News – Page 17
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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.
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NewsTrust hires ICB leader as new CEO
A new chief executive has been appointed to a struggling mental health trust, a year after the Care Quality Commission raised major concerns about its leadership.
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News20% of corporate jobs to go in cost-cutting restructure
An ambulance trust is reducing the number of posts in its corporate directorates by 20 per cent.
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HSJ LocalICB pays consultants £230,000 to help it escape deficit
An integrated care board has hired external consultants in a bid to improve its finances, and support one of its trusts to exit the highest rung of national oversight.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in November 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsReform delayed by Treasury could have stopped Letby, says Hunt
A patient safety reform whose introduction was delayed due to concerns about cost and staffing in the Treasury and NHS could have detected Lucy Letby’s murders earlier, Jeremy Hunt has suggested.
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HSJ LocalTrust ordered to pay £100,000 after sacking doctor with PTSD
A judge has ordered a trust to pay £100,000 to a doctor with PTSD who had been unfairly dismissed.
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NewsAmbulance handover delays hit record high
Long ambulance handover delays hit record levels in the past week as the winter crisis in the NHS reached its height.
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NewsPatient transport service failing on most fronts, data reveals
A company providing patient transport services across an integrated care system has massively underperformed against key indicators, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMinisters ‘breaking promises on contract reform’
Unions have accused the government of letting them down on commitments to reform primary care contracts, six months after Labour won the general election.
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NewsExclusive: Trust orders external review into medical training ‘concerns’
University Hospitals Birmingham has ordered an independent review into its international medical training programme, after concerns the scheme may be routinely underpaying overseas doctors.
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NewsHalf of ICBs sued over £168m waste procurement
Half of England’s integrated care boards are being sued by a waste management firm over the procurement of healthcare waste collection and disposal services for primary care.
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NewsTrusts to foot bill for new ‘customer service’ training
New compulsory customer service training to help non-clinical staff better advise elective patients and “handle difficult conversations with compassion” will be paid for from providers’ existing budgets, HSJ understands.
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NewsTrust rapped for ‘irregular’ £116k payment to outgoing CEO
An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the public spending watchdog after it paid its departing chief executive more than £100,000 without prior Treasury sign-off.
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News‘Distressing’ two-year waits for children’s service quadruple in eight months
Two-year waits for children needing help from community services quietly tripled last year, while such delays for hospital treatment have been virtually eliminated, due to government targets.
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NewsNational tech director to step down
A national tech chief is set to step down in the spring after less than two years in the role.
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NewsTrusts given deadline to roll out new NHS app features
The majority of patients awaiting elective treatment will be able to view and manage their appointment through the NHS app by spring 2026, according to new targets set by the government.
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News£200m consultancy bill for New Hospital Programme revealed
More than £200m has been paid to two consultancies for work on the New Hospital Programme to date, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCEO of NHS’s largest trust to stand down
The NHS trust with the largest annual income has started an “international” search for a new chief executive.