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£200k fine ‘reminds trusts to provide safe care’
A trust has been told to pay more than £200k for care failings related to two patients’ deaths.
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NHSE director lined up for trust with worst A&E problems
An NHS England director is set to be appointed to the board of a trust with some of the worst A&E problems in recent years, including the most hours lost to ambulance handover delays last year.
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ICS £230m in the red hails ‘positive’ financial performance
Leaders in Lancashire and South Cumbria searched for positives as they were told the integrated care system would miss its financial plan by £150m.
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New executive joins national agency to lead ongoing reforms
NHS Supply Chain has appointed a new chief commercial executive director to lead ongoing reforms to the agency as well as delivery of day-to-day commercial operations.
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Trusts and NHSE ‘neglecting whistleblower training’
Trusts and NHS England are failing to prioritise training for senior leaders on listening to whistleblowers — despite repeated findings of serious concerns going unheard — the National Guardian’s Office has said.
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DHSC director joins tech firm
Former senior Downing Street official and NHS leader Samantha Jones is to join a digital care firm’s advisory board.
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NHSE intervenes over ‘fear and bullying’ in surgery department
Nearly a dozen junior doctors have been relocated from a London hospital’s general surgery department by NHS England, after concerns about a culture of fear, poor support, and reports of bullying.
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Influential CEO retires after tripling size of trust
One of the longest-serving chief executives has announced his retirement following a 12-year stint in which his trust has tripled in size.
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Ex-CQC boss to lead £85m deficit trust
A former Care Quality Commission chief executive is to take over as chair of a high-profile trust with long-running financial problems.
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Seven more avoidable sepsis deaths spark coroner warnings
Preventable deaths of seven people from sepsis – including four children – have prompted coroners to flag major concerns about NHS services’ management of the condition.
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‘Disgraceful’ regulator’s 10-year case delay
A regulator overseeing 340,000 professionals breached a psychologist’s human rights by letting their fitness-to-practise case go on for a decade, amid widespread very long delays, it has emerged.
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Redundancy scheme to cut corporate staff by 14%
Multiple hospitals are launching redundancy schemes or plans to freeze recruitment for corporate and non-clinical staff, in a bid to meet their financial expectations in 2024–25.
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Dame Ruth May announces retirement
Dame Ruth May is retiring as chief nursing officer for England later this year, it has been announced.
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New Hospital Programme admits 50% vacancy rate amid recruitment problems
The New Hospital Programme team has faced issues recruiting to internal roles and recently had a 50 per cent vacancy rate, the government has admitted.
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Regulators battling 'overlapping remits and confusion'
A watchdog today called for simplification of health and social care regulation, saying “it’s really quite challenging to get the health and social care regulators into one room” because there are so many.
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ICSs too focused on patients stuck in A&E, warns CEO
Integrated care systems are too focused on getting mental health patients out of A&E and should do more to improve support from non-mental health providers, a departing trust chief executive has warned.
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NHSE U-turns over axing staff mental health support
NHS England has extended a national mental health support service for NHS staff by 12 months, pending a review, just three days after announcing it was axing it.
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Abusive patients told ‘we have the right not to treat you’
A trust’s CEO has warned patients they could be refused treatment and asked to leave if they become abusive towards hospital staff.
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Revealed: 90% increase in year-long waits for children
The number of people waiting more than a year for community services has risen sharply, with children the hardest hit, data reveals.
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NHSE hires consultants to ‘promote adoption’ of FDP
NHS England has awarded an £8.5m contract to consultancy firm KPMG to “promote the adoption” of the “federated data platform” by trusts and integrated care boards.