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HSJ LocalJoint chair appointed across acute and mental health trusts
A new chair has been announced for a teaching hospital trust and its local mental health trust.
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HSJ PartnersGetting healthcare ready for GDPR: watch the video
Steve Johnson – EMEA information security manager for Orion Health – explains what the impending implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation means for healthcare, suggests ways in which NHS leaders can prepare, and details the opportunities this change could bring.
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CommentHorizon Scanning – initiatives impacting on delayed transfers of care
GE Healthcare Finnamore’s Duncan Harper on how DTOCs can be reduced
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NewsNew regulator launches investigation after patient dies
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has launched its fourth investigation after being alerted to a patient’s death after they presented to hospital two weeks after surgery.
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NewsDTOCs reduction drive having 'unintended consequences'
Efforts to cut delayed discharges to free up between 2,000 and 3,000 beds are being hampered by problems with the assessment process for long term care packages, a senior policy expert has warned.
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NewsExclusive: Variation in surgery standards depending on time of day flagged
Standards of care for patients needing emergency bowel surgery vary considerably based on the time of day they have their operation, a new audit has revealed.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Winter, deaths and inequality
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsTrusts miss NHS England A&E performance milestone
Trusts have fallen short of NHS England’s first milestone towards hitting the national emergency performance waiting time target, official figures reveal today.
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HSJ LocalCQC and police investigate trust after patient death
The Care Quality Commission is expected to visit a Brighton hospital today following the death of an elderly inpatient, who is believed to have swallowed cleaning fluid.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: New chief executive for trust with worst A&E in the country
The chief executive of Dartford and Gravesham Trust is to take on the leadership one of the NHS’s most challenged providers.
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HSJ LocalTrust in special measures appoints new chair
England’s only fully integrated health trust, which is in special measures, has promoted one of its non-executive directors to chair of the organisation.
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HSJ LocalDevon trusts to share staff across region
Medical staff will work across trusts in a success regime region under a new system devised by health chiefs to reduce pressure on struggling services.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Pioneering trust partnership names joint exec team
A hospital and mental health trust have confirmed their joint board and management structure, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrusts confirm new shared chief executive
An acute trust and a mental health and community trust have appointed a joint chief executive after forming an alliance to make services more integrated.
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HSJ LocalSpecialist emergency trust's A&E rated inadequate
One of Greater Manchester’s four ‘specialist’ emergency hospitals has had its urgent and emergency care services rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalTrust suspends spinal surgery after two deaths
An acute trust in the North West has suspended its spinal surgery services after four serious incidents – including two patient deaths – were identified over a six month period.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Consultant backlash over patient record system 'disaster'
Outcry from dozens of senior consultants has forced one of the country’s largest teaching hospitals to review its £14m digital patient record system amid fears over patient safety.
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HSJ LocalWorst performing A&E trust appoints new interim chair
The chair of a trust struggling with accident and emergency performance is stepping down, just weeks after the chief executive resigned.
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NewsExclusive: Trust bosses call on government to confirm sustainability cash beyond 2019
NHS trust leaders have called on the government to protect the £1.8bn sustainability fund beyond 2018-19, but say it should not be channelled into commissioning allocations until problems with the national tariff are addressed.
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NewsCQC issues list of A&E safety inspection targets
The Care Quality Commission has set out the eight major priority areas which will underpin its regulation of urgent and emergency care providers this winter