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NewsChief nurse leaving troubled trust for ICB
A chief nurse is leaving a teaching hospital under investigation over maternity failings for an integrated care board role, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Advanced FTs’ will be able to use revenue to fund capital projects
The new advanced foundation trusts will be allowed to save up and then reinvest their revenue surpluses into capital projects, according to guidance out for consultation.
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NewsMaternity unit suspended 12 times in three months
A maternity service was forced to close one of its units on 12 separate occasions in the space of just three months due to a shortage of midwives.
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NewsCQC turnaround ‘on track’, despite ‘disruptive’ CEO departure
The turnaround of the Care Quality Commission is “on track” despite the sudden and unexpected loss of its chief executive, according to its new chief inspector of hospitals.
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HSJ Local‘Serious leadership failures’ found at major trust
A major trust has been accused of presiding over “serious and systemic failures in leadership” and rated inadequate in the well led domain by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsChair leaves trust amid cancer probe
A trust under investigation due to failings in its breast cancer service said it was seeking to “strengthen leadership and governance” after its chair departed after less than three years.
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NewsTrust admits failings after absconded girl’s death
A hospital trust faces a substantial fine after admitting staff failed to follow a teenage girl with mental health problems who absconded from a hospital ward and then killed herself.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: How the Leeds Way went wrong
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, one of the biggest acute providers in Europe, was seen as an example of how a trust can turn things around, despite its size and complexity.
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NewsCQC chief quits with ‘immediate effect’
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has quit with “immediate effect”, the regulator has announced today.
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NewsCQC prosecutes hospital over ‘avoidable harm’
The Care Quality Commission is prosecuting a large hospital trust for allegedly exposing a patient to a “significant risk of avoidable harm” by failing to provide safe care and treatment.
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NewsNHSE intervenes over trust’s leadership failures
NHS England has taken legal enforcement action against one of England’s biggest teaching trusts over concerns about its leadership and governance.
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NewsOverall CQC ratings to be reintroduced
The Care Quality Commission is proposing to reintroduce overall care quality ratings for trusts, and put more weight on “expert professional judgement”, in an overhaul of its assessments.
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HSJ LocalHospital rated ‘inadequate’ over leadership and infection failures
A hospital run by the largest trust in the East of England has been downgraded to “inadequate” by the care regulator, which found ”disconnected” leaders and ”bowls of bodily fluids left for multiple hours”.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Some progress but blame culture still persists
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsTop 10 trust served warning notice as quality ‘declines significantly’
A trust ranked in the top 10 of the government’s new provider league table for the mental health and community sector has been served with a warning notice after a Care Quality Commission inspection found multiple breaches of regulations.
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NewsChildren’s unit to close over staffing and CQC concerns
A children’s mental health unit struggling with short staffing has been forced to close for several months, in the wake of a Care Quality Commission inspection.
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CommentLeague tables won’t save lives – transparency will
Mid Staffs showed the dangers of chasing targets. New NHS league tables risk repeating these mistakes, endangering patient safety
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News‘Exceptionally strong personalities’ undermining trust’s board
The board of one of the country’s biggest teaching trusts has not been working as “cohesively as it should”, the care regulator has found, with concerns among senior leaders that some “exceptionally strong personalities” may have prevented robust scrutiny of decisions.
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News‘Moral distress’ at trust’s ‘persistently underfunded’ neonates service
“Persistent underfunding” and staff shortages at a teaching trust’s neonatal service is likely to have harmed long-term development of newborn babies, an NHS England review has found.
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HSJ LocalLeaders ‘quick to blame’ at ‘inadequate’ hospital department
Staff have accused leaders of being “quick to find someone to blame” in an inspection that has rated a hospital department “inadequate”.