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ICS £230m in the red hails ‘positive’ financial performance
Leaders in Lancashire and South Cumbria searched for positives as they were told the integrated care system would miss its financial plan by £150m.
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Influential CEO retires after tripling size of trust
One of the longest-serving chief executives has announced his retirement following a 12-year stint in which his trust has tripled in size.
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ICSs too focused on patients stuck in A&E, warns CEO
Integrated care systems are too focused on getting mental health patients out of A&E and should do more to improve support from non-mental health providers, a departing trust chief executive has warned.
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Trust ‘fighting losing battle’ over elective waits, CEO admits
A hospital chief executive has blamed a “mind-blowing increase” in cancer referrals for his trust’s deterioration in performance on long elective waits.
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Medic to review dozens of suicides linked to trust
A trust has appointed a chair to lead an independent review into dozens of suicides that were sparked by allegations of record tampering.
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Patient experience is often ‘horrendously poor’ admits trust CEO
A trust chief executive has warned of the “dire” economic challenge facing his system, saying children and young people are already facing “horrendously poor” experiences due to dependency on out of area beds.
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National boss appointed to troubled ICS after ‘serious concerns’ from NHSE
A national director has been drafted in to lead the recovery of a health system over which NHS England has raised “serious concerns”.
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Chair hits out at government delay to mental health deaths inquiry
The chair of an inquiry into the deaths of mental health patients in Essex has said she is “disappointed” at a delay in having its scope confirmed by the health secretary.
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Trust appoints deputy as permanent CEO
A leader who began her career as an admin clerk has been given the top job at an acute trust.
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Review ‘strewn with errors’ gave trust ‘false assurance’ over division lead
An investigation has heavily criticised a royal college review that was “strewn with errors” and gave “false assurances” to trust leaders over a prominent spinal surgeon.
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Long-time provider CEO joins struggling trust
One of the worst performing acute trusts for emergency care has appointed a new interim leader who comes from an eight-year break from English CEO roles.
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Trust’s leadership downgraded to ‘inadequate’
A teaching trust’s leadership has been rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission, as inspectors warned of a “genuine fear” of speaking up and staff feeling unsafe from bullying, sexual harassment, misogyny, and racism.
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Trust at centre of abuse scandal appoints long-serving community CEO
A long-serving community trust CEO has been appointed to lead the scandal-hit mental health provider in Greater Manchester.
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CEO admits ‘risk aversion’ clogging up hospitals
Medics and managers must overcome a system-wide “aversion” to risk after their integrated care system was identified as a national outlier for low numbers of patients discharged home, according to the ICS’s chief executive.
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ICB boss takes charge of acute trust
The deputy CEO of an integrated care board has been given interim charge of one of its acute providers, HSJ has learned.
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ICS freed from ‘intensive’ central oversight for first time
Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System has been lifted out of the lowest category of NHS England’s performance management regime.
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Service with 10-year waits set for overhaul
A mental health trust where waiting times for ADHD assessments reached 10 years attempted to stop running the service amid concern over “untenable” demand pressures, board papers suggest.
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‘Oldest NHS IT system’ to be replaced
An acute/community trust is set to implement a “game-changing” electronic patient record which will replace one of the oldest IT systems in the NHS, according to its chief executive.
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Council scheme could cost trust £1.7m a year
A council’s controversial car parking levy is likely to cost an acute trust £1.65m each year for providing spaces, it has calculated.
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Trust loses ‘outstanding’ rating
An ambulance trust rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission since 2019 has lost the top-tier rating.