All Reconfiguration articles – Page 16
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Chair and chief to leave reconfiguration row CCG
The two senior leaders of one of the largest clinical commissioning groups are leaving the roles, they have announced.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Three trusts set to merge by October
Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust to merge with two other trusts Chief executive Tracy Taylor to lead one of the biggest mental health and community trusts in the country New organisation is expected to be formed by 1 October Three trusts in the West Midlands are set to merge ...
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HSJ Local
Trusts could lose acute beds in stroke services shake-up
Proposal to centralise acute stroke services at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospital George Eliot and South Warwickshire trusts would lose acute beds but gain rehabilitations beds First reconfiguration proposal by STP that is also looking at changes to maternity, paediatrics and A&E services Strokes services in Coventry and ...
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Keogh: Chief execs need support not ‘frightening and suppressive’ behaviour
The NHS risks “a drift into…risk aversion and blame”, Sir Bruce Keogh has said, criticising the “terrible statistic that the life expectancy of a chief executive in our NHS is only two and a half years”.
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HSJ Local
Competition authority 'looks to clear' landmark trust merger
The Competition and Markets Authority has accepted that financial pressures on the NHS have “dampened the role of competition”, and says the impact on patient choice of the proposed merger of two large teaching trust in Manchester is “likely to be limited”.
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Exclusive: Weak government will hold up service change, Dickson warns
Niall Dickson says politicians could struggle to take “difficult decision” because of “political uncertainty” Ministers do not “sufficiently understand” scale of challenge facing NHS, says NHS Confederation chief Five Year Forward View is not deliverable in the current spending envelope, he warns Crucial NHS service change could be ...
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HSJ Local
Foundation trusts move step closer to full merger
Derby Teaching Hospitals and Burton Hospitals agree outline business case for merger Both trusts need to develop more sustainable footing for services in future Full business case expected in the autumn Two hospital trusts in the Midlands have approved an outline business case to merge.
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HSJ Local
Election candidate calls for minor injuries unit closure and land sale
Conservative candidate calls for MIU to be closed and land sold off Jackie Doyle-Price said new facilities would need to be put in place before any closure Move would be controversial in area already set to consult on major A&E restructure A Conservative election candidate in Essex has ...
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HSJ Local
Cancer services hit by raft of senior resignations
Three senior oncology resignations create ‘significant risk’ at Mid Essex The three Essex acute trusts launch wider review of cancer provision across their health economy Trust has ‘stabilised’ service in ‘the short term with agency locums’ A general hospital’s oncology department has been hit by three senior resignations ...
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HSJ Local
Trust seeks partner to fund major hospital shake-up
A struggling West Midlands trust intends to go out to procurement for a partner to help fund a major reconfiguration of its acute services.
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HSJ Local
Landmark city hospital merger expects to save £100m
Merger of Manchester’s hospitals expected to deliver savings on workforce, back office and estates costs, as well as activity reduction Plans involve centralisation of elective orthopaedics at Trafford General Hospital and vascular surgery at Manchester Royal Infirmary Project requires £56m of transformation funding Details revealed of significant reconfiguration of ...
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Simon Stevens: NHS will 'roll up sleeves' on service reform after election
NHS England chief executive reasserts commitment to “operational priorities” of Next Steps regardless of election outcome Stevens: 2017-18 will be a “sleeves rolled up year” in which integrated care is “made real” There is “a lot of work to do” on workforce, capital and infrastructure NHS England to announce ...
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HSJ Local
Major hospital shake-up delayed because reducing beds is 'unsafe'
CCGs and acute trust halt plans to cut 171 beds Major reconfiguration of acute and critical care will now be phased in by autumn Dewsbury Hospital to retain 100 more beds than originally planned A major reconfiguration of critical care in Yorkshire has been delayed after commissioners agreed ...
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HSJ Local
Struggling A&E to remain shut overnight
United Lincolnshire Hospitals extends Grantham A&E overnight closure for at least three more months Trust insists it plans to fully reopen A&E when “safe” to do so Independent Reconfiguration Panel due to announce if it will investigate trust’s decision The overnight closure of a struggling emergency unit has ...
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HSJ Local
Trust reconfigures specialist services ahead of GIRFT shake-up
An acute trust has shifted vascular services nine miles as part of a £13.2m plan to establish a new cardiovascular institute in the East Midlands.
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Comment
Snap election means the big choices are ducked, for now
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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HSJ Local
New merger trust sets out five year savings plan
New Essex mental health provider must deliver £43m of savings over next five years Essex Partnership University FT focusing on back office shake-up ahead of major service reconfiguration Trust has a £8.6m control total for 2017-18 Essex’s new mental health provider trust must deliver £43m of savings over ...
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Exclusive: Delay to major national hospital reconfiguration
NHS England extends consultation period for congenital heart disease review Public events planned for venues around the country next month have been cancelled Final decision could be pushed back until early next year A controversial decision on the future of congenital heart surgery across England has been further ...
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Top cardiac surgeon set to leave under-threat children’s heart unit
Clinical lead for paediatric cardiac surgery set to leave hospital trust Trust already faces closure of its congenital heart disease services Trust says it will still have necessary surgical cover A trust whose children’s heart unit faces closure looks set to lose its clinical lead for paediatric cardiac ...
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: New trust chief executive backs controversial hospital plan
Building a critical treatment hospital remains “the most sensible solution” to ensure the sustainability of acute services in mid and north Hampshire, the region’s newest trust chief executive has said.