Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Andrew-Morgan-e1561996742803

Group CEO brought out of retirement to chair struggling provider

2024-09-27T09:23:00+01:00

A former group chief executive who retired from the service after 40 years earlier this summer is returning to chair two trusts in the Midlands.

Car park

Revealed: Staff must now pay to park at five in six hospitals

2024-09-19T04:00:00+01:00

Only around 15 per cent of England’s 140 acute and specialist trusts are still offering free car parking for staff, HSJ analysis has found.

Hartland_Matt_sq

Integrated care trust to be axed within weeks

2024-09-04T11:29:00+01:00

A first-of-its-kind integrated care trust – set up as part of NHS England’s “new care model” reforms – is set to be legally dissolved within weeks, with its current chief executive moving to an interim role at a nearby provider.

Ambulance

Revealed: the trusts with the worst summer A&E handover delays

2024-08-15T11:47:00+01:00

Patients stuck in ambulances queuing outside A&Es have waited an average of over two hours at two trusts this summer, data published for the first time reveals.

Jo-Williams-540x405

Troubled trust appoints interim CEO from neighbour

2024-08-12T15:03:00+01:00

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has appointed an interim chief executive from a neighbouring specialist provider, just days after the current CEO announced her departure.

SaTH Chief Executive Louise Barnett to upload

CEO who led trust through scandals announces departure

2024-08-06T04:20:00+01:00

The chief executive of a trust mired in maternity and emergency care scandals has announced she is leaving after four years at the helm.

Baby

Third of services rated ‘red’ for baby deaths

2024-07-17T10:00:00+01:00

The proportion of trusts with maternity services “red rated” for neonatal mortality rose from around a quarter in 2021 to a third in 2022, according to the latest national audit.

Hospital corridor with gurneys-157533457

Corridor care ‘must not be the norm’, NHSE warns trusts

2024-06-27T10:45:00+01:00

NHS England has warned trusts corridor care “must not be considered the norm”, adding that the failings exposed by a recent undercover documentary were “not acceptable”.

Aidan Fowler

‘Burdensome’ patient safety inquiries taking up too much time, says NHSE chief

2024-06-14T05:00:00+01:00

NHS England’s head of patient safety has suggested too much time and resource is being spent on “burdensome” inquiries to investigate failings in the system.

empty board room meeting

Maternity-scandal trust to share chair with neighbour

2024-05-22T11:39:00+01:00

A struggling acute trust has announced plans to share a chair with its neighbouring community provider.

Royal shrewsbury hospital

No acute trust now rated ‘inadequate’ as CQC upgrades troubled provider

2024-05-15T05:04:00+01:00

The last acute trust deemed “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission has had its rating improved to “requires improvement”, the regulator has announced today.

newham

Fire warnings yet to be fully dealt with at eight hospitals

2024-04-05T11:00:00+01:00

Eight hospitals in England have fire safety warnings attached to them, with half in place since 2022 or earlier, HSJ can reveal.

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

Thirty trusts report more 12-hour waits, despite national improvement

2024-02-27T12:43:00+00:00

Long A&E waits have got worse at more than one in five acute trusts, despite an improving trend nationally.

Deficit money coins graph

ICS admits it will miss financial plan by £70m

2024-01-17T11:13:00+00:00

An integrated care system has admitted it will miss its financial plan by more than £70m this year.

Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

More patients ‘now dying in A&E’ finds trust review

2024-01-05T12:20:00+00:00

Ambulance handover delays and 21-hour waits for a bed in accident and emergency contributed to an increase in harm and mortality at a struggling trust, a review has found.

Princess Royal Hospital - Main Entrance, Telford

Badging urgent care as ‘A&E local’ is ‘risk to patient safety’, advisers tell government

2023-12-22T15:55:00+00:00

A government advisory panel has warned against badging urgent care centres as “A&E local”, something previously proposed by ministers and included in a controversial hospital reconfiguration plan.

Sarah Jane Marsh

Exclusive: NHSE crackdown on 10-hour ambulance delays

2023-12-18T19:59:00+00:00

NHS England has launched a new crackdown on trusts it says have a ‘management strategy’ to hold patients in the back of ambulances to cope with emergency pressures inside their hospitals, HSJ has learned.

maternity newborn baby child

Trust leaders raise alarm over ‘mad’ approach to scrutiny of maternity services

2023-11-30T05:12:00+00:00

The management of fragile maternity services is being hamstrung by a lack of clear standards and direction from government and regulators, trust chairs and chief executives have told HSJ.

georgia stevenson

Indigestible and illegable: the sorry state of board safety reports

2023-11-06T06:47:00+00:00

A report highlights that maternity and neonatal services are often regular agenda items at board meetings, but the quality and quantity of information that is presented and the subsequent discussion (or lack thereof) doesn’t lead to effective oversight, writes Georgia Stevenson

University Hospitals Plymouth Trust

Revealed: Four trusts report quarter of all ‘critical incidents’

2023-10-25T12:18:00+01:00

More than a quarter of ‘critical incidents’ have been declared by just four trusts since the start of the crisis in urgent and emergency care.