All Acute care articles – Page 22
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HSJ LocalStretched A&E staff ‘rarely saw exec team’, review finds
Trust executives and senior managers have been criticised by a former national director for their lack of support for an under-pressure A&E.
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NewsNew number one trust CEO revealed
The overarching theme of HSJ’s 2023 ranking of the NHS’s leading provider trust chief executives is one of change. Twenty-four of the names in the top 50 are new when compared to the 2022 list, although some have appeared in the rankings during previous years. In association with ...
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NewsFormer NHSE chief named chair of two more trusts
A former NHS chief executive is taking the helm at two more acute trusts in the West Midlands, it has been announced.
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NewsPatients ‘unaware of strike’ as some hospitals report ‘busiest day’
Acute trusts are reporting high demand at emergency departments despite junior doctor strikes, which in some cases threaten to lead to overflowing wards and long ambulance handover delays.
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News‘Substantial’ leadership and behavioural issues at major trust, review finds
A review into allegations of bullying and poor culture at University Hospitals Birmingham has revealed “substantial” concerns about culture, behaviour, leadership and governance, a council report reveals.
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NewsNHSE admits elective impact as trust chiefs warn of dangers of doctors’ strike
Ministers and NHS England have not sufficiently warned the public of the risk to patient harm posed by next week’s junior doctors strike, some of the NHS’s most senior trust chief executives have warned.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsThe best and worst acute trusts to work at, according to staff
Which trusts receive the highest recommendations from staff as a place to work? HSJ has analysed the full results of today’s 2022 NHS Staff Survey for general acute and acute/community trusts.
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HSJ PartnersUrgent action is needed to tackle rising inequalities in respiratory care
When it comes to respiratory diseases, rising inequalities are a source of concern for the NHS, and inequalities persist when it comes to care and treatment
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NewsNine groups charged with ‘acceleration’ of provider collaboratives by NHSE
NHS England has chosen nine provider collaboratives to take the lead in ‘accelerating’ the development of the approach across the service.
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News‘Local management’ harder in ‘enormous’ trusts, says new NHS Providers chief
The new chief executive of NHS Providers has told HSJ he will champion the development of provider collaboratives in the role, and stressed there is no ‘schism’ between them and integrated care systems.
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HSJ LocalChair retires after contentious trust takeover
The joint chair of two Midlands hospitals is stepping down after a four-year term.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in December 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsPayment by results transition ‘painful’, Mackey admits
NHS England has ‘wrinkles to iron out’ with the elective recovery funding guidance, but national director Sir Jim Mackey has dismissed some concerns about the new regime as ‘nonsense’.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Bewilderment over new elective targets
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentWhen not to collaborate
The fashionable stance for any NHS strategy at the moment is to set out the highest number of partnerships possible to get involved in, at the risk of no collaboration properly adding value, writes Richard Taunt
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HSJ Local‘Massively reduced’ length of stay emerging at much criticised new hospital, says CEO
The CEO of a troubled trust has said evidence is emerging of ‘massively reduced’ length of stay in a new hospital criticised for being too small.
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NewsScandal trust CEO ‘proud of staff’ who embraced criticism
The chief executive of a trust embroiled in the NHS’s biggest maternity scandal says staff have tried to embrace and understand the criticism they have received, and insists the culture of the organisation has started to change.
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NewsBMA issues ‘unaffordable’ medical locum rate card
The British Medical Association has issued a locum pay rate card for junior doctors, which trust bosses have described as ‘unaffordable’ and ‘unilateral’.
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NewsTrusts ‘coping better with strikes’ and on track to eliminate 78-week waits, says NHSE director
Trusts are getting better at coping with industrial action and are still on track to hit the national target of eliminating the backlog of 78-week waiters, an NHS England director has told staff.