East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust has been given a clean bill of health after a repeat hygiene inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
The trust had been given two weeks to improve after a critical inspection last year - but inspectors on an unannounced visit found there had been a “real improvement” in its efforts to minimise risks from healthcare acquired infections.
The chief executive of the troubled East Midlands Ambulance Service is to stand down, HSJ has learned.
An ambulance trust chief executive who retired suddenly around the time the organisation was fined £5m for poor performance received a lump sum worth twice his annual salary, HSJ can reveal.
A review of deaths at a trust with elevated mortality rates has suggested coding issues, and not care quality, as the likely cause, HSJ has been told.
Claire Read outlines some approaches that support trusts in tackling the four hour accident and emergency target
In May 2018 the care of 98.4 per cent of patients arriving at the A E department of Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Foundation Trust was completed within four hours. Claire Read explores the factors driving this success
Break down the accident and emergency challenge into manageable chunks and then deal with them one at a time, says Jonathan Patrick
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