Department of Health and Social Care

“The government recognises that there is a need to improve specialist community drug and alcohol services for children and young people. We hope that the £532million of supplemental funding that we are investing in the delivery of the drug strategy will allow local authorities to meet the needs of residents that have substance misuse needs - including children and young people.”

“The Implementation Working Group has had two meetings in March 2023 and is making good progress with a further meeting planned in mid May 2023.”

“The Implementation Working Group has had two meetings in March 2023 and is making good progress with a further meeting planned in mid-May 2023.”

“the Isotretinoin Implementation Working Group mentioned in letter has met three times, with the third meeting occurring on 12 May 2023”

“Audits have been completed in Geriatrics and Frailty wards and the findings were presented at the monthly Clinical Group Quality & Safety meeting and the Quality Governance Steering Group. Across the 9 audited areas, over the period of three months (March, April and May 2023), the audits demonstrated that 87% of patients' fluid charts were completed, recorded on vital pac and available to review. Each patient that did not have fluid chart completed and recorded on vital pac (due to a new admission”

“The Trust has subsequently been the subject of an NHS England-commissioned independent investigation into the failings within the Trust's services reported at the Edenfield Centre and the failure within the organisation to appropriately manage concerns and mitigate against patient harm. The investigation's final report was published in January 2024 and notes that Griffin Ward has now been closed. The Trust has developed an improvement plan, which was updated to reflect the findings of the independent”

“we published our 'Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services' which aims to deliver sustained improvements in waiting times. Our ambitions for this year are to improve A&E waiting times to 78% of patients to be admitted, transferred, or discharged from A&E within four hours by March 2025, and to reduce Category 2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes on average across this fiscal year.”

“We have achieved the ambition of delivering 5,000 more staffed, permanent beds this year compared to 2022-23 plans - backed by £1 1 billion of dedicated funding”

“The ambition is to improve A&E wait times to 78% of patients being admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours by March 2025.”

“we have made £1.6 billion of funding available over two years to support the NHS and local authorities to ensure timely and effective discharge from hospital, helping to free up beds and reduce long waits for admission from A&E.”

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