THE QUESTION
Why is the emergency department always behind?
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An improvement takes two years and a chief executive lasts eighteen months
cluster 1
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CLUSTER 1
An improvement takes two years and a chief executive lasts eighteen months
7 votesin focus ↑ · close ✕
Procurement takes longer than the technology lasts
1 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 2
One-year funding buys agency staff, not permanent ones
5 votesdiscuss
Winter money arrives in November for a plan needed in June
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
9 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 3
We have never once been asked to plan for ten years
7 votesdiscuss
The workforce plan was written before the last three years
2 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 4
Nobody is paid for the patient who did not need to come
4 votesdiscuss
Nobody owns the whole patient journey
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
2 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 5
We are measured on activity, so activity is what we produce
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
2 votesdiscuss
Capital and revenue cannot be swapped, so we rent what we could own
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
0 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 6
Staff leave faster than we can hire them
14 votesdiscuss
We report to eleven bodies and none of them to each other
10 votesdiscuss
NOT CLUSTERED
The incentive is to treat, never to prevent
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
10 votesdiscuss
The money for prevention sits in a different organisation
0 votesdiscuss
Every part of the system optimises its own budget
Meaning the recurring case, not one incident.
3 votesdiscuss
A nurse cannot afford to live within an hour of here
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
0 votesdiscuss
Politics changes the target every election
1 votesdiscuss
The data we report is a year old by the time it is published
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
3 votesdiscuss
We compete with the hospital down the road for the same nurses
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
0 votesdiscuss
Every inspection costs six weeks of senior time
2 votesdiscuss
A saving in social care is a cost here and nobody nets it
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
9 votesdiscuss
A ward closed for repair has never reopened
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
0 votesdiscuss
The regulator asks for the target and the auditor asks for the money
0 votesdiscuss
Beds were removed on a model that assumed community care that never came
Meaning the recurring case, not one incident.
0 votesdiscuss
The new system was chosen by people who will not use it
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
0 votes
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discussThe same patients come back within a week
12 votesdiscuss
Nobody may open a bed without permission from three bodies
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
1 votesdiscuss
The estate is older than anyone working in it
4 votesdiscuss
Pay is set nationally and the housing market is not
0 votesdiscuss
Beds are full because nobody can be discharged
10 votesdiscussing (1)
People wait hours in a corridor before anyone sees them
15 votesdiscuss
Training numbers were cut a decade ago and take a decade to fix
0 votesdiscuss
Vacancies are counted as savings in the same month they are a crisis
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
3 votesdiscuss
We cannot see the GP's data and they cannot see ours
2 votesdiscuss