Crisis care for young people

What alternatives are there for young people’s crisis care? A new report by Look Ahead warns young people are unlikely to receive inpatient mental health care unless they ‘have attempted suicide multiple times’ and more alternatives to emergency care in A and E are needed.

Beds in the NHS

Royal College of Emergency Medicine Acute Insight Series

This report shows that an additional 13,000 staffed beds are required in the NHS across the UK to drive meaningful change and improvement. Meaningful change and improvement would constitute a significant improvement in A&E waiting times, ambulance response times, ambulance handover delays, and a return to safe bed occupancy levels.

NHS performance summary: December 2020-January 2021

Monthly round-up of the latest NHS performance data.

Source: KnowledgeShare

NHS England and NHS Digital have published the latest data on key activity and performance measures for December of last year and January of this year. Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports were also published for the first week of February, giving a more up-to-date analysis of how the NHS is coping this winter. They show some of these statistics and how they compare with previous trends.

Read the summary here.