All articles by Alison Moore – Page 18
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NewsSummer crisis deepens as trolley waits hit new high
Performance figures deteriorated to record lows this month as the unprecedented summer NHS crisis deepens, with trolley waits reaching a new high point and the waiting list growing to more than 6.7 million people.
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NewsJust four out of 1,100 lone worker alarms being used by trust workforce
A trust which rented 1,100 lone worker alarms has found just four were in use after a year.
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NewsCyber attack triggers 111 ‘total system outage’
Many NHS 111 services are without a crucial IT system for several days, after a cyber attack on a software supplier.
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NewsNew IT system harms trust’s cancer performance for six months
A trust which is struggling with a new electronic patient record is likely to see cancer performance affected for at least the rest of this year, it has said.
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NewsTrust promotes COO to CEO after less than a year
An acute trust has promoted its chief operating officer, who joined 10 months ago, to chief executive.
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NewsNHSE awards extra ambulance capacity contract
NHS England has awarded a contract for additional ambulance service capacity nationally to help cope with high demand and handover delays, with the capacity available from today.
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NewsPatients kept in A&E for ‘up to three weeks’, CQC finds
Patients experiencing a mental health crisis were kept in a trust’s emergency department for up to three weeks, a Care Quality Commission report has revealed.
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HSJ InteractiveRestoring eye care services to reduce avoidable sight loss
A recent HSJ webinar explores issues surrounding the huge backlogs for ophthalmology treatments, how to tackle them and the pandemic’s role in our response
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NewsLondoners several times more likely to get life-saving treatment
The NHS and the Treasury need to make a renewed commitment to increasing the number of patients who benefit from thrombectomy, the Stroke Association has said, as it revealed the service was dependent on just 106 doctors in England.
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NewsAmbulance trust to hand back key NHS 111 contract
An ambulance trust which took on running NHS 111 services to provide consistent care quality is handing back a major contract for the service.
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News‘Don’t try to do our jobs’, trust CEOs warn ICSs
The NHS’s leading provider chief executives have cautioned newly established integrated care systems against over-reaching themselves.
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NewsICS chief agrees to pay back covid bonus
The chief executive of an integrated care board will return a bonus paid for her ‘response and management’ of the pandemic, following enquiries by HSJ about the payment.
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NewsTrust chief steps down after 17 years
One of England’s longest-serving ambulance chief executives is to step down next year.
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NewsEmergency performance slumps again as covid hits
Emergency care performance has again plunged to near-record lows, despite demand falling compared to the previous month.
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NewsExclusive: Minister misled MPs over ambulance crisis
A health minister incorrectly told the Commons on Wednesday that additional surge capacity for the struggling ambulance service was in place to help deal with the pressures created by the heatwave, despite the contract to procure the extra resources not having been finalised, HSJ has learned.
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News24 hour ambulance handover on ‘worst night ever’
All ambulance services are now understood to be on the highest level of alert due to ‘extreme pressures’ caused by the hot weather and covid absences among staff.
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NewsNHSE chief visits trust to ‘learn lessons’ from troubled IT project
The go-live of a new electronic patient record at two hospitals has led to operational problems and a visit from an NHS England board director to ‘learn lessons’ for future roll-outs.
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NewsNon-executive directors took over aspects of running struggling trust, review finds
A trust’s executive and non-executive roles were ‘confused’ and board members behaved in a way which was ‘not aligned” with trust values, an external review has found.
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NewsA&E promoted from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’
The Care Quality Commission has improved the rating of a long-struggling A&E from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’, as part of a system-wide inspection of urgent and emergency services
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News‘Shift to untrained staff’ leaves over half stroke units with too few nurses
Fewer than half of stroke units in England have the recommended number of trained nurses — a drop of 10 percentage points in two years, a report has warned.