Trust reviews leadership options as CEO leaves for scandal-hit neighbour
A scandal-hit acute trust has appointed the long-serving leader of a specialist provider as its substantive chief executive.
Cost improvement plans will not solve the NHS’s financial crisis
The current NHS ‘cost improvement model’ is not sufficient to meet financial constraints, but an allocative efficiency approach being applied at Mersey Care Foundation Trust offers hope, its leaders argue
North by North West: Can region justify its outlying workforce numbers?
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Tackling healthcare inequality does not mean prioritising the poor
Ruth Robertson highlights how tackling inequalities in waiting lists calls for inclusivity in addressing disparities amid the growing backlog
North by North West: Criticising your own team’s a risky tactic
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North by North West: Trust backed into corner as strikes escalate
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Population health tools and new pathways are helping Cheshire and Merseyside support those most at risk of fuel poverty.
In response to the UK’s rising fuel poverty crisis, a collaborative initiative in Cheshire and Merseyside utilises data-driven strategies to identify and assist vulnerable individuals, making a meaningful impact on their lives and setting a precedent for broader implementation in the region
Police investigate trust for corporate manslaughter
Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust is being investigated for corporate manslaughter following Lucy Letby’s conviction for murdering babies while working on its neonatal unit.
Exclusive: Government and NHS in talks over £1bn funding gap
Government is in talks with national NHS leaders over how to fill an urgent funding gap of at least £1bn this financial year, HSJ has learned, as new analysis shows all 42 local integrated care systems were behind their own plans less than halfway through 2023-24.
Revealed: the ICSs where delayed discharge rates have doubled in a year
More than half of integrated care systems have managed to cut their rates of delayed discharges this year, but performance worsened in 16 ICSs.
North by North West: ‘We are being watched’
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Two trusts move to shared leadership model
The leadership of a specialist trust in Liverpool is set to be taken over by the chief executive of the city’s main acute provider.
CQC under scrutiny for praising trust during Letby murder spree
The Care Quality Commission has come under scrutiny for its praise of Countess of Chester Hospital during the period when neonatal nurse Lucy Letby has been found to have murdered several babies.
Revealed: How trust execs resisted concerns over Letby
Trust bosses questioned the integrity of doctors who first raised concerns about a nurse who has now been convicted of murdering seven babies, and forced the medics to apologise to her, an HSJ investigation has established.
Doctors accuse trust of ‘disrespect’ after ‘massive’ underpayment of wages
A row has broken out between a teaching trust and the British Medical Association after it emerged more than hundred doctors had been underpaid by ‘massive’ amounts over the last decade.
Revealed: The trusts offering ‘BMA rates’ to doctors covering strikes
Around a quarter of acute trusts paid consultants premium rates to provide strike cover during the first two junior doctors’ walkouts, broadly matching the pay levels demanded by the British Medical Association’s ‘rate card’, HSJ research has found.
Revealed: First ICS digital maturity ratings
HSJ can reveal the first ratings given to every integrated care system for the ‘digital maturity’ of its NHS providers.
North by North West: NHSE’s handling of Christie whistleblowing case faces judicial review
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HSJ Digital Awards 2023: Supporting Elective Recovery Through Digital
WINNER: Cheshire and Merseyside ICS and C2-Ai: Globally Unique AI-Backed System Supporting Prioritisation Based on Clinical Risk, Reducing Emergency Admissions by 8 Per Cent and saving 125 Bed Days Per 1,000 Patients