All articles by James Illman – Page 11
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Soaring trolley waits spark warnings A&E pressures getting ‘worse and worse’
The number of 12-hour waits in accident and emergency departments rose by 27 per cent in one month to reach record levels in January amid warnings overcrowding is harming an increasing number of patients.
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Recovery plan expects two more years of waiting list growth
The government’s NHS recovery plan says elective waiting lists are likely to continue growing until March 2024.
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HSJ Local
New ICS structure ‘absolutely daft’, says acute chair
Proposals for how Norfolk and Waveney integrated care system will work ‘feel so top heavy’ that residents could ‘struggle to understand the point’, a local hospital chair has warned.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The secret to boosting team morale
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter will track prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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HSJ Local
Chair leaves trust ahead of ‘positive’ CQC report
The chair of an ‘inadequate’ rated hospital trust – said to have made improvements now being recognised by regulators – is moving to another provider in the region.
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NHS legal chief resigns with nine days’ notice
NHS Resolution chair Martin Thomas has quietly resigned, with no official press announcement, following allegations of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ in a previous role.
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HSJ Local
Staff will quit if not given ‘time to recover’, says NHSE director
An NHS England director and trust chief says he ‘fears [the NHS] will see increasing numbers of resignations’ unless more is done to ensure burnt-out staff are given sufficient leave to recover mentally and physically.
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HSJ Local
CCG opens ‘care hotel’ after critical incident
A hotel in the centre of Norwich is temporarily being converted into a care facility to help ease local bed pressures, as Norfolk becomes the latest area to pilot the model.
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NHSE warns trusts not to use costly clinical locums
NHS England has ‘strongly discouraged’ trusts from using insourcing solutions which involve paying locum clinical staff ‘escalated rates’.
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NHS England director to step down
One of NHS England’s longest-serving senior figures is to leave their role with the national body.
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Don’t ‘rush out’ incomplete elective plan, ministers warned
Ministers have been urged not to ‘rush out’ their elective recovery plan this week by NHS Providers because the full impact of omicron on the service has not been established.
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Two-year breaches rise by 15pc to record high
The number of two-year elective breaches jumped 15 per cent to 18,585 patients between October and November, although the NHS’s overall waiting list size stabilised at just under six million patients.
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HSJ Local
Trust launches investigation after staff member’s death
East of England Ambulance Service Trust has launched an ‘independent investigation into the circumstances’ surrounding the death of a staff member, the trust’s chief executive told a board meeting today.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: NHSE wielding axe to quality targets risks normalising poor care
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter will track prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Javid directs NHSE to agree new private sector deal
The NHS has been directed by the health and social care secretary to agree a three-month nationwide ‘covid surge deal’ with independent sector providers.
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‘Patients at risk’ from ‘hastily rolled out virtual wards’
NHS England’s plans to rapidly expand virtual wards are being ‘hastily rolled out’ and could put patients at risk while taking up significant staffing capacity, leading clinicians have warned.
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New NHS contract sets ‘realistic’ watered-down targets
NHS England’s proposed new standard contract confirms a watering down of several waiting-time targets, following the big deterioration in performance accelerated by covid.
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HSJ Local
‘Witch hunt’ trust chair stands down
The chair of the trust slammed in a scathing review for its ‘intimidating… flawed and not fit for purpose’ hunt for a whistleblower has stood down.
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HSJ Local
‘Witch hunt’ trust chief who quit in August to remain on full pay to September 2022
The former hospital chief executive who stood down shortly before a review slammed his organisation’s ‘flawed, intimidating’ hunt for a whistleblower will continue to be employed by the trust on an annual remuneration package worth £270,000 until September 2022, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: NHS’s struggles to increase private sector activity revealed
The NHS sent less elective work to private sector providers in almost all specialties during the first six months of 2021-22 than it did in the comparable period before the pandemic, an HSJ analysis can reveal.