Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust – Page 2
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NewsGovernment hits back in clinical waste row
The government has hit back at claims that there is not enough incineration capacity to burn waste from NHS hospitals - accusing the company at the centre of a stockpiling scandal of refusing to pay disposal costs.
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NewsTrusts move clinical waste contracts to new provider after stockpiling scandal
Fifteen NHS trusts have transferred their clinical waste management contracts to another provider, after it emerged a key supplier to the NHS was stockpiling human body parts and other dangerous waste.
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NewsExclusive: Trust chiefs form joint committee across STP
Mental health leaders are creating a joint committee to standardise pathways and improve service quality across their sustainability and transformation partnership, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsSTP moves towards shared control total
Leaders across a sustainability and transformation partnership are drafting a new agreement that could lead to the organisations in the STP sharing a control total.
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News70 trusts working with NHSI to boost workforce retention
Seventy NHS trusts have now been recruited by NHS Improvement to its programme to improve workforce retention rates in the health service.
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HSJ LocalTrust, private providers and GPs form alliance
A community trust in Yorkshire is setting up an alliance with local GPs and two private primary care providers to deliver accident and emergency streaming services.
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HSJ LocalNHS organisations could share workforce to tackle vacancies
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
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NewsExclusive: 11 providers given £300m commissioning budget
NHS England confirms second wave of sites to take on devolved tertiary mental health commissioning powers The 11 new sites will be given devolved commissioning responsibility for low and medium secure adult or tier four child and adolescent mental health services The 17 sites will all be live by ...
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NewsRevealed: 23 trusts chosen for new Carter review
Twenty-three trusts selected for first phase of Lord Carter’s new review into productivity at mental health and community service organisations NHS Improvement letter to mental health and community service trusts reveals providers chosen for initial six month engagement phase Review will follow a similar structure to Lord Carter’s previous ...
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HSJ LocalCommunity trust to restrict GP referrals due to 'severe pressure'
Leeds Community Healthcare Trust has told GPs it is restricting referrals for two types of routine procedure The trust says it is facing “severe pressure” Leeds Teaching Hospital also facing “unprecedented pressure”, according to CCG letter A major community trust has told local GPs it will be restricting ...
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HSJ LocalBig STP plots 'accountable care organisations' across 2.5m patch
New commissioning structure a key plank of West Yorkshire and Harrogate STP Plans include strengthening the region’s joint committee of CCGs and setting up ACOs to manage capitated budgets for their local populations West Yorkshire and Harrogate STPs focus on nine specialist areas, with local areas drawing up own ...
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NewsRevealed: New oversight ratings for every NHS trust
Each trust placed in one of four categories based on the level of support they require from NHS Improvement Trusts will be formally categorised next month as part of the regulator’s new “single oversight framework” Thirty-five out of 238 trusts will have “maximum autonomy” See every rating in the ...
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NewsNorth of England: Staff survey best and worst performers
Analysis of the best and worst performers in the North of England region on key measures in the NHS staff survey 2015, released today.
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NewsNHS Confederation chief executive to leave
Rob Webster, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, has resigned ahead of taking over at the South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust.
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NewsFormer head of leadership at NHS England jailed
Neil Wood was part of a group convicted of unlawfully taking £3.5m from NHS England and two trusts Case revolved around payments made for training videos featuring his wife Wood was a senior manager at LYPFT until March 2013, and also worked with Leeds Community Healthcare before moving ...
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HSJ LocalLeeds Community Healthcare 'requires improvement', CQC finds
PERFORMANCE: Leeds Community Healthcare Trust has been rated ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalCancer patients miss out on surgery due to winter pressures
PERFORMANCE: Elective surgery in “many specialties” - including cancer – has been postponed or cancelled in Leeds because of excess demand for services over winter.
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HSJ LocalCommunity NHS trust appoints charity boss as chief executive
WORKFORCE: Leeds Community Healthcare Trust has appointed charity boss Thea Stein as its new chief executive.
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NewsNon-acute leaders join Dalton review panel
Two healthcare chiefs with experience in the non-acute sector have joined the Dalton review panel