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Milton Keynes Hospital

ICB admits defeat on key September target

2024-07-23T04:35:00+01:00

An East of England integrated care board expects to miss both the main national elective recovery target of eliminating 65-week breaches by September and a top diagnostic target, according to board papers.

Newborn baby

Units rated ‘inadequate’ after inspectors report racism among staff

2024-07-05T06:49:00+01:00

A trust has been issued with a warning notice, and two of its maternity units downgraded to “inadequate”, amid concerns about short staffing and racism.

Colchester Hospital

Trust hit by strike over backpay dispute

2024-07-03T11:58:00+01:00

Another trust faces strike action by healthcare assistants, as a dispute which began in the North West spreads to other parts of the country.

Luton and Dunstable

‘Our hospital needs to double in size’, says trust

2024-03-25T12:48:00+00:00

Trust leaders say their main acute hospital needs to double in size to meet modern standards, as part of a £2.5bn investment needed across their estates.

Payslip

ICB warned of ‘large financial risk’ from HCA wage claim

2024-03-14T13:45:00+00:00

NHS organisations across Surrey are to review healthcare assistants’ pay in the face of potential strike action at one trust.

Bedford Hospital

Strikes spread to more trusts over backpay dispute

2024-02-28T12:27:00+00:00

Strike action by healthcare assistants looks set to spread to more trusts, having so far been confined to the North West region.

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Trusts ‘unlock radical ambitions’ with move to same EPR

2024-01-09T05:07:00+00:00

More than half of the acute trusts in a single region are set to move to the same electronic patient record system, a shift one of their CIOs described as a “serendipitous” opportunity for sharing staff and other resources.

Stroke patient rehab

Stiffer stroke target introduced – despite failure to meet old standard

2023-11-29T05:13:00+00:00

The failure of trusts to offer stroke patients the level of rehab required by standards introduced 10 years ago has not prevented the publication of new guidance which demands even higher performance.

Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

‘Very high’ DNA rates caused by IT failures, trust discovers

2023-02-02T12:51:00+00:00

An acute trust has discovered an IT issue which appears to have led to “very high” numbers of patients not turning up for their appointments.

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Waiting times got worse at trusts that dropped A&E target

2022-12-13T06:00:00+00:00

Trusts trialling NHS England’s new A&E metrics reported worse average waiting times for admitted patients than those which stayed on the four-hour target, an HSJ analysis suggests.

Waiting room

Revealed: NHS England’s list of trusts with worst elective and cancer problems

2022-08-19T06:07:00+01:00

Almost a third of acute trusts have been identified by NHS England as being ‘at risk’ of missing key targets for electives and cancer recovery, with some facing ‘periodic calls between ministers and CEOs’, HSJ can reveal.

Surgery

Trusts failing on waiting list ask told to ‘get act together’

2022-05-03T05:20:00+01:00

Trusts have been told to ‘get their act together’ on health inequalities, after HSJ research suggested only a small minority have so far published data on disparities in waiting times between different patient groups.

Addenbrooke's

Lassa fever case sparks ‘major incident’ across region’s NHS

2022-02-11T17:28:00+00:00

The East of England region has declared a major incident due to a case of Lassa fever at a major teaching hospital knocking out significant critical care capacity, HSJ can reveal.

Bedford hospital

Trust identified as an 'alarm outlier' by national surgery review

2021-12-14T12:34:00+00:00

A district general hospital has been branded an “alarm outlier” due to higher-than-average death rates for a major abdominal surgery.

Ledger

Trust complains of ‘very harsh’ exclusion from national costing report

2021-07-26T03:45:00+01:00

Fourteen trusts have had their financial data excluded from a national survey of spending due to accounting errors, in a process that one described as ‘very harsh’.

Pathology

Revealed: Trusts pay £15m to Serco in fallout from pathology deal

2021-04-12T05:44:00+01:00

Two trusts have paid an outsourcing firm £15m to leave the joint venture which has provided their pathology services over the last 10 years, HSJ  can reveal.

Bedford hospital

‘Medically fit’ patients caught covid while waiting for discharge, trust admits

2021-02-04T12:32:00+00:00

A hospital trust has admitted that ‘medically fit’ patients caught covid on its wards while waiting to be discharged, with some of the cases under investigation.

Stevens Simon

ICS criticised for ‘poor relationships’ and NHS leaders ‘jumping to Stevens’ commands’

2021-02-03T12:52:00+00:00

A review of a health system deemed to be among the most advanced in terms of partnership working has discovered poor relationships and a lack of trust between partners.

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Third of region’s ICUs exceed ‘maximum safe capacity’

2021-01-11T17:53:00+00:00

More than a third of critical care units in the East of England are either at or have exceeded their maximum surge capacity, information leaked to HSJ reveals, and all but one are above their normal capacity.

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Covid infections caught in hospital rise by a third in one week

2020-12-18T15:58:00+00:00

The number of people likely to have caught covid-19 in NHS hospitals in England has risen by more than a third in the last week.