CEO leaves ‘recovery support’ trust after eight years
The chief executive of a trust in NHS England’s “recovery support” regime is stepping down after eight years in the role, HSJ can reveal.
Revealed: the trusts furthest behind on efficiency plans
A total of 20 trusts had achieved only 30 per cent or less of their 2024-25 planned efficiency programmes by the end of October, with four delivering below 20 per cent, research by HSJ has revealed.
Another ICS added to national financial intervention scheme
An integrated care system has been added to the national “investigation and intervention” regime, making it the 19th of 42 ICSs to require support over deteriorating finances.
Patient Safety Watch: Winter returns with a vengeance
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
Hospital porters to strike over ‘diabolical’ treatment by trust
Hospital porters at an acute trust are set to strike over what a union has called “diabolical” treatment.
System lacks ‘critical self-reflection’, says NHSE
NHS England has accused an integrated care system of lacking “critical self-reflection” about the severity of its problems.
No point in having ‘honest conversations’ with centre on finance, say trust CEOs
Trusts are increasingly deciding there is little benefit in resisting the imposition of unrealistic financial plans demanded by NHS England, some of the country’s leading provider chief executives have told HSJ.
Trust nears annual deficit in three months
A hospital trust has almost reached its planned year-end deficit, within just three months of the financial year.
CEO interview: Alex Whitfield, chief executive, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
Exclusive: Maternity delays spark thousands of safety alerts each year
Maternity departments are raising thousands of safety reports every year about delayed inductions of labour, HSJ can reveal.
Trusts’ performance on key recovery target revealed
Ten trusts have just 1 per cent or fewer of their outpatients on “patient initiated follow-up” pathways, against a target of 5 per cent, official data suggests.
More trusts discover their buildings have faulty concrete
Thirteen more NHS hospitals have identified a potentially unsafe form of concrete in their buildings, causing closures and disruption to wards.
Thirty trusts report more 12-hour waits, despite national improvement
Long A&E waits have got worse at more than one in five acute trusts, despite an improving trend nationally.
ICB and seven trusts put in ‘recovery’ after refusing to submit balanced financial plan
An integrated care board and all seven of its member trusts have been placed into the ‘recovery support programmes’ – formerly known as special measures – by NHS England, after declaring a deficit plan for 2023-24.
What’s changed in the ‘new hospitals’ programme?
HSJ has mapped and charted how the projects in the new hospitals programme have changed following government’s announcement today.
Sunak’s local acute becomes first to be upgraded to ‘good’ since covid
The Care Quality Commission has upgraded a major hospital trust to a ‘good’ rating for what is believed to be the first time since the start of the pandemic.
The Ward Round: A stop-gap with questionable ethics
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.
Trusts left with valueless company shares given in exchange for patient data
Several NHS trusts are reviewing their data-sharing agreements with a technology company after their shares in the firm were rendered currently worthless following its financial collapse
Revealed: Trusts where most staff withhold disability status
More than half the staff at eight trusts have either refused or failed to declare whether they consider themselves ‘disabled’, an HSJ analysis has found.
Neonatal units face ‘redesignation’ under national shake-up
A major shake-up of neonatal care, aimed at reducing mortality and illness, could see dozens of units restricted to caring for less premature babies.