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Revealed: The top-performing ICSs defying deprivation challenges
West Country Chronicle: Trust in talks to hire staff from 'game-changing' centre
Long-serving CEO announces retirement
Mental Health Matters: Tide finally turning on physical checks
Multiple deaths due to care delays highlighted in damning CQC report
New chair for acute trust
West Country Chronicle: Scandal-hit trusts show signs of progress
Nearly half of trust’s beds filled by patients fit to be discharged
ICS set to miss July two-year waiters target by 860 patients
Hospital CEO driven to A&E after fearing ambulance delays
Revealed: The areas with the strongest and weakest primary care
Revealed: Surge in serious incidents caused by ambulance delays
Governance scandal trust failing to manage complaints
Patients asked to travel 200 miles in push to cut elective waits
‘Political targets’ could make NHS ‘forget all the system stuff’, warns trust CEO
Ambulance waits hit two hours for heart attacks and strokes
Long ambulance handovers and covid staff absences soar
The Integrator: The South West’s nightmare may soon spread to the rest of England
Trusts scrap long-awaited merger
The Ward Round: Are 50,000 more nurses enough in a post-pandemic world?
West Country Chronicle: Scandal-hit trusts show signs of progress
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
Recovery Watch: The 20 trusts with three quarters of the NHS's two year waiters
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
ICS set to miss July two-year waiters target by 860 patients
One of England’s most challenged integrated care systems is set to miss by more than 800 patients the government’s target of eliminating two-year elective waits by July.
Patients asked to travel 200 miles in push to cut elective waits
Long waiting times at Devon’s acute hospitals have forced commissioners to offer patients treatment 200 miles away in London in a bid to reduce the elective backlog.
Trusts scrap long-awaited merger
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
West Country Chronicle: Trusts set ‘enablers’ for merger
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
Former ambassador appointed chair of merging trust
An acute and community trust has appointed a former UK ambassador as its new chair.
HSJ Awards 2021: Acute Sector Innovation of the Year
WINNER: Royal Devon and Exeter FT: Patient-Led Home Blood Testing
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Award
The pharmacy department of a district general hospital worked with the multidisciplinary team in orthopaedics to reduce variation in medication use among elective hip and knee replacement patients. The project focused on the following points to optimise medication use:
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Cancer Care Initiative of the Year
At the outset of the pandemic a new telephone service was established to proactively call cancer patients to check their wellbeing, offer holistic therapy, provide local information and support, refer to appropriate services or simply provide a listening ear and reduce isolation.
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and Royal Devon & Exeter NHSFT joined the NHSE/I Enhanced Supportive Care pilot in 2016, promoting earlier implementation of supportive/palliative care within cancer care to prevent and manage adverse effects of cancer and cancer treatment. Since 2019 our collaborative has analysed the most comprehensive ESC data available, ...
More than a dozen trust chairs receive two salaries as shared leadership spreads
Sixteen people are now chairing more than one NHS trust, but there is significant variation in how much they are paid for their extra roles, an HSJ analysis has found.
Neighbouring ICSs plan single hospital IT system
Five trusts across two integrated care systems are drawing up plans to roll out a single electronic patient record funded by the government’s flagship infrastructure project.
Trust buys Nightingale hospital to help tackle elective backlog
A hospital trust has bought the site of its local Nightingale Hospital, because it wants to continue using it to help tackle the elective backlog.
Virtual clinics can enable remote monitoring of rheumatology patients
North Devon Healthcare Trust has pioneered virtual clinics to improve access for patients stable on advanced therapies for rheumatoid arthritis bringing benefits both to patients and to the NHS
‘40 new hospitals’ trust puts new IT system ahead of building
An acute and community trust, which has been allocated money as part of the “40 new hospitals” programme, is prioritising buying a new electronic patient record ahead of rebuilding its estate.
‘Secretive’ safety findings set to be revealed direct to CQC
The Care Quality Commission may in future be notified when ‘secretive’ external reviews have looked at patient safety issues within trusts.
West Country Chronicle: The NHS is failing to diagnose Devon’s autistic children
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
Merging trusts seek digital investment with ‘40 new hospitals’ funds
Two acute and community trusts are considering spending part of their government-funded estates cash on a major digital transformation project, amid plans to merge into one organisation.