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Winter pressures: what's going on behind the scenes?

Fisher, Elizabeth

Winter pressures: what's going on behind the scenes? - London Nuffield Trust 2016 - Quality watch .

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NHS staff are working in a heavily resource-constrained environment andfacing increasing demand for care. In this report we examined 15 keyindicators of performance of the NHS in England over the most pressuredtime of year – winter (November to March) – focusing on 2014-2015, aswell as looking back over the last five years. At the time of analysis, data forthe winter 2015-16 were not yet available. While the winter of 2014–15was mild, in some areas the performance of the NHS deteriorated,and in others it held up.