Creating the new NHS Prime Minister

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Creating the new NHS Prime Ministers
Presentation 24th April 2006
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Increased staff and pay

• More staff, better paid

• Salary in 2006/7 if increases since 1997 only
  kept pace with inflation 17,409 compared to
  24,803

Source Department of health
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Waiting times
Number of Patients Waiting more than 6 months
Source Department of health
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Faster operations
Source Department of health
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More operations
Source Department of health
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Case study heart disease

• Waits for heart surgery are down to less than
  three months. In March 2000 there were 2,800
  people waiting over six months and it was not
  uncommon for patients to wait up to two years.
  The average waiting time for heart procedures is
  down by a third since 1998/9.
• Around 70,000 cardiac procedures were performed
  in 2004-05 compared with 40,983 in 1998/99 an
  increase of 59 in activity.
• In 2004, there were 15,300 fewer deaths from
  coronary heart disease than in 1997 a reduction
  of 35 since the baseline assessment of 1995-7.
  Over the course of the seven years since 1997 an
  estimated 83,000 lives have been saved.

Source Department of health
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Case study cancer

• Cancer deaths down by nearly 14 in the last
  seven years, saving around 43,000 lives saved.
• 600,000 additional women are being screened for
  breast cancer.
• Cancer consultants has increased by 43.7 since
  1997 an increase of 1,378 consultants.
• Since 1997 17.2 more diagnostic radiographers
  and 24.6 more therapy radiographers .
• Since April 2000 146 new MRI scanners, 135
  Linear Accelerators, 224 CT scanners and over 730
  items of breast screening equipment.
• Over 99 of suspected cancer cases seen by a
  specialist within two weeks of being referred by
  their GP (up from 63 in 1997)

Source Department of health
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Case study no winter crisis 2005/6

• Highest ever uptake of flu vaccine - more than
  75 of people over 65 having the vaccine
• An increase in critical care capacity - 3,233
  critical care beds available, 37 more than 6
  years previously
• Kept to 4 hour target for waits in A E. In
  1996 not unusual to have cases of 24 hour trolley
  waits. 98 of patients are now seen in 4 hours
• Cancelled operations - between October and
  December 2005 only 14,818 operations were
  cancelled (1 of all elective admissions) - 20
  lower than the same period 5 years ago

Source Department of health
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More lives being saved from 1997 to 2010

• Cancer target 20reduction CHD target 40
  reduction

Source Department of health
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Public attitudes

• Good personal experience of the NHS 81 of
  hospital users were satisfied with their last
  visit MORI, 11/05
• 70 said good service provided in NHS based on
  their own experience Populus, 03/06

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Expert opinion
Commentary from 24th April 2006 Patricia
Hewitt was right to say that there have been
significant areas of improvement in the NHS.
Certainly our work at the Kings Fund examining
the the NHS since Labour came to power in 1997
suggests that there really have been some areas
where the NHS improvement has gone up really
quite significantly. Richard Lewis (Senior
Fellow, Kings Fund) there have been huge
improvements in the Health Service over recent
years. Waiting lists are really down waiting is
almost a thing of the pastSo I think there have
been huge improvements that patients have
actually seen. Alistair Henderson (Deputy
Director, National Health Service Employers
Organisation) Overall theres no doubt there
has been huge improvements in the NHS. The
reforms have been successful in many places and
there has been an increase in the number of staff
working in the NHS, particularly in the number of
nurses. Rachel Downey (Editor, Nursing Times)
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Conclusion

• Every developed country is facing the triple
  challenge of rising public expectations,
  demographic change and scientific breakthroughs.
• If we hold our nerve and deliver reform as well
  as investment, the NHS will meet those challenges
  more fairly and more effectively.
• And we will have protected the NHSs fundamental
  values for the next generation.