News – Page 80
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NewsEx-trust chief to lead ICS on interim basis
A retired trust boss has been announced as interim chief executive for Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board.
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NewsICBs face £5.5m cost for CQC assessments
The Care Quality Commission is planning to charge integrated care boards up to £290,000 each annually to fund system inspections, it has revealed in consultation documents.
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HSJ LocalSingle ‘group’ team will run seven hospitals
Two major trusts have announced they will move to a single executive team and board over the next 18 months, across the seven hospitals they operate.
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NewsProjects excluded from ‘40 new hospitals’ programme had ‘political issues’
Internal government documents show some of the building schemes that failed to make the final list of ‘40 new hospitals’ were flagged as having potentially serious ‘political issues’, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsJoint CEO for trusts with £2bn turnover
A joint chief executive has been appointed across three acute trusts in the East Midlands in the next stage of their “formal collaboration”.
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NewsTrusts may no longer be fined for missing quality standards
Trusts may be spared financial penalties if they fail to meet care quality standards under new proposals from NHS England.
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NewsNational director admits ‘misconduct’ in prior trust CEO role
A director at a national agency has been removed from the paramedic register after admitting to misconduct in a previous role as chief executive of an ambulance trust.
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NewsRevealed: The areas where access to patient records are still not being offered
Less than half of GP practices are offering patients the chance to look at their records in many areas of England, just days before the deadline for automatic access.
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NewsManager called colleague a ‘megabitch’ in alleged ‘campaign of bullying’, review finds
An external review has found that two managers at a mental health trust should answer allegations they bullied and victimised a colleague.
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NewsICB chiefs urged to join campaign to build confidence in £480m data platform
The growing campaign to build support for NHS England’s controversial Federated Data Platform ahead of the announcement of which supplier has secured the £480m operating contract is attempting to win the support of integrated care board chief executives, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Performance of vital demand management service collapses
The performance of one of the NHS’s flagship strategies to reduce demand on over-stretched hospitals has collapsed, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsThird of largest trusts do not know their carbon footprint
More than a third of the largest NHS trusts are still unable to state the size of their full carbon footprint, despite it being three years since the national plan for ‘net zero’ was established.
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NewsLack of ownership within NHSE for struggling service is ‘complete failure of leadership’
No senior NHS England director is prepared to take responsibility for ADHD services – which are facing waits of up to a decade and severe medication shortages – HSJ has discovered.
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NewsRevealed: Four trusts report quarter of all ‘critical incidents’
More than a quarter of ‘critical incidents’ have been declared by just four trusts since the start of the crisis in urgent and emergency care.
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HSJ Local‘Incapable managers’ and ‘socialist NHS’ to blame for delay to £300m project, claims MP
A Conservative MP has attacked the management of his local trust and NHS bureaucracy for failing to deliver improvements to two hospitals in his constituency, despite the government allocating the schemes over £300m six years ago.
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HSJ LocalTrust names US firm as preferred bidder for new EPR
An East Anglian trust has reportedly chosen American company Epic as its new electronic patient record provider.
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NewsConfirm there is no plan to ‘replace doctors’, NHSE told
The medical regulator has told NHS England to ‘directly tackle’ a perception there is a plan to replace doctors with physician associates amid an ‘intense’ debate about their future.
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NewsNHS backlogs push cancer firm past £100m revenue
NHS cancer backlogs drove an increase in patients going private, an Australian-owned provider has revealed as it announced continued revenue growth.
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NewsMajor incident unit faces possible closure
The future of a specialist ambulance unit responsible for responding to major incidents such as terrorist attacks is in question following ongoing delay in putting its new contract out to tender.
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NewsWhistleblower raises alarm over ‘inadequate’ investigation into 60 suicides
A trust pressured into commissioning an external review of dozens of suicides faces fresh criticism and questions about the probe’s credibility after it emerged the investigation will not investigate each case but instead look to ‘identify themes’.