Summary
This report,
'State
of Healthcare 2007: Improvements and Challenges in Services in England and
Wales’ (HC 97), is the fourth annual State of Healthcare Report from the
Healthcare Commission.
The Healthcare Commission is the
independent watchdog for England. Its function is to assess and report on the
quality and safety of services provided by the NHS and independent sector.
This Report sets out the findings of recent assessment work, focusing on the
2006/07 financial year, and makes six key recommendations to Government and
those providing and purchasing healthcare.
These recommendations focus
on the need to:
- Improve the planning and commissioning of services
- Improve access outside the waiting time targets
- Promote a
culture of safety more effectively
- Improve healthcare for children and
young people
- Demonstrate more sensitivity to the individual needs of
patients and users of services
- Use information better.
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