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NewsTransplant patients die after drinking infected water from hospital supply
Two lung-transplant patients died after drinking infected water at a new specialist hospital, a coroner has concluded.
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NewsRevealed: The NHS hospitals most at risk of flooding
Two acute hospitals are among the NHS facilities most at risk of flooding, new figures obtained by HSJ reveal.
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NewsTrust bosses fear fallout of co-ordinated strikes
Trust leaders have raised concerns about other major unions striking on the same dates as the Royal College of Nursing in co-ordinated action, which would make avoiding disruption and harm ‘more hairy’.
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NewsLongest diagnostic waits at highest level since covid lockdown
The share of referrals waiting more than three months for a diagnostic test – one of the key problems behind long waits for cancer treatment – is worse than at any point since February 2021, during the second national covid lockdown.
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HSJ LocalHospital ‘restricting patients unlawfully’, CQC warns
An acute trust has been served a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors found it was failing to carry out mental health assessments properly, leading to patients “being restricted… unlawfully”.
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HSJ LocalTrust calls out cleaning firm over high infection rates
An acute trust has publicly accused its cleaning contractor of failing to meet nationally set cleaning standards, and said this has contributed to a ‘large spike’ in hospital-acquired infections.
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NewsCEOs ‘risk becoming prisoners’ in trusts with poor culture
Trust chief executives risk becoming “prisoners” of organisations with poor cultures if they do not “step back and see the bigger picture”, a former chief inspector of hospitals has said.
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NewsScandal trust leaders ‘engaged in ritual of denial’
Senior trust leaders “engaged in a repeated ritual of defence and denial” as they presided over one of the NHS’s largest ever care scandals, its chair admitted today.
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NewsNew national incident reporting system delayed amid fears of patient safety ‘disaster’
The deadline for the NHS to move to a new system for safety incident reporting has been delayed after widespread concerns the rollout could be a ‘disaster’.
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NewsCEOs and chairs blamed for care failings which led to death of over 40 babies
A series of chairs and chief executives at an acute trust were ‘wrong’ to believe the organisation was providing acceptable care over an 11-year period and should be held accountable for one of NHS’s largest maternity care scandals, an inquiry concluded today.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: main hospital corridor turned into ‘makeshift ward’
The main corridor of an acute hospital has been closed to patients and staff and turned into a ‘makeshift ward’, in what sources describe as an ‘absolutely unprecedented’ situation.
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NewsFormer trust CEO and medical director cleared over surgery scandal
A major trust’s former chief executive and medical director have been cleared, after being accused of failing to protect breast patients from a rogue surgeon.
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HSJ Local‘Obfuscations and failures’ in trust’s handling of death, damning review finds
There were ’obfuscations, difficulties and failures’ in a scandal-hit trust’s handling of a baby’s death, a damning review has found, although it cleared the organisation’s former chair of ’serious mismanagement’.
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NewsUpdated: IT failure disrupts patient care ‘at number of trusts’
An IT failure left clinicians at ‘a number of trusts’ which use the Cerner Millennium system unable to access patient records on Tuesday but was fixed overnight.
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HSJ LocalHospital merger confusion blamed for cancer deaths
A ‘leading’ cancer service has reported a series of safety incidents which contributed to patients being severely harmed or dying, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHospital’s ‘consistently high’ mortality rate under investigation
NHS England and local system leaders are looking into “consistently high” mortality rates over the last two years at an acute hospital after previous reviews failed to find an explanation, an integrated care board meeting was told this week.
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NewsStaff shortages force most trusts to suspend NHSE maternity care model
More than two-thirds of trusts have been forced to suspend or pause a high-profile service improvement aimed at reducing neonatal and maternal deaths, because of widespread staffing shortages.
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NewsFormer chief inspector set to chair safety watchdog
The former chief inspector of hospitals has been named the government’s preferred candidate to chair the Health Services Safety Investigations Body.
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NewsGovernment examines surge in ‘potentially preventable’ deaths
Department of Health and Social Care officials are concerned that many more people are dying than expected in recent months – particularly older working-age people – with NHS care delays and interruptions a likely cause.
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NewsNew approach to safety incidents will see fewer investigations
Major reforms have been set out on how NHS organisations should respond to patient safety incidents, with the aim of ensuring better engagement with patients and families.