All HSJ Local articles – Page 30
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HSJ LocalBolton sees slight decline in covid patients
The number of covid inpatients at Royal Bolton Hospital has declined slightly over the weekend.
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HSJ LocalLandmark reconfiguration that promised to save 300 lives a year ‘quietly dropped’
One of the highest profile NHS reconfigurations of the last decade — that pledged to save 300 lives per year — has been “quietly dropped”, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalSerious safety concerns over third major specialty at struggling trust
Serious patient safety concerns have been raised about a third major specialty at a struggling acute trust, with inspectors also flagging wider leadership issues.
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HSJ LocalCEO to take over third teaching trust
The chief executive of two acute providers is set to take over the leadership of a third teaching trust in Lancashire.
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HSJ LocalTrust ordered to pay £20,000 in case where there were ‘significant issues’ with CEO’s evidence
A major acute trust has been ordered to pay £20,000 in costs amid a long-running employment dispute with a whistleblower.
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HSJ LocalTrust acts after 'inappropriate' payments to board members
An acute trust is taking “remedial action” after an external investigation found thousands of pounds had been “incorrectly” paid to board members, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalICS leaders quit, claiming job ‘not what we signed up for’
The relatively newly appointed leaders of a large integrated care system have announced they are stepping down, saying the task has become “significantly different from the one we were appointed to”.
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HSJ LocalSupplier to ‘every NHS trust’ placed in special measures
Patients have come to avoidable harm after a large private provider failed to deliver thousands of medicine prescriptions, according to a report from the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalHospital chief: ‘If I was a man from Manchester, I’d have been a CEO 10 years ago’
A new provider chief executive says her path to the top job would have been 10 years quicker if she was male and from somewhere more fashionable than Bolton.
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HSJ LocalNew CEO appointed at northern acute trust
Len Richards will take the helm at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust in October after four years as the chief executive of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
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HSJ LocalTroubled trust names interim after appointed chief withdraws application
Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has appointed an interim chief executive after its previous candidate was forced to withdraw his application in March after an inquiry about his qualifications.
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HSJ LocalPrivate provider fined after failing to disclose treatment errors
A private healthcare provider has been ordered to pay £20,000 after failing to disclose errors in the treatment of patients under the care of a surgeon.
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HSJ Local‘Covid triangle’ A&E service rated ‘inadequate’ after infection control concerns
Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust’s urgent and emergency care services have been downgraded from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘inadequate’.
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HSJ LocalConsultant accused of ‘financial abuse of terminally ill patient’
A consultant has failed to get an injunction placed on a hospital trust investigating several allegations into his work, including that he improperly referred hospital patients to his private clinics.
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HSJ LocalTrust decides £4bn price tag ‘too expensive’ for new hospital
A teaching trust is planning a £1.2bn rebuild as part of the government’s new hospitals programme, having rejected a single new site option as “too expensive” at an estimated £4bn.
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HSJ LocalHospital trust’s new CEO will be ninth of minority ethnic background
A north London trust has appointed a new chief executive who will be one of two provider chiefs known to be of minority ethnic background in the capital, and nine in England.
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HSJ LocalHeavily criticised trust recognised for improvements on infection control
A trust which was heavily criticised for poor infection prevention and control last summer has been praised for making improvements.
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HSJ LocalStruggling trusts halt work on merger
Two trusts mired in controversy over quality and governance issues have paused their planned merger, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalDirectors of urgent care provider warned they could face prosecution over financial ‘criminal offences’
A London urgent care provider faces criminal prosecution over financial and governance concerns, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalNHSE sends improvement director into struggling acute trust
Regulators have sent an improvement director into a North West acute trust amid multiple allegations of poor care and ‘cover up’ across different specialties.