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ICS explores wide-ranging service reorganisation

2024-05-31T06:59:00+01:00

An integrated care system is seeking support to explore a wide-ranging reconfiguration programme encompassing all acute and community services, HSJ has learned.

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‘We don’t want to be a DGH’ says smallest trust’s CEO

2024-01-29T05:47:00+00:00

England’s smallest acute provider could have a bright future providing services for the community as well as delivering regional and national specialist services, its new chief executive has said.

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Right people, right time, right information - A blueprint for stronger multidisciplinary teams and efficient patient pathways

2023-12-08T07:00:00+00:00

Discover how digital infrastructure can transform multidisciplinary teamwork, reduce referral times, and enhance staff experience

Tony Chambers

Concerns raised over Letby trust CEO before new appointment

2023-08-30T12:03:00+01:00

Governors at a trust which hired the former chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital midway through the trial of Lucy Letby had raised concerns about his appointment, HSJ understands.

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Trust gets permanent chief after merger plans dropped

2023-06-21T15:18:00+01:00

A specialist trust which had previously been the subject of takeover talks has appointed a new substantive chief executive.

Tony Chambers

Trust names interim CEO after dropping merger plan

2023-01-12T16:42:00+00:00

One of England’s smallest trusts has appointed an experienced interim chief executive for nine months while it recruits a permanent replacement.

Steve Jenkin- CEO

Trust CEO to leave within weeks after merger abandoned

2022-12-16T06:00:00+00:00

The chief executive of England’s smallest provider will leave after its merger with a neighbouring provider was abandoned.

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Foundation trust and suspended governor urged to avoid legal battle

2022-11-28T06:38:00+00:00

A judge has urged a foundation trust and the governor it has suspended to settle their differences outside the courts.

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Controversial trust merger abandoned

2022-09-02T12:00:00+01:00

A planned merger between a South Coast mega trust and its much smaller neighbour has been abandoned.

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Former nursing chief drafted in to chair trust at centre of merger row

2022-05-04T11:44:00+01:00

The former chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council has been appointed chair of a small specialist trust involved in a controversial proposed merger.

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Trusts failed to win ‘hearts and minds’ for controversial merger, says review

2022-02-23T11:30:00+00:00

Relationships between a foundation trust’s board and its governors broke down with ‘a cycle of mistrust’ between the two and some governors’ actions placing ‘an additional burden on staff at a time of unprecedented challenge for the NHS,’ an independent review has found.

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New trust chair signs off review of proposed merger

2022-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

A rapid independent review has been launched into how a trust handled a controversial proposed merger and its relations with its governors.

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Trusts delay controversial merger due to ‘operational pressures’

2021-12-10T12:44:00+00:00

A large acute trust and small specialist trust have delayed plans to complete a controversial merger.

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NHS trouble-shooter appointed chair of trust where governors are resisting merger

2021-11-16T05:18:00+00:00

One of England’s smallest trusts – which is in dispute with its governors over an impending merger – has appointed a new chair.

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NHS England orders trust’s governors to work towards controversial merger

2021-11-04T12:28:00+00:00

NHS England and Improvement has imposed extra conditions on a specialist trust’s licence, effectively ordering its council of governors to work towards a merger with a larger neighbour.

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Consultants pass no confidence motion in chief executive

2021-09-30T04:00:00+01:00

Consultants at a specialist trust which is exploring a merger with its larger neighbour have passed a vote of no confidence in its chief executive – and the planned interim chair has had to step down on health grounds.

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ICS admits 14 of its major services are ‘fragile and challenged’

2021-09-16T11:41:00+01:00

Fourteen of an integrated care system’s major services — which account for the ‘majority of [its] planned care’ — have been described as ‘fragile and challenged’.

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Trust boards take next step to merge despite governors’ objections

2021-08-06T13:04:00+01:00

Two foundation trusts in the South East have taken the next steps towards a merger.

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FT in row over ‘bullying behaviour’ ahead of possible merger

2021-08-03T05:09:00+01:00

The board of one of England’s smallest trusts is expected to approve the next steps to merge with its neighbour this week, despite some of its council of governors vehemently opposing the move.

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Trust’s board and governors clash over potential merger

2021-07-28T05:22:00+01:00

The governors and board of one of England’s smallest trusts are at loggerheads over a possible merger with a megatrust neighbour.