All articles by Matt Discombe – Page 4
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Mackey: regulation of NHS managers ‘is coming’
A national NHS leader has said regulation of managers ‘is coming’, and the service should ‘just go with it and make it as effective’ as possible.
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Staff feel ‘frozen out and ignored’ at ‘inadequate’ services
Leaders of two maternity services have been told to take urgent action, after inspectors found understaffing and declining levels of care, despite safety warnings from midwives.
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A&E handover delays ‘still getting worse at some hospitals’
Ambulance chiefs say handover delays have got worse at some trusts in recent months, despite the picture improving nationally since last winter.
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Trust heavily criticised by coroner for delays to death investigations
A coroner has strongly criticised a mental health trust for failing to investigate serious incidents promptly.
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Trust needs £20m to deliver asks from Manchester bomb inquiry
Ambulance trusts are lobbying for tens of millions in additional funding to meet key targets set by the Manchester Arena bombing inquiry.
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Former policeman to chair ‘outstanding’ trust
A former police officer has been announced as the new chair of a major mental health trust.
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Too much emphasis placed on CEO ‘success or failure’ says new chief
A chief executive of a major acute trust has said much of the ‘emphasis’ placed on CEOs represents an ‘outdated model of leadership’.
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Ministers name 30 trusts receiving share of £250m fund
Ministers have named the 30 trusts which will receive a share of a £250m fund to increase urgent and emergency care capacity.
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‘We had too few managers’ says chief who is improving ‘worst A&E’
The chief of the trust which has consistently propped up England’s four-hour table has told HSJ about the importance of having enough managers, after the provider moved out of the bottom 10 performers on the target.
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NHSE rows with royal college over ‘unhelpful’ virtual ward targets
NHS England’s virtual wards target is leading to some lower risk patients being ‘over-monitored’ in pursuit of a headline ambition ahead of winter, a leading royal college has told HSJ.
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Major trust chief executive to step down
The chief executive of a major acute trust, who has held leadership positions in the NHS for almost two decades, has announced her resignation.
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Trusts must hit new A&E target to access capital fund
Trusts ‘over-delivering’ on two emergency care targets this winter will be awarded a share of a new £150m capital fund, NHS England has announced.
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‘Local innovation’ can improve A&E without central funding, says NHSE
An NHS England director has said innovations in urgent and emergency care should be possible without extra central funding, as she set out plans to manage the coming winter.
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CQC names worst trusts for experience in A&E
The Care Quality Commission has named the trusts which have performed ‘worse than expected’ on patient experience in urgent and emergency care.
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Courage not targets needed to push ‘reticent’ NHS bosses to tackle racism
NHS leaders are still “reticent” to act decisively over racism and diversity problems and it will take courage rather than targets to tackle this challenge, a trust boss has warned.
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Modernisation Agency chief returns to lead improvement drive
The director of the Modernisation Agency in the early 2000s is returning to lead a new national service improvement drive, NHS England has announced, while asking systems and providers to “baseline” their improvement needs and capability.
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‘Culture battle’ over NHS England’s emergency recovery plans
Senior sources have described a ”culture battle” in NHS England’s approach to urgent care recovery after systems were told to carry out ”maturity” self-assessments and appoint “champions” to drive improvements.
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Trust withheld key details of deaths, review finds
An ambulance service has pledged to overhaul how it makes disclosures to coroners after a review found that details of care failings were withheld in a number of cases.
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Pritchard vows action to increase trust CEO tenure
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said there had been higher turnover of trust chief executives during the ‘extremely hard’ recovery from the pandemic, and that actions were being taken to try to increase CEO tenure.
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Acute trust plans sixfold expansion of domiciliary care service
A leading acute trust which made the pioneering move of becoming a direct provider of social care last year is planning a major expansion of its services.