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NewsChemo delays blamed on bank pay cuts
Patients have been waiting up to a month for chemotherapy appointments because of staffing shortages, partly caused by reductions in bank rates.
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NewsSupplier payments delayed as trust cashflows go ‘critical’
Some of the NHS’s most financially challenged trusts are paying less than half of their suppliers on time as cash flow becomes “critical”, an HSJ investigation has discovered.
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NewsNew chair for ICB facing £136m deficit
An experienced integrated care board leader has been drafted in to chair a board overseeing one of the country’s most troubled systems.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Recognising risk, listening to patients and acting early
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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LeaderHow do you solve a problem like East Kent?
In 2021, HSJ wrote 48 news stories mentioning East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust.
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NewsCEO ‘shocked’ by latest maternity findings
An acting chief executive has said it was “quite shocking” to find his trust had “let so many people down” on maternity care, contrary to assurances given to the board.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Labour joins in the manager bashing
This week we bring you the health highlights from the Labour Party Conference, including an ex-minister who said he would sack half of the NHS managers he has met “in a heartbeat” for not being good enough.
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NewsEight stillbirths may have been avoided at hospitals with longstanding maternity concerns
An independent review has found better care might have prevented eight stillbirths at a trust which was at the centre of a maternity scandal four years ago.
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NewsDoctor to chair trust after boardroom row
A clinical oncologist has been appointed to chair a trust whose previous chair quit after a draft investigation found she had “exceeded her authority” in suspending its chief executive.
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NewsTrust fails in bid to overturn CQC warning notice
One of the NHS’s most troubled trusts made an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the Care Quality Commission issuing it with a warning notice.
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News‘Nepotistic culture’ left poor behaviour unchecked, says review
Staff at a major acute trust described a “nepotistic culture” in which poor behaviour went unpunished, a review into how it handled staff concerns has found.
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NewsRevealed: Biggest climbers and fallers on diagnostic waits
Eleven trusts recorded swings of more than 20 percentage points on the headline waiting target for diagnostic tests over the past year.
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NewsNHS accused of using suppliers as ‘free overdraft’
Overdue payments by trusts running to tens of millions of pounds have sparked a fresh row with suppliers, who have warned the situation is “not sustainable”.
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NewsSix trusts exit NHSE recovery regime
Six trusts have been released from an NHS England’s regime for the most challenged providers, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSubstandard dialysis did not kill patients, says trust
A decision to provide substandard dialysis treatment due to “exceptional” capacity pressure was not responsible for high mortality discovered among the service’s patients, a trust has claimed.
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NewsTrust CEO quits despite being cleared of misconduct
A trust chief executive who was cleared of misconduct after being wrongly suspended by her chair has resigned.
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NewsTrust leadership gets red rating after boardroom row
A trust whose chair quit after a boardroom row has become the first to have its “capability” rating downgraded by NHS England.
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NewsNHSE intervenes at governance crisis trust
NHS England has formally intervened over governance failures at a trust whose chair resigned after “exceeding her authority” by suspending its chief executive.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What happens when the chair/CEO relationship breaks down
On this week’s podcast, we talk about relationships between CEOs and chairs - and why the CEO of East Kent Hospitals has not been at work since mid-November.
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NewsTrust chair quits following dispute with CEO and directors
A trust chair who “exceeded her authority” in suspending the organisation’s chief executive has stood down.