All articles by Lawrence Dunhill – Page 14
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: City sees covid patients almost double over weekend
The number of covid patients in Manchester’s hospitals has almost doubled over the weekend, HSJ understands.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Provider groups take the lead
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HSJ Local
Large ICS to hand billions to acute ‘provider collaborative’
The provider collaborative for Greater Manchester is likely to be assigned the bulk of the area’s acute care funding, according to senior leaders in the region.
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HSJ Local
Bolton 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 Local
Landmark 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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News
Cummings: ‘Hancock lied to everybody and wrongly accused Stevens over PPE’
Dominic Cummings has accused Matt Hancock of ‘lying to everybody on multiple occasions’, including about NHS chief Sir Simon Stevens blocking crucial orders of personal protective equipment.
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HSJ Local
Serious 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 Local
CEO 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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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Why two ICS bosses quit
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News
NHS England covid comms control was ‘truly dreadful’, claims health system leader
A leader of Greater Manchester’s health and care system has claimed NHS England’s approach to communications is “truly dreadful” – a claim which has been rejected by the national body’s medical director as “obviously not correct”.
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CEO Interview
CEO interview: Fiona Noden, Bolton FT
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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HSJ Local
ICS 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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News
NHS scrambles to avoid underspend of ‘billions’ against bumper covid budget
The NHS is scrambling to avoid a substantial and ‘embarrassing’ underspend against the budgets it negotiated with the government for additional covid costs, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Hospital 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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Expert Briefing
North by North West: How trusts compared on the NHS staff survey
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News
Systems offered upfront cash to exceed pre-covid elective activity by 20pc
Selected health systems are being offered additional upfront funding if they commit to delivering 120 per cent of their pre-covid elective activity levels by July, HSJ has learned.
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News
Exclusive: Stevens to step down in July
Sir Simon Stevens is to stand down as chief executive of NHS England at the end of July, HSJ can reveal.
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News
NHS England to set new ‘test’ for ICS structures
NHS England will be setting a ‘test’ for the various ways in which integrated care systems want to organise their governance structures, according to one of its directors.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Lessons to learn from four-year HR battle
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HSJ Local
NHSE 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.