All articles by Alison Moore – Page 7
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No ambulance strikes this week after Unite's last minute decision
Next week’s ambulance strikes have been suspended as all three major unions have agreed to talks with the government, saying they have been told there is additional cash on the table.
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‘Toxic working environment’ exposed at troubled unit
Staff endured a ‘toxic and difficult working environment’ at a maternity unit where staff were ‘shouted and sworn at over differences of professional opinion’, an employment tribunal has found.
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Trust ‘missed opportunities’ to prevent sex offender working as locum
A trust has admitted it ‘missed opportunities’ to identify that a locum doctor – who was arrested on hospital premises for two sexual offences — had already been cautioned for indecent exposure.
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Strike restrictions could make disruption worse, admits government
Introducing minimum levels of service during ambulance strikes could have a ‘significant negative impact’ if staff instead opted for other forms of industrial action, such as overtime bans, the government’s own impact assessment of the proposals has warned.
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Striking staff drop cover for strokes and suspected heart attacks
Striking ambulance workers in two regions have said for the first time that they will only answer immediately life-threatening calls — abandoning previous agreements to cover some Category 2 incidents.
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Urgent action ordered at maternity scandal trust
The trust at the centre of a maternity scandal has been ordered to report on urgent improvements in services for women and babies, amid ‘significant concerns’ about the risk of harm.
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Region gets first top-tier acute trust
A Kent general acute trust has become the first in its region to be rated in the top tier of NHS England’s oversight framework, and only the seventh nationally.
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Staff at final ambulance trust vote to join strikes
Staff at the East of England ambulance trust – the only one to escape strike action so far – have voted to join the industrial action.
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More failings discovered at maternity scandal trust
A trust at the centre of a maternity scandal has been criticised for failures in those services by the Care Quality Commission, after an unannounced inspection last month, years after major problems began to come to light.
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Revealed: First trust CEO to receive £300,000 base salary
Many of the highest paid trust chiefs now have two executive roles, including the first permanent NHS CEO to be paid a base salary of more than £300,000 a year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Half of executive directors leaving scandal-hit trust
More than half the executive board members at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust are leaving in the space of a few months – leaving only two who have served at least three years.
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CEO to retire after seven years
A trust chief executive has announced she is to retire later this year after 40 years working in mental health services.
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Scandal-hit trust loses four directors
The trust at the centre of a maternity scandal is losing four executive directors in the space of a few months.
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HSJ Interactive
Roundtable: How do partnerships need to be different to help the NHS survive?
The NHS has always worked in partnership with external organisations, however, can these relationships support in delivering sustainable change at scale and pace? An HSJ roundtable, in association with Capita, looked at these key issues and how relationships may develop
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‘Marked reduction in pressure’ leads ambulance trust to move from top alert level after 598 days
An ambulance trust is no longer operating under the highest alert level for the first time in 20 months, after the number of calls it receives each day halved and a crucial response time reduced by 95 per cent.
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Exclusive: the trusts offering thousands of staff inferior pensions
Trusts are regularly denying staff employed by their wholly owned subsidiary companies access to the NHS pension and providing them with schemes which are significantly less generous.
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Trust names interim CEO after dropping merger plan
One of England’s smallest trusts has appointed an experienced interim chief executive for nine months while it recruits a permanent replacement.
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Only three trusts hit new A&E target
Average ambulance waits for stroke and heart attack patients topped two hours in three regions last month, amid another sharp drop in emergency care performance.
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Ambulances ‘lose’ 55,000 hours in one week during handover delays
Hours lost to ambulance handover delays, and the numbers of ambulances waiting more than an hour outside hospitals hit new highs in the week after Christmas.
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Ambulance trust asks ICSs for 300 staff to step in on strike day
More than 300 clinicians are being sought from primary care to help London Ambulance Service during next week’s strike, according to a letter seen by HSJ, amid fears it will have a greater impact than last month’s industrial action.