All HSJ Local top news articles – Page 21
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HSJ LocalFT seeks merger to avoid ‘patient safety risks’
A mental health trust is preparing to seek a merger or acquisition by another provider in a bid to address its financial challenges, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrusts hire ‘big four’ consultants to advise on joint working
Two mental health trusts have hired management consultants to look at how they can be more involved in joint working, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMental health and acute trust seek joint chief executive
A mental health trust and one of England’s worst performing acute trusts have announced they will come together under a “group model”.
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NewsHospital gets draft ‘inadequate’ rating
One of three high security mental health hospitals in England has received an “inadequate” rating in a draft report from the Care Quality Commission, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalNew chief exec for ‘outstanding’ hospital trust
A hospital trust rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission has appointed a new chief executive.
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HSJ LocalPlan to merge eight CCGs pushed back a year
A second London health system has opted to delay plans to merge its clinical commissioning groups into a single organisation.
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HSJ LocalNHS books hotels for staff as Kent braces for no-deal Brexit ‘Armageddon’
The NHS in Kent is block-booking hotel rooms for staff and planning with police to get workers and patients through “gridlocked roads” to hospitals as part of preparations for a no-deal Brexit “Armageddon”.
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NewsTrust appoints former council chief as chair
A trust in the West Midlands has appointed a former local authority chief as its new chair.
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HSJ LocalMajor trust proposes ‘referral only’ emergency care service for walk-in patients
Walk-in patients will be unable to access emergency care at a major hospital trust without a referral from a colocated urgent treatment centre, its chief executive has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalFormer national IT director returns to NHS role
A former national IT director is returning to an NHS role after two years in the private sector.
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NewsTripling in support workers substituting for nurses shows practice is ‘the new normal’
The number of registered nursing shifts being covered by less qualified support workers at an “outstanding” mental health trust has tripled since 2016.
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HSJ Local‘Outstanding’ rating for trust in troubled health economy
Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust has had its rating upgraded from “good” to “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalTrust seeks £300m for unfinished Carillion hospital
An acute trust is set to ask government for £300m to complete building works on a former Carillion hospital, a meeting was told, after engineers identified a series of problems with the structure.
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HSJ LocalA&E downgrade pushes demand onto struggling neighbour
The full extent of the increased pressure on a struggling city hospital after the downgrading of a neighbour’s emergency department has finally been revealed.
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NewsCQC closes ‘inadequate’ children’s unit
An NHS children’s mental health unit has been closed down by the Care Quality Commission after being rated “inadequate” earlier this week.
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HSJ LocalCMA clears acute trust mega merger after two months
The Competition and Markets Authority has cleared the planned merger of two acute trusts in Liverpool after the first stage of its approval process.
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Trust fined £80,000 after it ‘ignored clear evidence’ of threat to patients
A trust has been fined £80,000 following prosecution by the Care Quality Commission for failing to provide safe care.
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HSJ LocalSTP plans to axe all trauma services at DGH
Cambridgeshire leaders have set out plans to remove all trauma work from a struggling district general hospital as part of a major clinical reconfiguration.
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HSJ LocalFormer NHSE finance lead chosen as trust CEO
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive following Mark Davies announcing he would stand down earlier this year.
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NewsCCG axes IVF despite minister branding decision “not acceptable”
A heavily indebted CCG is to end funding for almost all IVF treatment, despite being told by a government minister that the move was “not acceptable”.