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NHSE escalates intervention in four trusts in ‘exceptional’ move

2025-08-01T11:05:00+01:00

NHS England has moved four trusts into its most challenged category for elective performance in an ‘exceptional’ move outside of the normal schedule, HSJ has learnt.

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Children’s heart unit in ‘very precarious state’

2025-07-29T04:05:00+01:00

A surgeon at one of England’s largest teaching trusts has had their practice restricted following the deaths of two children, amid a “worrying and significant deterioration” in mortality rates for its children’s heart service.

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Staff left 'vulnerable' after concerns 'ignored' by trust leadership

2025-07-28T05:22:00+01:00

A culture in which staff felt “done to” and not able to raise concerns safely to a disconnected leadership have all contributed to “a longstanding sense of dissatisfaction” and “continuing” fears over care quality at one of the NHS’s largest teaching trusts, an NHS England review has discovered.

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Teaching trust CEO to leave amid maternity scrutiny

2025-07-23T12:59:00+01:00

The CEO of a major teaching trust is to retire after less than three years in the role, HSJ has learned.

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Charity CEO to replace trust’s chair of 12 years

2025-06-30T15:32:00+01:00

The CEO of a road safety charity has been appointed chair of a major teaching trust.

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Exclusive: Baby died of hospital infection despite ‘overcrowding’ warning

2025-06-26T11:48:00+01:00

A baby died with an infection caught on a neonatal unit, despite earlier warnings about outbreaks due to its “approach to overcrowding” of cots, HSJ has learned.

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Patient Safety Watch: For safer maternity care, we need action, not words

2025-06-20T08:47:00+01:00

HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt

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Trust’s leaders ‘focused on new hospital, not safety’, finds CQC

2025-06-20T05:17:00+01:00

Leaders at a trust with “inadequate” maternity services were focused on plans for a new hospital “to the detriment of current service challenges”, the care regulator has said.

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CQC warns trust over maternity staffing

2025-06-11T13:27:00+01:00

The trust with the highest perinatal mortality rates in the country has been told it must improve its midwifery staffing.

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Basic errors lay behind trust’s botched IT upgrade, leak reveals

2025-05-30T16:31:00+01:00

A string of basic errors led to a teaching trust botching a pathology lab IT upgrade, causing major disruption to tests, according to an internal review seen by HSJ.

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External reviews ordered over trust’s baby death rates

2025-05-29T11:56:00+01:00

Two external reviews are being commissioned into maternity and neonatal care at the trust with the highest perinatal mortality rates.

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Block contracts slowing down surgery

2025-05-14T05:18:00+01:00

Block funding contracts are undermining the throughput and care quality of a common emergency operation, leading clinicians have told HSJ.

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Trusts must cover ‘new hospital’ redundancy costs

2025-04-16T11:57:00+01:00

Trusts must cover their own redundancy costs caused by delays to projects in the New Hospital Programme, despite hopes they would be covered centrally, HSJ has learned.

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£150m ‘wasted’ planning for ‘paused’ new hospitals

2025-04-03T11:43:00+01:00

More than £150m spent planning “new hospital” projects which are now in the long grass may need to be written off, according to estimates seen by HSJ.

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CQC tells trust to move care of sick babies

2025-04-01T14:56:00+01:00

A trust has moved the care of some sick babies out of one of its neonatal units at the Care Quality Commission’s request.

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Trusts with persistently high baby deaths revealed

2025-03-28T04:22:00+00:00

Two hospital trusts have recorded high adjusted mortality rates for five of the past seven years, according to HSJ analysis of maternity safety audit findings.

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Delayed hospital rebuilds may never happen, trusts fear

2025-02-21T12:20:00+00:00

Planned hospital rebuilds have been pushed so far into the future that NHS insiders believe they may never happen, HSJ has learned, despite the government insisting all projects will be completed.

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Delays to new hospital could add £800m to project’s cost, trust warns

2025-02-04T06:16:00+00:00

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.

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Carbon Copy: Old hospitals for longer

2025-01-28T14:29:00+00:00

The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.

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Revealed: Roof leaks and derelict buildings at hospitals with most empty space

2025-01-20T12:53:00+00:00

More than 10,000 square metres of hospital space is being left vacant across some of England’s largest hospitals because of disrepair and decay.