All Leadership articles – Page 37
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NewsFormer trust CEO and medical director cleared over surgery scandal
A major trust’s former chief executive and medical director have been cleared, after being accused of failing to protect breast patients from a rogue surgeon.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: The growth in patient leadership
Patient (or lived experience) leadership involves those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability becoming equal partners in NHS decision-making. In this new monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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NewsHunt: Tax will need to rise to fund health and care
Jeremy Hunt believes spending on the NHS will have to rise and that the increase should be funded through higher taxation.
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NewsNHS Digital leader to chair trust
NHS Digital’s chair has been appointed to the same role at a specialist trust.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: ‘How would I feel if this happened to a member of my family?’
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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HSJ Local‘Obfuscations and failures’ in trust’s handling of death, damning review finds
There were ’obfuscations, difficulties and failures’ in a scandal-hit trust’s handling of a baby’s death, a damning review has found, although it cleared the organisation’s former chair of ’serious mismanagement’.
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NewsTrust orders 'civility training' for senior leaders
An ambulance service rated ’inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission has set out a wide-ranging improvement plan, including ’civility training’ for senior leaders and ensuring board members hear a mix of ’positive and negative’ stories from patients and staff.
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NewsDHSC’s highest paid official steps down
One of the highest earners in the Department of Health and Social Care has announced his departure after five years.
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HSJ PartnersWe all have a duty to speak up for safety, civility and inclusion
Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark explains why we all have a role to play in making speaking up business as usual for everyone
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NewsExclusive: Test & Trace boss joins consultancy which earned over £300m from programme
A senior civil servant who oversaw the £37bn Test and Trace budget has moved to a consultancy firm that received millions of pounds from the government for its work on the programme.
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CommentHow to ‘comms it’
When the money runs out and the workforce has quit, the ambitious NHS leader must learn to “comms it”. Martin Plackard has helpfully compiled a list of the vital terms that great NHS communicators should use in this time of crisis. As shared with Julian Patterson
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HSJ LocalSix ICS chiefs to lead regional decision-making group
Six integrated care boards across the West Midlands are proposing to establish a joint committee of chief executives to make shared decisions on key issues impacting the region, it has emerged.
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NewsTrust group appoints interim CEO as chief takes leave
A hospital group has named its chief digital information officer as interim chief executive, after its substantive CEO went on leave at short notice for personal reasons.
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News‘Sack poor NHS managers’, says new government adviser
An MP who has just become a ministerial assistant in the Department of Health and Social Care has called for ‘underperforming’ NHS managers to be ‘sacked’, claiming some executives in the health service earn up to £500,000 per year.
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CommentThe grimmest of fairy tales
Traditional stories and rhymes have entertained and scared generations of children. Now we can all enjoy a good nightmare, writes Julian Patterson
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NewsTrust CEO drafted in to replace departing ICS leader
The chief executive of a successful acute trust is to take over as the interim leader of an integrated care system.
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NewsCentre has ‘lost the narrative’ over NHSE merger
The NHS should reduce the number of different electronic patient records used by trusts and instead rely on a smaller set of suppliers with nationally agreed prices, according to the CEO of NHS Digital.
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NewsCEO quits under-pressure ICS
A former Number 10 adviser who was made CEO of an integrated care board has become the first to leave since the organisations were created in July this year.
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NewsExclusive: Coffey warned of ‘significant risk’ posed by CQC restructuring
Staff at the Care Quality Commission have been left ‘in fear of speaking out’ against structural changes to the organisation which they believe ‘pose a significant risk’ to the CQC’s ability to regulate health services, trade unions have told the health and social care secretary.