News – Page 209
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NewsTrust’s board and governors clash over potential merger
The governors and board of one of England’s smallest trusts are at loggerheads over a possible merger with a megatrust neighbour.
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NewsDaily Insight: Covid can’t peak too soon
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ LocalCEO quits trust accused of ‘witch hunt’
The chief executive at Matt Hancock’s local troubled trust, where leaders have been accused of bullying staff during a ‘witch hunt’ for a whistleblower, is to leave the post, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsUpdated: England’s 1,900 covid vaccination sites
HSJ has mapped the more than 1,900 locations across England which are delivering the covid vaccination, according to NHS England.
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NewsNew chief exec for national NHS agency
The publicly owned company that oversees £5.4bn in NHS procurement has appointed a new chief executive.
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HSJ LocalCouncils issue ‘confrontational’ list of ‘red lines’ for ICS working
Nine councils have angered NHS leaders by issuing a series of ‘red lines’ and pre-conditions which they say must be met for an integrated care system to be successful.
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NewsDismay at failure to align ICS footprints with council boundaries
There has been an outcry from some local government figures in areas where the health secretary Sajid Javid has decided not to go ahead with making integrated care partnership footprints coterminous with upper tier authority boundaries.
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NewsDaily Insight: Music stops with four trusts on one chair
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsUnder-pressure trust to stop sending ambulances to hundreds of patients
An ambulance trust will stop sending crews to hundreds of calls a day and instead divert patients to other services.
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NewsExclusive: Eight trusts now have one in 10 beds filled by covid patients
Eight hospital trusts have hit the point where one in 10 of their beds is occupied by a patient with coronavirus, figures seen by HSJ reveal, and several more are approaching it.
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HSJ LocalICS gets fourth leadership team in five years
The troubled Cheshire and Merseyside health system has appointed a new interim chief officer, while it attempts to recruit permanently to the role.
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NewsTrust complains of ‘very harsh’ exclusion from national costing report
Fourteen trusts have had their financial data excluded from a national survey of spending due to accounting errors, in a process that one described as ‘very harsh’.
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HSJ LocalJoint leader for four trusts with £3bn income
The four acute trusts in north west London will appoint a joint chair, in the latest move towards greater collaboration between the system’s providers.
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NewsThe Primer: Stevens’ last supper
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsDaily Insight: Can he fix it?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrust apologises for ‘unethical’ code of conduct
A mental health trust has apologised for using an “unethical” code of conduct which required patients to “behave in a socially acceptable manner” and “refrain from committing severe acts of self-harming”.
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HSJ LocalUnder-scrutiny trust appoints interim CEO
An acute trust grappling with governance issues has appointed former Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust chief executive Tony Chambers as interim CEO.
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NewsFixing relationship between NHS tech agencies a ‘priority’ says CEO
Working relationships between the major NHS tech organisations ‘could be better’, according to the new interim chief executive of NHS Digital.
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NewsTrust CEO to be given warning by GMC
The chief executive of one of England’s largest hospital trusts will be handed a warning by the General Medical Council for a ‘significant departure from medical practice’, after a hearing on Thursday.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: NHSE reviews allegations of poor ‘behaviour’ by trust chair and CEO
NHS England has commissioned a senior ex-regulator to review whistleblowers’ allegations about the ‘behaviour’ of the chair and interim chief executive of a Midlands trust, HSJ has learned.