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Hospital chief leaves national App role
A trust chief is unexpectedly leaving his national NHS England role leading development of the NHS App.
Targets revealed for £40m bonus fund
NHS England has published the criteria trusts must meet to secure a share of a £40m elective incentives pot.
Trusts appoint 23-year-old director
Two trusts have appointed the “youngest non-executive director in the NHS”, they have announced.
Maternity service suspended twice in two days
A major teaching trust was forced to close its maternity services to new births twice in two days, due to unsafe staffing levels, HSJ can reveal.
Trust hires ex-national director as CEO
A national director who left NHS England earlier this year is returning to work as a hospital trust CEO.
Trust ‘concerned’ about rising C-sections
A trust rated “inadequate” for maternity services has reported what it describes as a “concerning” increase in caesarean sections to its board.
Hospital warned over storing bodies in car park
A hospital has been reprimanded for storing bodies in a bank of fridges in its car park.
‘Integration is not enough’, NHSE demands ‘credible, affordable’ local plans
New five-year plans to be drawn up by all NHS organisations this autumn must be “credible, deliverable and affordable”, and boards must actively challenge them rather than them “simply endorsing the final version”, NHS England has said.
Trust appoints interim CEO
A trust whose chief executive is leaving to head up the region’s integrated care board has appointed an interim successor.
Exclusive: Full cost of federated data platform to exceed £1bn
The full cost of the national federated data platform programme is set to exceed £1bn over its first seven years, HSJ can reveal for the first time.
Regulator backs six digital tools for NHS use
Six digital health platforms for cardiac rehabilitation should be made available to NHS patients, a regulator has said in one of its first recommendations under a new approach to technologies.
Trusts told to appoint joint chair but keep separate CEOs
Two neighbouring trusts should appoint a joint chair but retain separate CEOs because “recent history” means sharing executives “could prove challenging”, a major review has concluded.
The 17 trusts missing NHSE’s new A&E handover target
More than a dozen trusts have not been meeting a new “maximum” NHS England standard through the spring and summer, HSJ can reveal.
Maternity services isolated from trust boards, watchdog warns
The safety watchdog has raised fresh concerns about NHS maternity services in a new review, warning that harm has been normalised within units that are working “in parallel” to trusts.
Revealed: The areas where a quarter of primary care estate needs replacement
Five integrated care systems claim that more than a quarter of their primary care premises are not fit for purpose, HSJ research has revealed.
New ICB cluster chiefs revealed
The preferred candidates for the chief executive posts at 13 of the 15 “clustered” integrated care boards have been identified by HSJ.
Former CEO returns home as trust chair
The chair of a trust whose specialist services have been the subject of intense scrutiny and national debate in recent years has stepped down, as it prepares to merge with a neighbour.
Campaigners against care failings at three trusts will help scope national investigation
Three large teaching trusts are highly likely to be included in a government-commissioned “investigation” of NHS maternity and neonatal care after those campaigning for improvements at the organisations were included in the group establishing its terms of reference.
Board director ‘talent pipeline’ needs ‘refreshing’, claims NHSE
NHS England is launching a recruitment campaign to attract trust and integrated care board non-executive directors in the face of an increasing number of retirements and resignations.
Revealed: The scale of the underspend in transformation funding
Integrated care boards underspent funds meant to boost investment in prevention, learning disabilities, and primary care by more than £100m, new data shows.
NHSE tough line makes little dent in impact of doctors’ strike
NHSE admits service not on course to hit 2025-26 waiting list targets
Named: The three trusts failing in every aspect of care
Exclusive: Ministers using ‘misleading indicator’ to champion waiting list reduction
‘40 new hospitals’ will not be delivered until 2046
10-Year Plan author seconded to Downing Street
£174k offered for top DHSC jobs
No resident doctors strikes in August, says Streeting
Private providers’ NHS revenues booming as waiting lists increase
NHSE launches programme to enable ‘patient power payments’
NHS manager facing bribery charge found dead
Acute trust CEO to lead GP-owned provider
‘Extra appointments’ celebrated by govt deliver ‘modest impact’ on waiting lists
First ICB ‘pauses’ redundancy plans over funding concerns
Troubled trust sees CEO and deputy announce departure within two weeks
Trust faces five-year backpay bill
Letby trust issued ‘warning notice’ after failure to improve
Exclusive: Epic set to earn £3m a year from NHS use of its app
Out of court settlement in £4.4bn procurement challenge
NHS must be seen as just one part of health ‘ecosystem’, says Milburn
Interim CEO appointment latest in regional chain of secondments
Royal college defends NHS treatment of Palestinian children
Exclusive: ‘Unjust’ NHS ethnic pay gap to be reviewed
We will no longer tolerate ‘negative behaviours’, pledges ICB
ICB predicts 400 staff will get £100k redundancy payouts
IVF postcode lottery intensifies as ICBs cut costs
Private provider’s NHS income up 16%
ICBs’ bill for post-discharge care rockets to £900m
Annual bill for NHS’s most costly drug set to be slashed
NHSE escalates intervention in four trusts in ‘exceptional’ move
Neighbourhood health ‘can’t be line managed’
ICBs can scrap chief nurse and medic, says NHSE
Revealed: Court battle over drug costing NHS £300m a year
Trust ‘missed opportunities’ in child’s death
Exclusive: Review uncovers misogyny and paternalistic culture at major trust
£4bn hospital group to appoint shared CEO
Exclusive: Regulator CEO resigns
Hospital denied large ‘refund’ because staff missed training
GPs urged to join forces to avoid ‘imposition’ of neighbourhood providers
New CEO for trust with high staff satisfaction