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News200 patients failed after hospital missed warning
Hundreds of patients got the wrong or no treatment for a lung condition, a trust investigation has found, five years after concerns were first raised.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Falling through the gaps
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts paying the biggest premiums for safety errors
The trusts paying the highest negligence premiums as a proportion of their income have been revealed, with experts warning the “sheer costs involved in managing accidents that could be avoided” neared £3bn last year.
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NewsTrust proposes to cut its estates team by half
A prestigious teaching hospital is consulting on plans to cut its number of estates and maintenance staff by more than half.
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NewsNursing and medical director failed to act on suicide risks, court told
A trust’s nursing director and associate medical director should have reduced risk on a mental health inpatient ward by ensuring bin liners were removed, a court has heard.
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NewsSeven-hospital ‘group’ to split in two
Two large hospital trusts are scrapping their joint chair and CEO arrangement, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE desire to please govt forcing finance chiefs to agree undeliverable plans
One of the NHS’s foremost finance figures has joined the chorus of senior healthcare leaders raising serious concerns about the damaging effect of the way the service’s annual planning round is conducted.
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NewsFormer minister steps down from trust job
The chair of a leading mental health trust who served as a minister in the coalition government is stepping down.
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NewsRevealed: the ongoing impact of delays to ‘new hospital’ schemes
Infrastructure failings have led to over 1,000 operations being cancelled in the past two years at just 14 trusts, whose rebuilding plans have been placed under review by the new government, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHuge cyber attack caused minimal patient harm, ICB claims
A cyber attack which crippled a region’s pathology system for three months caused only five cases of “moderate” harm and no significant harm, the NHS has claimed.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: It shouldn’t take a CQC inspection
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsICB still waiting for its accounts to be signed off after 19 months
One of England’s biggest integrated care boards is still waiting to have its annual accounts for 2022-23 signed off, 19 months after the end of the financial year.
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NewsAmbulance trusts suffer as calls jump 13% in London
Ambulance trusts are battling an extremely tough October with calls in one region up by 13 per cent year-on-year and others struggling with hospital handovers.
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NewsRegion ‘going into battle’ over funding changes that could cost it £400m
A region’s finance teams are “going into battle” with NHS England over proposed changes to a funding formula that could cost it around 2 per cent of its total budget.
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NewsICB tells trusts to shift ‘core services’ towards new neighbourhood teams
An influential integrated care board has told its providers to work in 25 new neighbourhood teams – which will have about 2,500 staff across its patch – echoing proposals from the new government.
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NewsHospital warned over safety and ‘undermining behaviour’
Regulators are carrying out “enhanced monitoring” of clinical radiology services at a major London hospital, after concerns about safety and “undermining behaviour”.
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NewsNHS estates backlog rises 20% to record high
The cost of eradicating the estates maintenance backlog for NHS trusts rose around 20 per cent to a new record high of nearly £14bn year on year, according to new provisional data.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: An 'incredibly difficult winter'
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsLocal authority leader appointed ICS chair
A former local authority leader has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.
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NewsEmergency performance dips as winter nears
Ambulance response times rose dramatically last month with urgent care performance also worsening as winter appeared to strike early.