The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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NewsTrust picks US patient record supplier
One of the seven NHS trusts still relying on paper records has selected a provider for its electronic patient record.
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News13 trusts trial procurement process designed to ‘save billions’
Thirteen trusts are piloting a procurement system that places less emphasis on price.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Last of the £2bn laggards
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by Ben Clover and Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsBest and worst for hospital experience named by CQC
More patients reported a “good” experience of inpatient care in 2024, even though most trusts have still not caught up with pre-pandemic performance, a Care Quality Commission survey has revealed.
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NewsSpecialist trust appoints CEO
A specialist trust has apppointed its interim as substantive chief executive.
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NewsCoroners reveal concerns over trust safety investigations
Trusts are beginning to run parallel safety investigations because a compulsory new national process does not meet the demands of coroners, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE pays consultants £13.3m to help digital laggard trusts
NHS England has awarded a firm a £13.3m contract to provide “tiger teams” to help a handful of trusts install their first electronic patient record.
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NewsRevealed: The seven trusts that will miss delayed tech deadline
Seven trusts have confirmed they will miss the March 2026 deadline for having an electronic patient record in place, with some still using paper records, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2021: HSJ Value Pilot Project of the Year
WINNER: Tower Hamlets CCG (EQUIP & Patient and Public Engagement Team), The Barkantine Practice, Tower Hamlets ELFT Recovery College, Well Communities University of East London, NHS England Always Events, Tower Hamlets CVS, Tower Hamlets Council (Public Health), Mind in Tower Hamlets and Newham, Tower Hamlets Health Watch, Darzi Fellowship Programme ...
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NewsAcute trust forced to cancel electives after covid surge
A major trust in the North East has started cancelling elective operations after a surge in covid and other urgent and emergency patients.
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NewsGPs receive 'urgent' call to volunteer for work in crisis-hit ITU
GPs in Birmingham have been sent an “urgent” plea to assist in their acute trust’s crisis hit critical care services, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalExecutives all white in city where 40pc of population is BAME
Every current executive director at the five NHS trusts in Birmingham is white, despite more than 40 per cent of the city’s population being from a black, Asian or ethnic minority background.
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NewsOnly six of 200 NHS private units signed up to complaints watchdog
Just six of the NHS’ more than 200 private patient units are signed up to the independent complaints adjudicator, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalTrust appoints interim chair following MPs' criticism
A trust in the West Midlands has appointed an interim chair, after facing criticism from MPs over the reappointment of its previous chair.
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NewsExclusive: NHS trusts dismiss Brexit impact on staff retention
NHS trusts are not expecting disruption to services caused by EU staff leaving because of Brexit, according to analysis by HSJ.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Cancer Care
Winner Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Improving the safety of chemotherapy prescribing through implementation of a standardised electronic assessment proforma
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CommentLong waits soar as hospitals struggle to admit
Over one year waiters shot up by 20 per cent, as admission rates slumped in the face of record A&E pressures.
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HSJ LocalDame Julie Moore dismisses further hospital takeover
Dame Julie Moore has dismissed suggestions of another takeover of a neighbouring trust but says the boundaries between acute providers are “blurring” across Birmingham and Solihull.
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CommentShocking deterioration in RTT waiting times
Elective RTT waiting times shot up by over a week in December, in the fastest monthly increase since 2010, notes Rob Findlay
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NewsWaiting times steady despite slowdown in admissions
Yet another large trust stopped reporting its referral to treatment data, which clouded the picture for the latest November figures and raised non-reported waiting lists to a new record.