North by North West: Trusts prepare for fight over maternity
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System must show ‘more courage’ to relocate hospital, says CEO
System leaders must show ‘more courage’ to address the patient safety risks attached to the only standalone women’s hospital in the NHS, its chief executive says.
North by North West: Can region justify its outlying workforce numbers?
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More hips replaced in private hospitals than in NHS
The number of NHS-funded hip replacements carried out last year remained well below pre-covid levels, while the total funded privately nearly doubled to cover the shortfall, new data reveals.
Recovery Watch: The trusts slipping the most on PM’s pledge
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 bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
North by North West: Unsanctioned CEO payoff the least bad option
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North by North West: ‘We are being watched’
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Hospitals to review concrete risks to ‘maintain safety and confidence’
NHS boards have been told to obtain extra assurance around the risks to unsafe concrete beams in their estate, following the sudden closure of school buildings.
Two trusts move to shared leadership model
The leadership of a specialist trust in Liverpool is set to be taken over by the chief executive of the city’s main acute provider.
Radiographers warn next strike could hit 100 trusts
The Society of Radiographers is considering reballoting members in an effort to significantly increase the scope of its industrial action, the union’s director of industrial strategy has told HSJ.
Revealed: The trusts offering ‘BMA rates’ to doctors covering strikes
Around a quarter of acute trusts paid consultants premium rates to provide strike cover during the first two junior doctors’ walkouts, broadly matching the pay levels demanded by the British Medical Association’s ‘rate card’, HSJ research has found.
Fresh spending crackdown as NHSE is accused of ‘micro-managing’
Fifteen health systems that submitted deficit plans have been told to review all their staffing vacancies to ‘consider where the removal or freezing of posts is appropriate’.
‘No new suppliers’ promises ICS as four trusts eye EPR purchases
A major acute provider will make a second attempt at procuring a new electronic patient record, while three neighbouring trusts are planning to launch a separate tender process, HSJ has learned.
North by North West: What now for The Christie?
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CEO who quit ahead of damning CQC report given new role at trust-hosted agency
The former chief executive of a major trust who stepped down after a CQC inspection rated its leadership ‘inadequate’ has been employed as a director of an NHS audit agency hosted by the provider.
North by North West: Magna Carta to ‘mandated support’
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North by North West: PwC to review system’s ‘£800m deficit’
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North by North West: Flory tasked with getting a grip
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Details of 14,000 salaries shared by mistake
A spreadsheet containing the personal information of nearly 14,000 staff, including their salaries, has been mistakenly emailed to hundreds of people at a major trust, HSJ has learned.