Annabelle Collins
Annabelle has been writing about healthcare for 10 years and is a senior correspondent covering workforce and safety as well as issues concerning the NHS in the Midlands. She also runs HSJ's Health Check podcast.
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- Tel:
- 020 7608 9034
- Email:
- annabelle.collins@hsj.co.uk
- Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Trouble in the Black Country
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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‘Outstanding’ trust CEO leaving after 13 years
The chief executive of an “outstanding” rated community trust is to step down after 13 years in the role.
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Staff shortages putting A&E crisis support target at risk
A national survey, seen by HSJ, has raised concerns about the “sustainability, quality and consistency” of mental health crisis support services in emergency departments.
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Trust director resigns over ‘dishonesty’
The strategy director of an acute trust has resigned after being suspended by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for dishonesty over a “repeated period of time”.
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Mental health workforce now bigger but ‘less experienced’
The mental health workforce has become less experienced, while roles have expanded unevenly across the sector, research has revealed.
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Trust concludes former chief ‘not fit and proper’ after sexual harassment investigation
An NHS trust has concluded that its former chief executive is not a “fit and proper person” to be on an NHS board, after investigating allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour, HSJ has learned.
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Trust CEOs accuse police of ‘high stakes game of chicken’
Ambulance chiefs have warned that patients are coming to harm, paramedics are being assaulted and control room staff reporting a “high stakes game of chicken” with police during the implementation of a controversial new national care model.
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NHSE to overhaul mental health leadership
NHS England is recruiting its first ever medical director for mental health and neurodiversity, while its national clinical director for mental health has left.
- Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: 12-hour A&E waits rise again
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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NHSE ‘seeking resolution’ over suspended medical director
NHS England is working with a mental health trust in the Midlands to “seek a resolution” after the sudden suspension of its medical director, which prompted two ‘no confidence’ votes in the board.
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ICB chair steps down due to health reasons
An integrated care board chair has announced he will step down this spring after an extended period of ill health.
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‘Insufficient curiosity’ of trust’s leaders enabled abuse
A major review into a mental health unit abuse scandal has found a catalogue of failings, including repeated missed opportunities to act on concerns, and a board “disconnected” from the realities faced by patients and staff.
- HSJ Local
Consultants sent into troubled system after £140m deficit warning
NHS England has sent a consultancy firm into a troubled health system, after it said its financial plan would be missed by up to £140m.
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Minister orders ‘special review’ of embattled trust
The government has ordered a “special review” into a trust facing multiple major concerns, including its treatment of Valdo Calocane before he killed three people in Nottingham last summer.
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Managers face axe at under-pressure trust
A trust grappling with an “inadequate” rating at its high-profile high secure hospital has begun a major management restructure expected to include redundancies, HSJ has learned.
- HSJ Local
Trust cuts board posts to make savings
An acute trust has made cuts to its board to save money and help reduce its deficit.
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‘Inadequate’ hospital restricted from admitting new patients
A high secure hospital has been rated “inadequate” again by the Care Quality Commission and prevented from admitting new patients without the regulator’s “prior written agreement”.
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Long-standing Confed network chief to chair trust
NHS Confederation’s mental health network’s long-standing chief executive is leaving to chair a mental health trust.
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Trust appoints CEO after two years as interim
An ‘outstanding’ mental health trust has made its long-term interim chief executive substantive, it has announced.
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Hospital violence ‘going through the roof’, says CEO
A London acute trust is planning to provide staff working in frailty units with body cameras and those in antenatal clinics with additional security, as violence and aggression against them goes ‘through the roof’.