North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

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‘Suboptimal’ IT system still used by multiple trusts

2024-09-13T04:59:00+01:00

More than a dozen trusts are still using a widely criticised “suboptimal” electronic patient record system, which was discontinued by its supplier more than two years ago, HSJ can reveal.

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‘Wholly unrealistic’ NHSE financial recovery policy risks ‘significant harm’ warns ICS

2024-04-23T04:00:00+01:00

Leaders of an integrated care system in the Midlands have warned they cannot make the scale of staffing cuts required to balance the books without putting patients at risk.

Deficit

Consultants sent into troubled system after £140m deficit warning

2024-01-30T12:26:00+00:00

NHS England has sent a consultancy firm into a troubled health system, after it said its financial plan would be missed by up to £140m.

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Trust appoints CEO after two years as interim

2023-12-18T12:57:00+00:00

An ‘outstanding’ mental health trust has made its long-term interim chief executive substantive, it has announced.

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HSJ Awards 2022: Trust of the Year

2022-11-18T00:01:00+00:00

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2022 HSJ Awards shortlist revealed

2022-08-09T05:00:00+01:00

The shortlist for the 2022 HSJ Awards has been revealed after the conclusion of the first stage of judging.

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Trust bosses ‘disgusted’ at MPs who claim covid impact exaggerated

2020-11-09T05:30:00+00:00

Local NHS leaders have publicly hit out at politicians for questioning the need for a second national lockdown, with one chief executive inviting MPs to either visit her hospital to see the pressures themselves, or to ‘sod off’.

alcohol

Almost all NHS detox units face closure without reform to 'precarious' funding

2020-08-18T12:58:00+01:00

Inpatient detoxification units in England are warning they could close — causing possible increases in substance and alcohol related deaths — unless NHS England changes the “precarious” way they are currently funded.

Innovation and technology

First ‘digital aspirant’ trusts revealed by NHSX

2020-03-10T21:57:00+00:00

Twenty-three trusts will share a £28m pot of technology funding as part of the first wave of “digital aspirant” providers, NHSX has announced.

Nurses

Tripling in support workers substituting for nurses shows practice is ‘the new normal’

2019-08-30T11:49:00+01:00

The number of registered nursing shifts being covered by less qualified support workers at an “outstanding” mental health trust has tripled since 2016.

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Small mental health trust promoted to 'outstanding'

2019-03-28T05:28:00+00:00

One of the smallest mental health trusts in the country has been rated “outstanding” overall by the Care Quality Commission.

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Mental health trust appoints new CEO

2019-01-23T06:15:00+00:00

A mental health trust in the West Midlands has appointed a new chief executive, the provider has announced.

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New chief appointed to mental health trust

2018-11-14T13:49:00+00:00

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust has appointed a mental health chief from Staffordshire as its new leader.

Workforce

Staff shortages delay opening of trust’s new psychiatric ward

2018-06-12T11:42:00+01:00

Staff shortages have forced a trust to push back the opening of a new ward treating patients with some of the most severe mental health needs.

Midland metropolitan hospital

Decision over Carillion Hospital 'in autumn' as costs soar

2018-06-07T11:51:00+01:00

A government decision on the future of a privately financed major acute hospital that was hit by Carillion’s collapse is not expected until autumn.

Four trusts named as digital exemplars for 'hopeless' IT system

2018-05-22T09:54:00+01:00

Four trusts will receive additional national support to improve the Lorenzo IT system, five years after a senior MP branded it a “hopeless system” supported by a  government bribe.

Cleaning

Trusts yet to agree permanent deals for former Carillion services

2018-05-08T06:00:00+01:00

Permanent deals are yet to be agreed by NHS trusts whose facilities management services were hit by the collapse of Carillion, HSJ can reveal.

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Serco closes in on NHS contract after Carillion collapse

2018-04-18T11:04:00+01:00

Serco is poised to take over facilities management services at a mental health trust after previous provider Carillion was liquidated.

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Serco set to take over Carillion NHS contracts

2018-02-23T06:00:00+00:00

Facilities management services at five NHS hospital trusts could be taken over by Serco in a £29m deal, following the collapse of Carillion.