Doctor to chair trust after boardroom row
A clinical oncologist has been appointed to chair a trust whose previous chair quit after a draft investigation found she had “exceeded her authority” in suspending its chief executive.
Smallest trust to get managing director within group structure
England’s smallest trust will have its own managing director and dedicated deputy chair as it transitions into a group model with two other providers.
Revealed: Biggest climbers and fallers on diagnostic waits
Eleven trusts recorded swings of more than 20 percentage points on the headline waiting target for diagnostic tests over the past year.
‘Outstanding’ unit struggling with excess demand
An “outstanding”-rated maternity department is seeking help from other providers to deal with soaring demand.
Ex-banker made chair of hospital group
A group chair has been appointed at two hospitals in Surrey to “strengthen continuity” between the organisations.
Smallest trust picks group partner
England’s smallest trust has proposed forming a group with two acute hospitals in a neighbouring county.
Chair makes way for joint leadership
The chair of England’s smallest trust is to stand down next month, as it prepares to enter into a “strategic partnership”.
First ambulance trusts to share leaders
Two ambulance trusts are set to appoint a joint chair and chief executive, the first to do so in the sector.
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.
‘Overall’ trust ratings scrapped by CQC
The Care Quality Commission is no longer giving “overall” ratings to trusts, it has emerged – instead only issuing a leadership rating at organisational level.
‘Outstanding’ rating for trust’s leaders who ‘have each other's backs’
The “honest, transparent and visible” leadership at a trust whose staff feel they are “part of a family” has been rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
Revealed: Dozens of safety probes kept secret by trusts
Trusts are still keeping reports that reveal serious patient safety concerns secret, HSJ has discovered.
Hospital CEO appointed ICB boss
A hospital chief executive has been appointed to lead an integrated care board in a neighbouring system.
‘Safety concerns’ over provider with £500m new contracts
A patient transport company which is taking over contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds is grappling with concerns about service performance and risk to patients.
‘Significant concerns’ raised over joint chair process
Two acute trusts are planning to move to a group model with a shared chief executive – but one board has raised concerns around proposals for open recruitment for a joint chair.
Hospital forced to close sterile unit after leak
A trust has been forced to close its sterile drugs production unit due to “increasing infrastructure weakness”, risking a £3m annual bill for purchasing the medicines.
40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent
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.
EPR causing errors and delays two years after go-live
A trust is experiencing severe problems with its electronic patient record system two years after it was installed, HSJ research has revealed.
2,500 missing waiters push back ICS’s elective target
Two acute trusts in the same integrated care system have discovered nearly 2,500 “missing” elective waiters, meaning it has abandoned a local target for reducing 65-week waiters.
NHS backlogs drive £20m boost for private cancer firm
A private cancer provider has grown its turnover by £20m – more than 20 per cent – in the past year on the back of the NHS cancer backlog, it reports.