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NewsFifteen trusts asked to pay executives more than prime minister
Fifteen trusts have applied for permission to pay at least one board member more than the prime minister’s £142,500 annual salary, HSJ research reveals.
HSJ LocalPossible legal challenge over better care fund millions
FINANCE: Wiltshire Council could make a legal challenge against Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group following a dispute over better care fund payments.
NewsWarning A&Es will 'fly blind' with less performance data this winter
NHS England will not publish figures on the number of ambulances queuing, four hour waits in emergency departments, cancelled operations or delayed transfers of care on a weekly basis, as it has done in previous winters.
HSJ LocalStaff felt 'failure was not an option' at specialist trust
PERFORMANCE: A “pressurised” culture at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Trust led to a situation where staff felt “there was no option of failure”, an independent review has concluded.
HSJ LocalFirst ambulance service placed in special measures
PERFORMANCE: London Ambulance Service Trust has been put in special measures after an inspection that found staff did not feel supported and response time performance was regularly the worst in the country.
HSJ LocalInterview: Ambulance service fully prepared for terror attack, says chief executive
The chief executive of the first ambulance service to be placed in special measures has told HSJ the trust is prepared for a major incident in the same vein as the recent Paris terror attacks.
HSJ LocalNew chief executive for East Kent
WORKFORCE: East Kent University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive.
NewsGovernment wants 'long term partnerships' between NHS and private sector
The NHS will be encouraged to create “long term partnerships” with the private sector to develop new models of care and upgrade diagnostics services.
HSJ LocalLeading London trust to open India and Dubai hospitals
COMMERCIAL: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust will open two international hospitals through its commercial arm.
HSJ LocalBME network calls for trust board members to step down
WORKFORCE: The Black and Minority Ethnic Network at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has said it has “no confidence” in the trust’s leadership and has set up a petition calling for the board to step down.
NewsLondon urgent and emergency care services to be recategorised
Urgent and emergency care services in London will be split into three different categories, as part of work to take forward Sir Bruce Keogh’s recommendations from the urgent and emergency care review in 2013.
NewsLondon organisations set out devolution bids
London devolution bids include a partnership in the north east of the capital that will request to locally control its own payment mechanisms.
HSJ LocalEast Sussex maternity unit to switch to Kent trust’s control
STRUCTURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust will take over a maternity unit previously run by East Sussex Healthcare Trust.
NewsDelayed transfers of care at highest ever September level
Delayed transfers of care were at their highest level in any September since 2010 as trusts struggle with high bed occupancy rates.
NewsRollout of shared care records can cut DTOCs, commission says
Delayed transfers of care can be avoided by pushing ahead with shared care records, paying social care workers the national living wage and strengthening the role of health and wellbeing boards, a report from NHS Providers has recommended.
HSJ LocalNew chief executive appointed for Moorfields
WORKFORCE: Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive.
HSJ LocalAmbulance pilot scheme linked to patient death 'not suitably managed'
PATIENT SAFETY: An ambulance pilot that could have contributed to the death of at least one patient had no ‘risk assessment and limited risk management’, NHS England has concluded.
NewsTrust chiefs warn bed occupancy already at winter levels
Bed occupancy in acute trusts is already at the most pressured winter levels, trust chief executives and directors have told HSJ.
HSJ LocalControversial ambulance delay pilot may have contributed to patient death
Commissioners warned that a controversial South East Coast Ambulance Foundation Trust pilot that added 10 minutes to some emergency response times may have contributed to the death of at least one patient, leaked emails seen by HSJ reveal.
NewsPublic do not trust NHS with personal data, admits health secretary
The public do not trust the NHS to look after personal health information, the health secretary admitted at the HSJ annual lecture on Thursday evening.