All News articles – Page 115
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NewsNHSE names new emergency care chief and deputy COO
NHS England has hired a hospital chief executive as its new national director of urgent and emergency care and deputy chief operating officer.
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NewsBarclay: DHSC and NHSE must ‘work closely’ to tackle worst performers
Steve Barclay will today ’emphasise the importance of close working between the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England’ in trying to tackle waiting times in areas which are lagging.
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NewsNHSE director ‘shocked’ by lack of weekend working
The national director for mental health has said she was shocked to discover how many ward managers do not work at weekends, adding this could contribute to abuse and poor care going undetected.
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NewsWebinar: How the government will tackle the crisis in the NHS
In this specially recorded webinar for HSJ Insight subscribers, HSJ editor Alastair McLellan talks to two seasoned observers about the relationship between the NHS and government.
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News‘Money became king’ under special measures regime, trust leaders claim
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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NewsDischarge reform could save NHS £7bn, claims DHSC
A policy change to speed up hospital discharge could save the NHS more than £7bn over a decade, according to a government evaluation — but ministers have not funded it.
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NewsTrust bosses fear fallout of co-ordinated strikes
Trust leaders have raised concerns about other major unions striking on the same dates as the Royal College of Nursing in co-ordinated action, which would make avoiding disruption and harm ‘more hairy’.
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NewsNational director who warned of NHSE job cuts ‘fixation’ announces departure
The interim chief executive of NHS Digital will not remain part of NHS England after the organisations merge in January, he has announced today.
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NewsReturn to PbR would be ‘retrograde step’, warns NHS Providers
Moving trusts back onto a traditional payment by results financial framework would ‘feel like a retrograde step’ and cut across the new integrated care system agenda, the NHS Providers’ interim chief has warned.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsEx-civil servant appointed trust CEO
Gloucestershire Health and Care Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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NewsRevealed: ‘Tired’ NHS England staff will not know their fate until September
The reorganisation and rationalisation of NHS England will take place in three waves between February and June, HSJ has learned, with the organisation’s new structure not being confirmed until next autumn.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England launches new crackdown on trust spending
NHS England has set out a raft of new conditions that over-spending trusts must follow, including sign-off from their integrated care board for all revenue investments over £50,000.
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NewsService disruption may have increased suicides among new mothers
A new report has highlighted for the first time an apparent rise in the suicide rate for pregnant or newly postpartum women in 2020, citing disruption to NHS services due to covid-19 as a likely cause.
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NewsRevealed: half of ICSs lack plan against ‘constantly evolving’ cyber attacks
At least half of integrated care systems lack plans for responding to cyber attacks, at a time of increasing cyber risks, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLongest diagnostic waits at highest level since covid lockdown
The share of referrals waiting more than three months for a diagnostic test – one of the key problems behind long waits for cancer treatment – is worse than at any point since February 2021, during the second national covid lockdown.
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NewsBiggest ever monthly rise in 12-hour trolley waits, stats show
Long waits in emergency departments rose by their highest monthly margin in October as performance continued to deteriorate across emergency services and planned care.
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NewsFemale CEOs say ambulance service culture ‘deeply wrong’
The only two female ambulance chief executives in the country have said there is something ‘deeply wrong’ with the culture in ambulance services.
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NewsSouth West and specialist trusts saw biggest strike vote
Nursing strike action is planned at nearly all trusts in the South West this winter – compared to less than a third in London, following Royal College of Nursing ballot results, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsNurses at half of NHS organisations vote for strike
Nursing staff at around half of NHS organisations have voted in favour of strike action over pay and safety concerns, the Royal College of Nursing has said.