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NewsLate delivery of equipment linked to patient’s death
The late supply of defective equipment used by care staff to reduce harm from a pressure ulcer contributed to the death of a vulnerable patient, a coroner has concluded.
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NewsNHSE’s leadership standards ‘wordy and woolly’
The new framework which is meant to set national standards for NHS leaders has been criticised as “too wordy” and “woolly”.
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News‘Devastating’ delays to new hospitals revealed
Eighteen of the 40 ‘new hospital’ schemes which were originally due to open in 2030 will now not even start construction until then – with some potentially facing a wait of until 2039 to even get spades in the ground.
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NewsMapped: Revised hospital build dates
Mapped: Targeted construction dates after Wes Streeting’s review of the “new hospitals programme”.
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HSJ Local‘Fragile’ IT blamed for critical incidents and patient harm
Outdated clinical IT systems at a large Midlands hospital trust are harming patients and causing delayed diagnoses and cancelled appointments, its CEO has admitted.
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NewsNHSE commends ICBs for ‘strong leadership’
The quality of leadership at 13 integrated care boards has been praised by NHS England in its latest formal assessment of their performance.
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NewsRevealed: Roof leaks and derelict buildings at hospitals with most empty space
More than 10,000 square metres of hospital space is being left vacant across some of England’s largest hospitals because of disrepair and decay.
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NewsFailing trust executives are not given new jobs to avoid disputes, claims Powis
NHS England does not seek to move failing executives into new jobs to avoid employment disputes, its medical director has told a public inquiry.
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NewsSurgeon and lawyer chosen to chair divorcing trusts
New chairs have been announced for two large trusts which are dissolving their group structure.
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NewsExclusive: Death risk doubles for long A&E waits
Patients who spent more than 12 hours in A&E were twice as likely to die within 30 days as those treated, transferred or discharged within two hours, a landmark study shared with HSJ reveals.
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NewsCleaning firm sues trust over £8m contract
A facilities management company is suing an ambulance trust over the procurement of a £8m contract for cleaning services.
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NewsHospital CEO appointed ICB boss
A hospital chief executive has been appointed to lead an integrated care board in a neighbouring system.
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NewsCQC report on ‘fire risk’ A&E delayed by 13 months
A trust has been waiting more than a year for a Care Quality Commission report into its emergency department where inspectors found fire safety risks.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers spent £500k dismantling then rebuilding their offices
Two successive health and social care secretaries spent nearly £500,000 dismantling and then rebuilding ministerial offices in their department, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: 14 ICBs cutting spend on the third sector
Nearly half of all integrated care boards are due to cut their spending on voluntary, community and social enterprise services this financial year, HSJ analysis suggests.
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News500 CQC reports ‘stuck in IT system’
Around 500 draft inspection reports are “stuck” in the Care Quality Commission’s IT system and cannot currently be retrieved, its leaders admitted today.
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News£33m cost of cyber attack revealed
A cyber attack on a pathology firm part-owned by the NHS — which left hospital systems crippled for months — cost the provider £32.7m, accounts reveal.
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NewsElective recovery fund capped for rest of year
The amount of extra waiting list funding trusts can earn is to be capped in the remaining months of the financial year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Elective recovery scheme ‘wide open to gaming’
Plans to pay trusts to validate and sometimes remove patients from their waiting lists could be “wide open to gaming” and create a public perception problem, senior NHS figures have told HSJ.
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NewsReforms to fix Band 8 pay gap at risk, ministers warned
Unions are warning the government it risks derailing “comprehensive” reforms to fix the Agenda for Change pay band structure, including the lack of an incentive to promotion to Band 8a.