All articles by Caitlin Tilley – Page 4
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NewsCEO accuses trusts of defying NHSE target
Acute trusts in the West Midlands have been criticised by an ambulance service CEO for not implementing an NHS England instruction to keep handover times under 45 minutes.
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NewsPlanning, teamwork and understaffing criticised at troubled unit
A regional haematology unit with a history of quality problems has admitted new failures in planning transplants and teamworking, amid concerns about short staffing.
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NewsTen-year plan will ‘end one size fits all primary care’
“One size fits all” primary care is outdated and will be replaced with services targeted at the needs of different patient groups, rather than “what is convenient to organisations or individual sectors”, the national GP director has said.
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News‘No staffing growth’ policy implicated in patient’s death
Repeated refusals by NHS England to fund extra staff was a key factor in a patient’s death, a coroner has said.
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NewsTrust predicts ‘standstill’ in very long waits
A trust has called in a private provider to help address very long diagnostic waits, but admits they will remain at a “standstill” without “further investment”.
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NewsTroubled trust to appoint shared CEO with community provider
A struggling acute trust has announced plans to share a chief executive with its neighbouring community provider as it explores a new group model.
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NewsCouncils and trusts to help failing GP practices under ‘neighbourhood’ plan
Nominated “integrator” organisations – which could be NHS provider trusts or councils – will help GP practices “at risk of failure”, under new plans for London’s neighbourhood health service.
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NewsCQC hires NHSE director as chief inspector
NHS England’s inequalities director has been appointed as the Care Quality Commission’s new chief inspector of primary and community services.
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NewsSmallest ICB appoints chair despite consolidation talks
The integrated care board with the smallest population has appointed a new chair, despite the expected consolidation of ICBs.
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NewsEx-health secretary attacks ‘drastic’ ICB shake-up
Government and NHS England should “step back” from their NHS “reorganisation” which “came out of nowhere” and risks “taking people’s focus internally”, according to former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham.
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NewsGovernment accused of misleading claim on health hubs
Most integrated care systems lack a women’s health hub offering full services — contrary to government claims — according to research seen by HSJ.
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NewsDirector who helped force out CEO resigns from trust
A trust chief people officer, who was heavily criticised in an employment tribunal ruling, has resigned from her role.
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NewsHospital sends GPs 15,000 letters in a single day
A “technical failure” caused a hospital trust to send 15-20,000 discharge letters to local GP practices on the day before the Easter bank holiday weekend, some of which dated back four months.
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NewsICB seeks first GP and dentist integration
An integrated care board in the East of England is working to integrate general practice and dental care records, and exploring shared sites for the two primary care services.
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NewsHigh-profile trust to merge with neighbour
A specialist mental health trust whose services have been under intense scrutiny in recent years is merging with a neighbouring provider.
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NewsGroup trust names two acting CEOs
Two interim chief executives have been appointed by a group of four trusts, as its substantive CEO takes up a “transition” role at NHS England.
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NewsICBs will have to merge, says ex-NHSE chief
Some integrated care boards will need to merge in order to cut their running costs in half, according to Sir David Nicholson — leaving trust groups such as the one he now chairs well placed to organise local services.
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NewsICBs in dispute with provider over ‘ticking timebomb’ drug costs
Multiple NHS commissioners are embroiled in a legal row with a private company they say is “intensively” marketing its online weight-loss drugs service, which could cost them hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
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NewsExclusive: Streeting brings in adviser for neighbourhood health
Wes Streeting has hired a former GP who led a review into integrated care for Labour while the party was in opposition to advise on neighbourhood health and primary care.
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NewsGP contract strips out key cancer and mental health targets
Targets designed to improve mental health and cancer outcomes in primary care have been removed from the new GP contract agreed between the profession and government.