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‘Oldest NHS IT system’ to be replaced
An acute/community trust is set to implement a “game-changing” electronic patient record which will replace one of the oldest IT systems in the NHS, according to its chief executive.
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Top team overhauled at trust with ‘inadequate’ leadership rating
Half of the executive directors at an ambulance trust are absent from work or due to leave as it contemplates a major shake-up of its governance.
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NHSE not recruiting to 900 vacancies despite staff ‘frustration’
NHS England will “hold back” nearly 900 posts in its new structure, despite many staff currently being at risk of redundancy and looking to apply for the roles, it says in a note leaked to HSJ.
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ICB pauses work on new stroke unit after ‘assurance’ concerns
A decade-long bid to establish a hyper-acute stroke unit has been delayed further after commissioners raised “assurance” concerns.
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Newly installed EPR contributed to A&E death, warns coroner
A newly installed electronic patient record contributed to the “preventable” death of a 31-year-old woman in an emergency department, a trust has been warned.
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Revealed: The ICBs most reliant on private hospitals
Up to 20 per cent of NHS elective patients are now being treated by private hospitals in some areas, analysis by HSJ suggests.
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Council scheme could cost trust £1.7m a year
A council’s controversial car parking levy is likely to cost an acute trust £1.65m each year for providing spaces, it has calculated.
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Trust loses ‘outstanding’ rating
An ambulance trust rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission since 2019 has lost the top-tier rating.
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Outside CEOs bring ‘positive challenge’ to sector, says review author
The senior leader who carried out a cultural review of the ambulance sector has said bringing in chief executives from outside has “shone a different light” on the service, although she stressed it was not a “silver bullet”.
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‘Third of NHS contacts will be digital’, says national director
One in three patient interactions with the NHS should be digital – through the NHS app, website or other channels – within five years, according to the hospital CEO charged with leading the expansion nationally.
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‘New hospitals’ team eases back on assumed rise in bed occupancy
The team running the government’s New Hospitals Programme has reduced its working assumptions of bed occupancy levels to 92 per cent.
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Revealed: The systems with a third of dental budget unspent
Nearly a third of local dental budgets are going unspent in some areas of the country, according to data obtained by HSJ.
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Ex-minister and ‘Compare the Market’ chief join NHSE board
A former Conservative minister, GP leader, business chief, and an eminent healthcare scientist are joining the NHS England board, nearly a year after the non-executive director posts were advertised.
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Mental health workforce now bigger but ‘less experienced’
The mental health workforce has become less experienced, while roles have expanded unevenly across the sector, research has revealed.
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Hospital had wrong CQC rating for four years
A general hospital was wrongly denied an “outstanding” rating for four years due to a calculation error, the Care Quality Commission has admitted.
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Trust concludes former chief ‘not fit and proper’ after sexual harassment investigation
An NHS trust has concluded that its former chief executive is not a “fit and proper person” to be on an NHS board, after investigating allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour, HSJ has learned.
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Trust CEOs accuse police of ‘high stakes game of chicken’
Ambulance chiefs have warned that patients are coming to harm, paramedics are being assaulted and control room staff reporting a “high stakes game of chicken” with police during the implementation of a controversial new national care model.
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NHSE to overhaul mental health leadership
NHS England is recruiting its first ever medical director for mental health and neurodiversity, while its national clinical director for mental health has left.
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Manager and doctor ‘camaraderie’ eroded by strikes, ICBs warn
“Camaraderie” between NHS managers and senior doctors has been eroded during the past year of medical strikes, a review by several integrated care boards has warned.
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ICS picks permanent CEO
An integrated care system has appointed a substantive chief executive after her predecessor joined NHS England.