Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Hospital trusts ditch shared chair role

2024-08-23T11:09:00+01:00

Two large hospital trusts have dropped their shared chair arrangement. 

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Former trust CEO reverses retirement after four months

2024-08-19T10:20:00+01:00

An acute trust chief executive who retired in the spring has returned to the NHS in a senior interim role.

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.

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Chair of £3bn trusts stands down

2024-07-08T10:00:00+01:00

The chair of two large hospital trusts has stepped down after taking up a ministerial job with the new Labour government.

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40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent

2024-05-20T04:00:00+01:00

Fourty per cent of the £150m capital funding pot NHS England made available to incentivise urgent and emergency care improvements was not distributed, data shown to HSJ reveals.

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Trusts offered up to £4m to make last-ditch attempt on A&E target

2024-03-12T17:28:00+00:00

NHS England has confirmed new financial incentives for trusts to deliver strong performance against the four-hour emergency target this month.

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Trust names ‘inspiration’ former receptionist as CEO

2024-02-19T05:17:00+00:00

Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust has promoted Bas Sadiq, who joined the NHS as an outpatient receptionist 20 years ago, to chief executive.

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Trusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams

2024-01-22T12:58:00+00:00

Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.

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Revealed: Official data masking long waits for the sickest patients

2023-11-24T05:10:00+00:00

Several trusts are failing to admit their sickest emergency patients in a timely fashion, despite performing well in official waiting time statistics, HSJ can reveal.

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London Eye: Missing the police

2023-11-22T13:26:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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‘Outstanding’ hospital CEO to leave after 18 months

2023-11-16T12:30:00+00:00

An acute trust chief executive is retiring next spring after a year-and-a-half in post.

RAAC

Hospitals close areas after discovering RAAC planks

2023-10-20T12:27:00+01:00

More hospitals have closed parts of their site after discovering potentially unsafe concrete had been used in the building structures, HSJ has learned.

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

Exclusive: Site-level A&E performance revealed for the first time

2023-10-02T04:33:00+01:00

The true scale of poor performance against the four-hour waiting time target at individual A&E sites, which is often masked by the official trust-level data, has been laid bare for the first time by information acquired by HSJ.

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ICS calls in turnaround director after plunging £70m into the red

2023-09-25T03:53:00+01:00

An integrated care system has brought in a financial turnaround director after racking up an unplanned deficit of more than £70m in the first five months of the 2023-24 financial year.

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Every acute in ICS to use the same EPR after £44m deal

2023-09-07T14:26:00+01:00

One of the last trusts in London to move away from paper records has named Oracle Cerner as its preferred electronic patient record supplier in a 10-year deal worth £44m.

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Recovery Watch: ‘Grey area’ over key A&E target

2023-03-22T14:16:00+00:00

Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ emergency care correspondent Matt Discombe

Ben clover expert briefing

London Eye: Where’s the harm?

2023-02-15T13:20:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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NHSE ‘mistaken’ in prioritising ‘headline funding’, says ex-Treasury mandarin

2023-01-20T12:29:00+00:00

A trust chair and former senior Treasury official says NHS England has repeatedly made the ‘mistake’ of pushing for maximum headline increases in their main revenue budget – which has meant less funding being allocated for transformative investments.

Ben clover expert briefing

London Eye: Priced out of the market

2023-01-18T13:22:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Exclusive: Thousands of referrals for sick babies turned down due to lack of beds

2022-12-01T12:20:00+00:00

More than 1,000 referrals to admit very sick or premature babies to neonatal units were rejected in the last year due to a lack of beds, data obtained by HSJ has revealed.