Whistleblower denied mental health treatment after suing nearby trust
A mental health provider has apologised after telling a whistleblower he was being declined treatment due to an employment tribunal he had brought against a neighbouring trust.
Recovering trust appoints new CEO
A trust which exited special measures last year has appointed a new chief executive.
Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target
Only one in five trusts has reached the level of digitisation required by 2025 – more than three years after the target was set, tech chiefs have revealed.
Truss move to cut management would ‘get in way’ of progress, says top CEO
Liz Truss’s desire to talk about cutting management in the NHS will get in the way of more important conversations about the future operating model of the health service, a respected system leader has said.
HSJ Partnership Awards 2022: Most Effective Contribution to Clinical Redesign
WINNER: L&R Medical and South West Yorkshire Partnership FT: Reducing the Burden of Wounds Through Workforce Optimisation
CEO interview: Rob Webster, South West Yorkshire Partnership FT
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
Top trust chief to become full-time ICS leader
Rob Webster is to leave his post as chief executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust to become the full-time lead of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate integrated care system.
HSJ Awards 2020: Chief Executive of the Year
WINNER: Rob Webster, Chief Executive – South West Yorkshire Partnership FT
Revealed: Beds for children hit ‘crisis point’ amid covid demand surge
Availability of inpatient child and adolescent mental health services beds — particularly for eating disorders — has reached ‘crisis point’, with young people left waiting on a standard paediatric ward or at home as demand surged during the covid pandemic.
HSJ80 full list: The most influential people in health
The HSJ80 lists the figures who will exercise the most power and/or influence in the English NHS and health policy over the next 12 months
Government lukewarm on NHS plan to cut covid death risk
Health leaders have called for the routine recording of ethnicity and faith during the registration of deaths to help fight covid-19 – but the government appears to have rejected the idea.
NHSE considers tightening rule to push CCGs to merge
NHS England is considering a stricter approach to clinical commissioning group mergers, which would drive a reduction from 191 to around 40.
Revealed: The trusts testing latest round of emergency targets
New mental health emergency care targets will be trialled across 11 NHS organisations and one social enterprise, NHS England has confirmed.
The biggest set of mergers for a decade
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
Winners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2019
Twenty organisations have been honoured in the 2019 HSJ Value Awards – which recognise and celebrate outstanding improvements in care quality and efficiency made by NHS staff.
Brexit: Trust can operate for 'four days' under food shortage contingency plans
A mental health trust has said it can “operate for four days” by increasing its stock of frozen food and replacing hot meals for patients with cold meals, in the event of food shortages caused by a no-deal Brexit.
Trusts' costs triple amid clinical waste crisis
Nearly 20 NHS trusts are paying three times as much for clinical waste services after their contracts were moved from the company at the centre of the stockpiling row, HSJ can reveal.
Trust spend on compulsory redundancies rises by 8pc
Trust spend on compulsory redundancies increased by 8 per cent — or £3.3m — last year, analysis reveals.