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News£460m patient transport deal collapses again
Plans for the supply of non-emergency patient transport services across the North West lie in ruins for the second time within 20 months after two of its three regional lots were abandoned.
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NewsICB’s £600m spend lacks ‘detailed analysis’
An ICB team responsible for an annual spend of nearly £600m is signing off “high cost” care packages without “detailed analysis” while also undergoing a review into its working culture, the commissioner has revealed.
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NewsTrust faces decade-long review after hundreds of harm cases discovered
More than 300 cases of patient harm have been identified at a North East trust reviewing major care and governance failings in its breast cancer service.
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NewsJudge to examine trust’s care failings
Government has named a chair for its public inquiry into care and governance failings at a mental health trust – nine months after the probe was promised.
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NewsRecognise negative impact mutual aid can have on performance, pleads trust CEO
The chief executive of a trust that has fallen 34 places in NHS England’s provider performance league table has complained that the ranking fails to take into account its efforts to help neighbours.
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NewsPM should remember ‘the North isn’t just Manchester’, says trust CEO
Andy Burnham should recognise that areas in the North of England other than Greater Manchester require more investment, the chief executive of a Tyneside trust has told HSJ.
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NewsPioneer CEO: ‘IHOs won’t fix all ills’
The CEO of a leading trust that is set to begin a “phased” launch of an integrated health organisation has warned the model should not be expected to “fix the ills of everything”.
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News‘Serious failure of governance’ at ‘coach crash’ GP practice
The last remaining partner at a collapsing GP practice has admitted a “serious failure of governance” and likened its problems to a “coach crash”.
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NewsICB boss to lead regional team
An NHS England regional director is to step down after just over a year in the role, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust confirms doctor as CEO
An acute trust has made its interim chief executive permanent, in the latest of a string of senior appointments in the North East.
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NewsSix ICBs chosen to lead specialised commissioning
Just one of the seven NHS England regions has yet to decide which organisation will host the patch’s joint commissioning of specialised and some other services.
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NewsICB gives in without a fight over private sector procurement complaint
A private supplier has forced an integrated care board to row back on its decision to award a £25m contract to an NHS trust, in the first case of its kind.
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NewsNo ‘credible path’ to deliver 10% savings target, says CEO
A hospital group has rejected NHS England’s savings target for one of its providers to balance its books next year.
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NewsTrust’s failings will prompt ‘deep reflection’ across system, CEO pledges
Serious failings found within a trust’s breast cancer service will require a period of “deep reflection” across the whole system, an integrated care board chief has said.
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NewsContract awards go ahead as ICBs plead they are running out of staff
Integrated care boards have told a court imminent redundancies meant they needed to be able to award more than £100m in contracts while they still had the staff.
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News‘Systemic’ failings resulted in avoidable cancer harm
A decade-long pattern of “systemic” leadership and governance failures led to avoidable patient harm in a trust’s breast cancer service, a highly critical review has found.
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NewsChief nurse leaving troubled trust for ICB
A chief nurse is leaving a teaching hospital under investigation over maternity failings for an integrated care board role, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMaternity unit suspended 12 times in three months
A maternity service was forced to close one of its units on 12 separate occasions in the space of just three months due to a shortage of midwives.
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NewsChair leaves trust amid cancer probe
A trust under investigation due to failings in its breast cancer service said it was seeking to “strengthen leadership and governance” after its chair departed after less than three years.
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NewsTrust hires ex-national director as CEO
A national director who left NHS England earlier this year is returning to work as a hospital trust CEO.