.”

View report: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/combined-performance-summary/

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