Increase in corridor care ‘haemorrhaging morale’, trust told
Governors at one of the largest trusts in the country have warned that moving patients from beds to chairs to free up space is a risk to staff and public morale.
New health minister appointed
Britain’s first female Sikh MP has been appointed as a health minister.
Two trusts reprimanded for FOI failings
Two trusts face potential legal enforcement action over failing to respond to Freedom of Information requests on time.
Trust bosses clash over ‘car park care’
Ambulance service leaders have clashed with a large hospital trust for putting “pressure” on its crews to deliver “car park care” while patients wait to be admitted.
Two trusts scrap faxes following Streeting pressure
All trusts in England except one will stop using fax machines this month, HSJ has learned.
HSJ Podcast: Wes’ waiting list wobble
On this episode, we’re talking about the tricky balancing act between cutting waiting lists and keeping finances under control, after Wes Streeting warned this week that some trusts have tried to cut deficits too sharply.
Major flaws discovered in trust training programme
An external review has uncovered multiple problems with fairness, finance and governance in a major trust’s scheme for taking on hundreds of overseas medical trainees.
Region seeks firm to replace ‘ageing critical infrastructure’
Six trusts in the West Midlands are letting a £290m contract to build and run a regional sterile drugs production unit, to replace current outdated facilities.
Unit’s bullying culture ‘allowed to persist and fester’
A culture of bullying and harassment has been allowed to “persist and fester” at a major hospital maternity department, showing two years’ improvement work had “failed”, a coroner has said.
Comparing trusts on new productivity metric is misleading, experts warn
Recent productivity improvements will be hard to sustain in future years, experts have warned, as they said newly published NHS England data fails to show which trusts are the most productive.
13 trusts trial procurement process designed to ‘save billions’
Thirteen trusts are piloting a procurement system that places less emphasis on price.
‘Serious concern’ over trust’s ‘financial control’ sparks NHSE intervention
One of England’s largest hospital trusts has been issued with enforcement undertakings after “failing to demonstrate effective control over expenditure”.
Leadership improves at ‘toxic’ trust
One of England’s largest trusts previously criticised for its “toxic” environment has made significant improvements to its culture, inspectors have said.
The 17 trusts missing NHSE’s new A&E handover target
More than a dozen trusts have not been meeting a new “maximum” NHS England standard through the spring and summer, HSJ can reveal.
NHSE admits service not on course to hit 2025-26 waiting list targets
NHS England’s elective chief has admitted the service is not on course to hit the main 2025-26 elective care targets and has “more to do” to bring performance “back in line”.
Named: The three trusts failing in every aspect of care
NHS England has named the three trusts that it believes are in need of national intervention on all four major clinical performance areas.
Trusts penalised for exaggerating safety standards
Dozens of trusts have been hit with financial penalties after regulators questioned their claims to be compliant with maternity safety standards.
Planning, teamwork and understaffing criticised at troubled unit
A regional haematology unit with a history of quality problems has admitted new failures in planning transplants and teamworking, amid concerns about short staffing.
Major provider joins NHSE’s most challenged group
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has joined four other trusts in NHS England’s most challenged category for all three of elective, diagnostic and cancer performance.