The Government set targets on Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC) based on performance in February 2017. With yesterday’s release of the latest NHS statistics, we now have a full year of data and can assess whether the targets that were designed to help the…
The latest NHS statistics on Delayed Transfer of Care show a dip in national performance by 1.4% between December 2017 and January 2018. Overall, delays have fallen by more than 26% since last February. Next month’s data release will therefore be an important test…
NHS England’s latest Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC) figures for December 2017 rode into town last week, and we invited them into the iMPOWER saloon bar to tell a few stories. Firstly, the good news – the rates of DTOC from hospitals continue to…
At a national level, the number of people facing a delayed transfer of care (DTOC) from hospital are continuing to improve. Figures just published for November show that delays fell by 6% between October and November, and have fallen by 22% since February 2017…
Use the iMPOWER iNDEX to see how your local authority is performing against five criteria The pressure to crack the serious issue of Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC) is relentless – and is reminiscent of when hospital Accident & Emergency targets were introduced in…
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