All News articles – Page 15
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NewsNHSE commends ICBs for ‘strong leadership’
The quality of leadership at 13 integrated care boards has been praised by NHS England in its latest formal assessment of their performance.
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NewsFailing trust executives are not given new jobs to avoid disputes, claims Powis
NHS England does not seek to move failing executives into new jobs to avoid employment disputes, its medical director has told a public inquiry.
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NewsSurgeon and lawyer chosen to chair divorcing trusts
New chairs have been announced for two large trusts which are dissolving their group structure.
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NewsHospital CEO appointed ICB boss
A hospital chief executive has been appointed to lead an integrated care board in a neighbouring system.
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NewsExclusive: Death risk doubles for long A&E waits
Patients who spent more than 12 hours in A&E were twice as likely to die within 30 days as those treated, transferred or discharged within two hours, a landmark study shared with HSJ reveals.
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NewsCleaning firm sues trust over £8m contract
A facilities management company is suing an ambulance trust over the procurement of a £8m contract for cleaning services.
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NewsCQC report on ‘fire risk’ A&E delayed by 13 months
A trust has been waiting more than a year for a Care Quality Commission report into its emergency department where inspectors found fire safety risks.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers spent £500k dismantling then rebuilding their offices
Two successive health and social care secretaries spent nearly £500,000 dismantling and then rebuilding ministerial offices in their department, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: 14 ICBs cutting spend on the third sector
Nearly half of all integrated care boards are due to cut their spending on voluntary, community and social enterprise services this financial year, HSJ analysis suggests.
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News500 CQC reports ‘stuck in IT system’
Around 500 draft inspection reports are “stuck” in the Care Quality Commission’s IT system and cannot currently be retrieved, its leaders admitted today.
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News£33m cost of cyber attack revealed
A cyber attack on a pathology firm part-owned by the NHS — which left hospital systems crippled for months — cost the provider £32.7m, accounts reveal.
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NewsElective recovery fund capped for rest of year
The amount of extra waiting list funding trusts can earn is to be capped in the remaining months of the financial year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Elective recovery scheme ‘wide open to gaming’
Plans to pay trusts to validate and sometimes remove patients from their waiting lists could be “wide open to gaming” and create a public perception problem, senior NHS figures have told HSJ.
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NewsReforms to fix Band 8 pay gap at risk, ministers warned
Unions are warning the government it risks derailing “comprehensive” reforms to fix the Agenda for Change pay band structure, including the lack of an incentive to promotion to Band 8a.
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NewsManagers should ‘embrace’ regulation, says Letby trust CEO
NHS managers should “welcome and embrace” the introduction of professional regulation in the wake of the Lucy Letby scandal, according to the current CEO of the trust where her murders took place.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital asks patients in corridors to ‘lobby MPs’ for funding
A hospital’s leadership have put up posters in its corridors asking patients to lobby local MPs – who include Wes Streeting – for funding to expand its under-pressure A&E.
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NewsHackers ‘compromised details’ of hundreds of staff
Hackers are claiming to have stolen – and are offering for sale – personal details of around 200 foreign nationals working in the UK healthcare sector from the Home Office.
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NewsRevealed: War of words among leaders at £1.6bn trust
Medical managers at University Hospitals Birmingham have accused some colleagues of misrepresenting doctors’ views and creating “negativity” which is “detrimental to the reputation of our organisation”, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust chair leaves after less than a year in post
An ambulance trust chair is leaving after just 10 months to take up an as-yet-unspecified executive role elsewhere in the NHS.
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NewsNHSE appoints ex-Tory adviser as strategy director
NHS England has hired a former adviser to Jeremy Hunt and Sir Sajid Javid as its strategy director.