Maternity service suspended twice in two days
A major teaching trust was forced to close its maternity services to new births twice in two days, due to unsafe staffing levels, HSJ can reveal.
Campaigners against care failings at three trusts will help scope national investigation
Three large teaching trusts are highly likely to be included in a government-commissioned “investigation” of NHS maternity and neonatal care after those campaigning for improvements at the organisations were included in the group establishing its terms of reference.
Acute trust CEO to lead GP-owned provider
A retiring acute trust chief executive has been appointed the CEO of a community provider seen as a frontrunner to pioneer the government’s vision of a neighbourhood health service.
Troubled trust sees CEO and deputy announce departure within two weeks
One of the NHS’s largest teaching trusts has announced its deputy chief executive is moving on, just two weeks after its CEO revealed he was retiring.
NHSE escalates intervention in four trusts in ‘exceptional’ move
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.
Children’s heart unit in ‘very precarious state’
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.
Staff left 'vulnerable' after concerns 'ignored' by trust leadership
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.
Teaching trust CEO to leave amid maternity scrutiny
The CEO of a major teaching trust is to retire after less than three years in the role, HSJ has learned.
Charity CEO to replace trust’s chair of 12 years
The CEO of a road safety charity has been appointed chair of a major teaching trust.
Exclusive: Baby died of hospital infection despite ‘overcrowding’ warning
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.
Patient Safety Watch: For safer maternity care, we need action, not words
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Trust’s leaders ‘focused on new hospital, not safety’, finds CQC
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.
CQC warns trust over maternity staffing
The trust with the highest perinatal mortality rates in the country has been told it must improve its midwifery staffing.
Basic errors lay behind trust’s botched IT upgrade, leak reveals
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.
External reviews ordered over trust’s baby death rates
Two external reviews are being commissioned into maternity and neonatal care at the trust with the highest perinatal mortality rates.
Block contracts slowing down surgery
Block funding contracts are undermining the throughput and care quality of a common emergency operation, leading clinicians have told HSJ.
Trusts must cover ‘new hospital’ redundancy costs
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.
£150m ‘wasted’ planning for ‘paused’ new hospitals
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.
CQC tells trust to move care of sick babies
A trust has moved the care of some sick babies out of one of its neonatal units at the Care Quality Commission’s request.
Trusts with persistently high baby deaths revealed
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.