Psychosocial MDT cuts FND diagnosis time to 1.8 weeks
Entrant: University Hospitals Leicester Trust
Category: Patient Safety Awards 2026/Best Use of Integrated Care and Partnership Working in Patient Safety Award
Award: Shortlisted
Whole-trust handover model cuts lost ambulance hours from 5,143 to 2,249
Entrant: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust and East Midlands Ambulance Service
Category: Patient Safety Awards 2026/Urgent and Emergency Care Safety Initiative of the Year
Award: Shortlisted
Daily digital monitoring achieves 91.7 per cent symptom check-in adherence
Entrant: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust – Acute Oncology Service
Category: Patient Safety Awards 2026/Patient Safety Pilot Project of the Year
Patient Safety Awards 2026/Safety Improvement Through Technology Award
Award: Shortlisted
Urgent warning issued over cardiac death risk
A coroner has issued an urgent warning that the failure to implement an emergency cardiac pathway could result in more deaths.
Exclusive: Investigations launched into potential harm at children’s service
A major acute trust has launched two reviews over care failures potentially affecting 130 children, HSJ has learned.
£2.8bn trust group unravels
Three Midlands hospital trusts are unravelling their shared chair and CEO arrangement.
Trust signs £53m contract after legal challenge
A hospital trust has awarded a 10-year contract worth £53m to a UK tech supplier after a legal battle.
Four trusts rated ‘red’ on baby deaths
Four hospital trusts have been assessed as having higher than expected rates of both stillbirth and neonatal deaths, according to HSJ analysis of a national safety audit.
Half of ‘New Hospitals’ will not open until at least 2038
Eighteen of the 40 schemes included in the New Hospital Programme will not be completed for at least another 12 years, a new government analysis has revealed.
Patient Safety Watch: Maternity services need change now, not in 2030
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
Exclusive: Mackey’s trust gets league table upgrade after last-minute data correction
The trust led by NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey was promoted from the third to the second “segment” of the new provider league table following a last-minute correction to one of the data points which underpin the rankings, HSJ can reveal.
The Download: The last Next Big Thing
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by Ben Clover and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
Fourteen maternity investigation trusts named
Fourteen trusts are to be subject to a government-commissioned investigation into maternity service quality, it was announced today.
The Download: The AVT will hear you now
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
New CEO for trust with high staff satisfaction
An acute trust in the East Midlands has appointed a new chief executive following a “highly competitive” recruitment campaign.
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.
Carbon Copy: Boiling, freezing, failing
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman
£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.
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.