NHS Improvement 2008/9 Priorities
Cancer
- Prevention across specialties
- Diagnosing cancer earlier
- Ensuring better treatment
- Living with/beyond cancer – survivorship
- Reducing inequalities
- Delivering care in the most appropriate setting – inpatient management programme
Diagnostics
Radiology
- Challenged sites
- Stroke 4 hour turnaround demonstration sites
Pathology
- Continue to and complete work with pathology pilot sites
- Improving pathology services using Lean principles to improve turnaround times
Screening
- 2 week turnaround cervical screening by 2010 (30 sites)
- Cardiac screening
Heart
Prevention & earlier diagnosis
- Across specialty prevention programme
- Screening/vascular risk assessment
- Rehabilitation
- NICE guidance
- Link to AF/Stroke
Delivering sustainable pathways
- Delivery 18 weeks
- Echo/diagnostic waits
- Access to surgery
New models of care
- Emergency & acute care/long term conditions/chronic disease
- Heart failure
- Chapter 8
- Reperfusion
- Palliative care
Stroke
- Supporting the establishment of stroke care networks
- Capturing and publishing new and existing best practice
- Working in demonstration sites in 5 key areas
- Managing risk
- TIA
- Acute stroke
- Rehabilitation
- Transfer of care
- Training, educational and commissioning events