All North West articles – Page 24
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HSJ LocalHealth system sees covid occupancy double in a week
Hospitals in Lancashire have reported a steep rise in covid patients, with the numbers more than doubling over the last seven days.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Big drop in vaccinations in region hit by new covid surge
The region at the forefront of the current surge of coronavirus has had a dramatic fall in its vaccination rate over the last month.
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HSJ LocalDoyle named NHSE North West chief
NHS England and Improvement are set to appoint a GP and integrated care system leader as their new regional director for the North West.
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NewsRevealed: Most People Board chairs are women or have minority ethnic background
Half of the chairs of the new regional People Boards are from a minority ethnic background and the majority are also female, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: City sees covid patients almost double over weekend
The number of covid patients in Manchester’s hospitals has almost doubled over the weekend, HSJ understands.
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NewsDozens of hospitals hit dangerous bed occupancy levels
Dozens of acute trusts have operated at very high levels of bed occupancy in the past month, as they deal with a surge in non-covid patients with thousands fewer beds than normal.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Provider groups take the lead
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HSJ LocalLarge ICS to hand billions to acute ‘provider collaborative’
The provider collaborative for Greater Manchester is likely to be assigned the bulk of the area’s acute care funding, according to senior leaders in the region.
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HSJ LocalBolton sees slight decline in covid patients
The number of covid inpatients at Royal Bolton Hospital has declined slightly over the weekend.
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HSJ LocalLandmark reconfiguration that promised to save 300 lives a year ‘quietly dropped’
One of the highest profile NHS reconfigurations of the last decade — that pledged to save 300 lives per year — has been “quietly dropped”, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalSerious safety concerns over third major specialty at struggling trust
Serious patient safety concerns have been raised about a third major specialty at a struggling acute trust, with inspectors also flagging wider leadership issues.
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NewsCovid hospital patient numbers stop falling, as admissions increase across England
The number of covid patients in English hospitals has stopped declining, with hospitalisation in the North West beginning to increase and admissions rising across the country.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Why two ICS bosses quit
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NewsExclusive: NHS warned multiple times that imaging shortages may kill
Coroners have warned the NHS nearly a dozen times in recent years that a lack of imaging capacity could lead to more deaths, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS England covid comms control was ‘truly dreadful’, claims health system leader
A leader of Greater Manchester’s health and care system has claimed NHS England’s approach to communications is “truly dreadful” – a claim which has been rejected by the national body’s medical director as “obviously not correct”.
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NewsNorth West covid admissions climb as English hospital deaths near record low
Admissions of covid positive patients to hospitals in the North West are edging up, while continuing to fall in most other parts of England.
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HSJ LocalICS leaders quit, claiming job ‘not what we signed up for’
The relatively newly appointed leaders of a large integrated care system have announced they are stepping down, saying the task has become “significantly different from the one we were appointed to”.
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NewsInterim finance chief’s row with CCG over ‘warm words’ revealed
An interim finance director who was embroiled in a row with his former employer over whether he should be permanently appointed has lost his employment tribunal.
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HSJ LocalHospital chief: ‘If I was a man from Manchester, I’d have been a CEO 10 years ago’
A new provider chief executive says her path to the top job would have been 10 years quicker if she was male and from somewhere more fashionable than Bolton.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: How trusts compared on the NHS staff survey
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