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HSJ LocalReviews into trust failures are an effort to ‘control the narrative’, say medics
Consultants who blew the whistle at a major teaching trust have raised “grave concerns” about the impartiality of three reviews into the safety and bullying allegations they made.
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HSJ LocalTrust CEOs could ‘end up in prison’ because of ‘unsafe’ hospitals, warns chief
An acute trust chief executive has criticised the lack of communication during last month’s nursing strike, warning that he and other accountable officers could face manslaughter charges if patients are put in danger by decisions made by senior colleagues elsewhere in the system.
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NewsPolice and CQC investigate serious incidents at trust
A series of concerns about serious incidents at a mental health trust are being investigated by the Care Quality Commission, with a referral also made to the police, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCQC names worst trusts for maternity care
The trusts with substantially worse experience of maternity care have been identified by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsLong cancer waits hit record high, despite drop in backlog
The number of people waiting for cancer diagnosis and treatment for more than three months has passed 12,000 for the first time.
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HSJ LocalTrust that banned corridor care ‘reluctantly’ brings it back
An acute trust has announced the ‘reluctant’ return of ‘corridor care’ – having previously eradicated the unsafe practice – due to extreme ambulance handover delays and other emergency pressures.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read patient safety stories of 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, HSJ takes a look at its most read patient safety stories of the year.
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HSJ LocalTrust fined following patient’s death linked to ‘outdated’ IT system
A Norfolk hospital trust has been fined £60,000 after pleading guilty to criminal charges of exposing a 28-year-old patient who died to significant risk of avoidable harm.
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NewsStubborn cancer backlog at record high
The number of people waiting more than two months to start cancer treatment remained over 30,000 – double the pre-covid level – for three months to the end of October, according to data published this morning.
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News‘Rubbish’ government Strep A comms blamed for flooding services
‘Rubbish’ communications on Group A Strep from government agencies made A&Es more ‘risky’ over the weekend, after services were flooded with the ‘worried well’, several senior provider sources have told HSJ.
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NewsProlific surgeon ‘harmed more than 100 patients’
A consultant orthopaedic surgeon who carried out double the average number of knee and hip operations over a three year-period is facing a tribunal over alleged misconduct and more than 100 legal cases lodged by former patients, HSJ has been told.
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News‘Patient safety progress stopped in its tracks by covid’ says Hunt report
A report commissioned by Jeremy Hunt before he became Chancellor has highlighted how the pandemic ’stopped progress on patient safety in its tracks’ and called for more accurate data to be published on a range of measures.
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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.