Two trusts in city with ‘hospital for every part of body’ to merge CEO role
The city with five separate specialist trusts will see two of its trusts share a single chief executive from early next year.
Trust reviews leadership options as CEO leaves for scandal-hit neighbour
A scandal-hit acute trust has appointed the long-serving leader of a specialist provider as its substantive chief executive.
North by North West: Magna Carta to ‘mandated support’
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North by North West: Liverpool promises to change
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Trust merger ‘bedevilled with problems’, says key proponent
One of the key proponents of a major trust merger has told HSJ its implementation has been “bedevilled with problems”, and that leaders have so far failed to deliver its benefits.
North by North West: Accountants take back control
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Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target
Only one in five trusts has reached the level of digitisation required by 2025 – more than three years after the target was set, tech chiefs have revealed.
NHSE prompts ICS review of city’s hospitals
NHS England has asked for an independent review to look into the configuration of hospital services in a city with six separate acute and specialist trusts.
HSJ podcast: How to fix an NHS trust
NHS trusts are getting better – that’s the view of the Care Quality Commission, at least, which now rates only a single organisation as “inadequate”, and two-thirds as “good” or “outstanding”, a big shift from five years ago.
£2bn ‘hospital group’ under discussion
The prospect of creating a £2bn ‘group’ of hospital providers in Liverpool is under formal discussion, senior sources have told HSJ.
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and Royal Devon & Exeter NHSFT joined the NHSE/I Enhanced Supportive Care pilot in 2016, promoting earlier implementation of supportive/palliative care within cancer care to prevent and manage adverse effects of cancer and cancer treatment. Since 2019 our collaborative has analysed the most comprehensive ESC data available, ...
Revealed: The seven trusts getting £6m each for tech improvements
Seven trusts will receive £6m each over the next three years in the second phase of Matt Hancock’s plan to improve IT infrastructure in the health service.
City ‘under the cosh’ from covid forced to admit adults to children’s critical care unit
Liverpool has been forced to re-open a paediatric intensive care unit to adults as the NHS chief executive warned the city was “right back under the cosh” from the third wave of the pandemic.
Exclusive: NHS pleas for covid upgrade funds went unmet ahead of second wave
Local NHS requests for hundreds of millions of pounds of government funding to help deal with covid pressures have gone unanswered throughout the pandemic, an HSJ investigation has found.
What does the NHS staff survey really tell us?
The quality and safety of patient care the system delivers depends on the wellbeing, morale and sustainability of frontline staff members. By Gordon Forbes
North by North West: Why Liverpool missed out
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North by North West: Going electronic
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Hundreds of outsourced staff strike for ‘fair pay’
Outsourced support staff at two teaching hospitals have begun two days of strike action over their pay rates.
North by North West: Capital boosts
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North by North West: No case to answer
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