Direct admission pathway helps reduce monthly ambulance handover hours
Entrant: University Hospitals Plymouth Trust
Category: Patient Safety Awards 2026/Urgent and Emergency Care Safety Initiative of the Year
Award: Shortlisted
End-of-life pathway releases 8,160 acute bed days annually
Entrant: University Hospitals Plymouth Trust
Category: Patient Safety Awards 2026/Palliative & End of Life Safety Initiative of the Year
Award: Shortlisted
Fetal monitoring cuts term neonatal admissions by 73 per cent
Entrant: University Hospitals Plymouth TrustCategory: Patient Safety Awards 2026/Maternity, Midwifery and Neonatal Safety Initiative of the YearAward: Shortlisted
ICB issues tougher spending rules for local trusts
Several trusts in the South West are being asked to restrict all non-essential spending due to their “challenging financial position”.
38 trusts move league table segment
Thirty-eight trusts have moved segments in the NHS England league tables for the second quarter of 2025-26, despite very few recording a significant change in their performance score.
‘Collaboration’ explains sharp performance boost, say trusts
The worst performing ambulance trust of the post-covid period has seen substantial improvement over the past 12 months, which it attributes to “collaboration” with local providers and integrated care boards.
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.
Trust accused of ‘highly inappropriate’ physician associates policy
A union has criticised a hospital trust for “jeopardising patient safety” by issuing “highly inappropriate” instructions for resident doctors to approve prescription requests from physician associates.
New CEO for trust under NHSE intervention
A trust which has been grappling with some of the worst emergency care performance in recent years has recruited a new permanent chief executive.
Three trusts to share same EPR
A single electronic patient record is to be shared by three trusts across a system in a deal announced this week.
Trust rapped for ‘irregular’ £116k payment to outgoing CEO
An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the public spending watchdog after it paid its departing chief executive more than £100,000 without prior Treasury sign-off.
Departing CEO given £120,000 back pay
A trust chief executive was given £120,000 in back pay and a total £380,000 in salary payments shortly before leaving the role, it has emerged.
Revealed: The trusts struggling most with delayed discharge ‘interface’ problems
The trusts struggling most on the number of delayed discharges caused by so-called “interface issues” between acute and other care services – mostly negotiations over care packages – are revealed by a new dataset.
Revealed: the trusts with the worst summer A&E handover delays
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.
Interim CEO to stay on after ‘driving improvements’ at challenged trust
The interim chief executive of one of England’s most challenged trusts has agreed to stay on for at least a year longer than originally planned.
Former chief constable named chair of trust
A former chief constable has been appointed to chair an ambulance trust which has seen huge response time delays in recent years.
Lack of supplier ‘competition’ driving up costs of ‘new hospitals’
Supply chain problems have hampered two of the earliest projects being pursued under the New Hospital Programme, HSJ has discovered.
Whole health system’s IT goes down
An ICS is dealing with a “catastrophic” IT failure that is believed to have affected all health providers in the region.
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