All North West articles – Page 26
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NewsRevealed: Nightingale hospitals to cost half a billion pounds in total
England’s Nightingale hospitals have been forecast to cost more than half a billion, according to the latest government projections.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Glimpsing the peak and surveying the wreckage
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ LocalCity ‘under the cosh’ from covid forced to admit adults to children’s critical care unit
Liverpool has been forced to re-open a paediatric intensive care unit to adults as the NHS chief executive warned the city was “right back under the cosh” from the third wave of the pandemic.
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NewsExclusive: Half of London’s hospital patients have covid-19
There are now more patients who have confirmed covid-19 in London’s acute hospitals as those who do not, after the need to treat people with the virus displaced thousands of other patients.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The covid tidal wave heads North once more
Hospitals in the Midlands are being primed to take covid patients from London and the South East, but with the tidal wave of covid admissions sweeping north this seems like a very short-term fix.
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HSJ LocalUrgent cancer cases cancelled at North West trust
Some urgent cancer treatments have been cancelled in Cheshire due to the rising covid pressures, HSJ has learned.
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NewsLondon and the East lag North East on covid vaccination
The East and London — two regions under huge pressure from covid’s third wave — are lagging behind in vaccinating over 80s for covid-19, according to new figures published by NHS England.
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NewsHard-hit region has more than twice as many critical care patients as last winter
One NHS region now has double the number of critical care patients it did last winter — and all areas are more full than last year — HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsPrivate sector ‘pushing back’ on NHS request to take more patients, says top trust
Private hospitals are ‘pushing back’ on requests from trusts to send them more NHS patients, following a change to the national contract with the independent sector, and amid high pressure from covid-19.
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NewsNHS forced into 'daily export' of critically-ill patients from covid-saturated trusts
Dozens of patients are being transferred between intensive care units every week as covid pressure mounts on hospitals, HSJ has been told.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: New surge could see covid bed occupancy at 60pc
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ LocalMultiple failings in trust’s handling of £20m Roche deal, leak reveals
Multiple failings have been identified in how a leading cancer trust entered into a £20m research partnership with a large pharmaceutical company, and how bosses then reacted to concerns raised by staff.
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NewsEvery NHS region sees April levels of covid inpatients as deaths start to rise again
All seven NHS England regions are now struggling under covid inpatient demand not seen since the peak of the pandemic in April.
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NewsDoctors claim major infection control ‘deficiencies’ at region’s hospitals
Research by a group of doctors has found ‘major deficiencies’ around infection control within hospitals in the North West region.
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NewsCovid hospital admissions begin to rise again in the North as South explodes
Covid hospital admissions are now rising again in both the north west and north east and Yorkshire regions.
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HSJ LocalChair of troubled FT to resign after CEO’s sudden departure
The chair of a troubled acute trust in Greater Manchester has announced his resignation, a month after its chief executive announced her sudden departure.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts receiving a share of £600m estates fund
An acute trust in London is among the biggest winners of a £600m allocation by the government to pay for backlog maintenance across the NHS.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: The second wave hit to cancer pathways
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsLeaks reveal two-thirds of private hospital capacity went unused by NHS
Two-thirds of the private sector capacity that was block-purchased by the NHS — costing hundreds of millions of pounds — went unused by the service over the summer, despite rocketing long waits for operations, according to internal documents leaked to HSJ.
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NewsHospitals pass peak of second wave
The second wave has peaked in England’s hospitals, with the number of beds occupied by covid patients falling for five consecutive days across the country.