Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

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Experienced leader chosen to replace 40-year CEO

2024-10-07T09:00:00+01:00

A trust chief executive with more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare has been chosen to replace one of the longest-serving leaders the NHS has seen.

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ICB sanctioned for failing to stop trusts’ over-recruitment

2024-08-12T11:40:00+01:00

NHS England has issued enforcement notices to an integrated care board and four of its trusts, warning that the additional staff they have recruited are “not financially affordable”.

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Interim CEO named after failure to replace 40-year trust boss

2024-03-22T12:48:00+00:00

An interim CEO has been appointed to take the helm of two Black Country trusts while they re-run a recruitment process.

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Trust group names nursing director as CEO

2024-03-21T12:17:00+00:00

An East Midlands trust group has appointed a director of nursing as its first substantive CEO.

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Trusts fail to appoint group CEO

2024-01-26T13:06:00+00:00

Two acute trusts in the Midlands have failed to fill their group CEO role despite 12 applicants being considered for the position, HSJ has learned.

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Five trust CEOs were paid more than £300,000 last year

2024-01-18T12:33:00+00:00

Several trust chief executives were paid more than £300,000 in 2022-23, including adjustments for previous underpayments, pay in lieu of pension contributions, and redundancy packages.

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40-year CEO chooses not to ‘keep going forever’

2023-10-12T13:59:00+01:00

A group CEO who is one of the longest-serving leaders in the NHS is retiring after four decades as a chief executive.

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Former NHSE chief named chair of two more trusts

2023-03-14T17:26:00+00:00

A former NHS chief executive is taking the helm at two more acute trusts in the West Midlands, it has been announced.

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Chair retires after contentious trust takeover

2023-02-13T18:12:00+00:00

The joint chair of two Midlands hospitals is stepping down after a four-year term.

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Revealed: First trust CEO to receive £300,000 base salary

2023-02-03T05:23:00+00:00

Many of the highest paid trust chiefs now have two executive roles, including the first permanent NHS CEO to be paid a base salary of more than £300,000 a year, HSJ analysis reveals.

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‘Money became king’ under special measures regime, trust leaders claim

2022-11-15T12:37:00+00:00

An acute trust was forced to try to balance its books, while operating with too few staff and being unable to reassure itself on quality due to a ‘non-existent’ governance system, its current leaders have claimed – as they warned that when organisations are put under financial pressure ‘quality suffers’.

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Revealed: Trusts with the biggest falls in staff confidence in care provided

2022-04-11T12:09:00+01:00

Several large teaching hospitals are among those which saw the steepest declines in the proportion of staff who would recommend the care of their organisation, according to the NHS staff survey results.

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Trust chief appointed permanent ‘group CEO’ despite ‘poor behaviour’ finding

2022-04-07T06:00:00+01:00

A trust chief executive who behaved “poorly and inappropriately” in his role as interim CEO of another acute provider has been appointed permanent boss of both organisations.

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HSJ podcast: Two trusts, NHS England and the whistleblowers

2022-02-04T06:00:00+00:00

Two very different trusts are under the spotlight after concerns were raised by whistleblowers about poor culture and behaviour.

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Trust CEO ‘behaved poorly’ and chair was ‘complicit’, NHS England review concludes

2022-02-02T06:12:00+00:00

A trust chair found by an NHS England review to have been complicit with poor and inappropriate behaviour has said he is now “really proud” of the organisation, in contrast to reports that he had been “ashamed to call himself chair” last year.

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Trust appoints permanent CEO after year of interim leadership

2021-09-10T11:42:00+01:00

An acute trust in the Midlands has made its interim chief executive a permanent appointment.

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: IT & Digital Innovation Award

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

OneLondon is transforming the capital’s health and care services through the joining up of information to support faster, safer, more effective care for Londoners. The implementation of a shared care record for London gives clinicians a mechanism to see a joined-up picture of a person’s health and care information, available ...

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: People and Organisational Development Initiative of the Year

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

The BHRUT Academy of Surgery is an innovative training pathway to attract non-training doctors wishing to pursue a surgical career. The surgical directorate offers a two-year structured educational programme with an associated fully funded MSc in our “Academy of Surgery”. This was designed to recruit, train and retain junior doctors ...

More than a dozen trust chairs receive two salaries as shared leadership spreads

2021-08-20T04:00:00+01:00

Sixteen people are now chairing more than one NHS trust, but there is significant variation in how much they are paid for their extra roles, an HSJ analysis has found.

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Exclusive: NHSE reviews allegations of poor ‘behaviour’ by trust chair and CEO

2021-07-23T03:00:00+01:00

NHS England has commissioned a senior ex-regulator to review whistleblowers’ allegations about the ‘behaviour’ of the chair and interim chief executive of a Midlands trust, HSJ has learned.