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HSJ LocalSerious safety concerns over third major specialty at struggling trust
Serious patient safety concerns have been raised about a third major specialty at a struggling acute trust, with inspectors also flagging wider leadership issues.
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HSJ Local
NHSE sends improvement director into struggling acute trust
Regulators have sent an improvement director into a North West acute trust amid multiple allegations of poor care and ‘cover up’ across different specialties.
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HSJ Local
NHSE overrules trust and orders second review into patient harms
NHS England has ordered an independent review into patient safety and governance concerns at an acute trust which had been resisting calls to take this step, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Patients harmed amid ‘internecine squabbles’ and cover-up claims
Several patients were harmed after acute trust leaders failed to act on multiple concerns being raised about a surgeon, documents obtained by HSJ suggest.
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HSJ Local
Trust director quits for STP role
A trust finance chief in Lancashire has resigned to take up a senior role for a sustainability and transformation partnership.
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HSJ Local
Coastal trust to be ‘twinned’ with high performing US hospital
A hospital trust in the North West is set to be ‘twinned’ with a US hospital as part of a programme it believes will improve staff retention and care quality.
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Expert Briefing
Scent of a scandal
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HSJ Local
ICS ‘could save £88m’ with vast expansion of community care
An external review has recommended a region should more than double its number of intermediate care staff, with a potential saving of £88m.
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HSJ Local
Eight CCGs to merge to make ‘really tricky decisions’
System leaders have drawn up plans to merge eight clinical commissioning groups into one organisation, to take some “really tricky decisions”.
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HSJ Local
Chief executive makes bid to lead second trust
Creating a “chain” model and shared leadership between providers in Lancashire could enable crucial reconfiguration of clinical services to finally move forward, an acute trust chief executive has told HSJ .
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Unpicking the headlines
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: The region’s most important job
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HSJ Local
New CEO pledges to end ‘blame culture’ at troubled trust
The new chief executive of Lancashire’s troubled mental health provider has pledged to tackle a culture in which clinicians feel blamed for errors.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Bill McCarthy's top priorities
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HSJ Local
Health system's culture problem goes from 'board to floor'
A culture which saw health and care leaders in Lancashire “take pleasure” in difficulties experienced by their peers had “a direct impact on front line service delivery” and may have contributed to service users attempting suicide, a review has concluded.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Festering relationships harm patients
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HSJ Local
Controversial staff transfer gets go-ahead
A controversial transfer of NHS staff has been given the green light despite “significant concerns” being raised about the receiving provider, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Saving babies’ lives
In response to numerous cases of unsafe maternity and neonatal care, many initiatives have been introduced but their implementation remains inconsistent due to lack of training and funding, note James Titcombe and Bill Kirkup
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News
CCG allocations revealed: The winners and losers
New funding allocations which favour areas of extreme deprivation will see some clinical commissioning groups receive cash growth of up to 15 per cent next year, with others receiving increases of less than 5 per cent.
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HSJ Local
University site wins again in controversial pathology shake-up
A university site has again been named as the preferred location for a consolidated pathology service for Lancashire following a second evaluation exercise, HSJ has learned.
