Trusts offered up to £4m to make last-ditch attempt on A&E target
NHS England has confirmed new financial incentives for trusts to deliver strong performance against the four-hour emergency target this month.
Trusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.
Trusts dispute NHS England’s ‘benefits’ claim over FDP pilot
Five trusts have contradicted NHS England’s claim that they are “actively realising benefits” from pilots of the Federated Data Platform.
ICB hands urgent treatment centres to trusts after ending firm’s contract
An integrated care board has handed the operation of six urgent treatment centres to trusts after terminating a private provider’s contract.
Shelford trusts now paying consultants up to £269 an hour to cover strike night shifts
Seven of the 10 largest teaching trusts are understood to have acquiesced to demands by the British Medical Association to pay consultants higher overtime rates for covering August’s junior doctors’ strike.
Radiographers warn next strike could hit 100 trusts
The Society of Radiographers is considering reballoting members in an effort to significantly increase the scope of its industrial action, the union’s director of industrial strategy has told HSJ.
London Eye: Rebuilding the trauma centre
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Around 20 trusts ‘still without electric vehicle charging points’
Around 20 trusts have not yet installed any electric vehicle charging points on their sites, HSJ analysis shows.
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.
Trust refuses to wait for hospital rebuild
Waiting until 2030 to start redeveloping its hospital would be ‘hugely damaging’, a leading trust’s chief executive has said, after it was identified as one of eight schemes which will not be funded before that date by the government’s new hospitals programme.
Exclusive: Trusts abandon renewable electricity commitment
Around half of the largest trusts are not buying all their electricity from renewable sources despite a national requirement to do so, as prices of this type of energy rocket, HSJ understands.
London Eye: Catastrophic failure, but not the trust you’d expect
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Waiting times got worse at trusts that dropped A&E target
Trusts trialling NHS England’s new A&E metrics reported worse average waiting times for admitted patients than those which stayed on the four-hour target, an HSJ analysis suggests.
London Eye: Surviving winter
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target
Only one in five trusts has reached the level of digitisation required by 2025 – more than three years after the target was set, tech chiefs have revealed.
London Eye: The nursing walkout isn't really about pay
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: Doing North Bristol here
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.