WORKFORCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has made three key board appointments.
Mark Smith is to be chief operating officer, Yvette Oade executive medical director, and Suzanne Hinchcliffe executive director of nursing and quality assurance.
February 2013
Mental health, community and ambulance trusts have raised fresh concerns they are losing out under NHS funding rules – with one provider facing a £16m shortfall in recent years.
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
Government pay advisers have raised concerns about trusts spending an estimated £7m a year on recruitment firms “to pursue the same talent” for executive posts.
The accumulated cost of delays to a new hospital building at Leeds General Infirmary could now total as much as £800m following the project’s opening being pushed back again by ministers last month, the trust’s chief executive has warned.
One of the NHS’s most influential chairs is standing down after over a decade in post at a large teaching hospital trust.
A chief executive of a major acute trust has said much of the ‘emphasis’ placed on CEOs represents an ‘outdated model of leadership’.
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