News – Page 43
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NewsCQC chief admits ‘we’ve lost your trust’ and announces more inspections
The Care Quality Commission’s new chief executive has admitted the regulator “got things wrong” during the rollout of its new inspection regime and announced an increase in the number of assessments it carries out.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsCEO of deaths inquiry trust says ‘too much secrecy’ in past
The CEO of a trust subject to an inquiry into mental health deaths has claimed the organisation has “moved forward” from a defensive and secretive culture to being more open with patients and their families.
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NewsNew chief for trust seeking hospital rebuild
A new chief executive has been announced for a trust with major plans to rebuild a hospital in the East of England.
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NewsICS leader tells Streeting ‘use us to test radical reforms’
Former Labour health and social care secretary Patricia Hewitt has urged the new government to select a group of integrated care systems as “testbeds” for radically different ways of funding and delivering health and social care.
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News‘Likely’ supplier for ‘first of its kind’ EPR revealed
An integrated care board has named Oracle Health as the “likely” supplier of an electronic patient record that will be the first to be used across acute, mental and health services.
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HSJ LocalICBs locked in dispute over emergency care funding
An integrated care board has accused a neighbouring ICB of demanding too much money for services provided to patients accessing care outside its boundaries.
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NewsThreefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed
Patients trying to reach their GP are almost three times as likely to fail to get through in the worst-performing integrated care systems than the best, according to analysis of new annual figures.
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NewsLongest-serving acute trust CEO steps down
The NHS’s longest-serving general acute trust chief executive has announced she is stepping down after more than 20 years.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts with the longest discharge delays
Patients are waiting over two weeks in hospital after their “ready for discharge” date at some trusts – more than double the average delay, according to new NHS England data.
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NewsLong waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target
The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.
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NewsStreeting orders ‘independent investigation’ into NHS performance
The government has commissioned former minister, surgeon and academic Lord Ara Darzi to carry out an independent review of NHS performance.
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HSJ LocalFormer Blair aide to chair teaching trust
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Labour peer and former top Number 10 adviser Baroness Sally Morgan as its next chair.
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NewsRCN names general secretary and CEO
The Royal College of Nursing has appointed Professor Nicola Ranger as its general secretary and chief executive.
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NewsTwo experts join DHSC to lead 10-year reform plan
Two health policy experts are joining government to help draw up a 10-year plan for health.
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NewsTrust to take on 2,500 long-waiters after buying private hospital
A trust that recently bought a small private hospital is to take on 2,500 long-waiters from across its integrated care system.
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NewsFormer minister joins Streeting’s team
Two new health and social care ministers, who previously held roles in the shadow team, have been announced by the new government.
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NewsAmbulance handover delays still harming tens of thousands each month
Tens of thousands of patients are still suffering harm from delays in ambulance handovers to emergency departments, despite a concerted effort to tackle the problem, figures seen by HSJ indicate.
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HSJ LocalTransfusion never events just ‘tip of iceberg’ at troubled trust
Fourteen never events recorded at University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust’s transfusion service were the “tip of an iceberg”, an external review has concluded.
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HSJ LocalTroubled ICS diverting 400 electives each week under new model
One of England’s most challenged systems is diverting around 400 patients a week, mostly long waiters, away from its largest trust towards private hospitals and neighbouring NHS providers, after setting up a new “coordination centre”.