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NewsPublic satisfaction with A&E plummeting, suggests new research
Patient satisfaction levels in emergency departments have collapsed across England, according to new research.
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NewsTrust taken out of special measures after four years
Isle of Wight Trust has been moved out of special measures and rated “good” by regulators, four years after it was declared “inadequate”.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Devastated’ doctors warn trust CEO of ‘extremely unsafe situation’
Consultants at a major tertiary centre have written to their chief executive, warning services are in ‘an extremely unsafe situation’ and calling for elective work to be diverted elsewhere.
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NewsICS admits 14 of its major services are ‘fragile and challenged’
Fourteen of an integrated care system’s major services — which account for the ‘majority of [its] planned care’ — have been described as ‘fragile and challenged’.
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NewsCCG closes private firm's GP practice in remote area
Nine thousand patients in an isolated part of Kent have been given two months to find a new GP surgery after the clinical commissioning group did not renew a contract with the existing practice – despite the area being short of GPs.
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News‘Significant unresolved issues’ at mental health trust years on from scandal
There are still “significant unresolved issues” at Southern Health Foundation Trust which has not “reached the standards expected”, a report has found, six years after its leadership was heavily criticised in relation to major care failings.
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NewsTroubled trust’s chief executive to stand down
The chief executive of a trust with major care quality concerns, including a maternity scandal investigation, is to stand down.
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NewsTrust reviewing harm to 175 patients after referrals breakdown
An acute trust has apologised after nearly 1,000 patients, almost 200 of which were urgent cases, faced delays due to a breakdown of referral systems.
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NewsTrusts recruit extra midwives as baby boom hits
Trusts in the South East are recruiting additional midwives as this year’s birth rates soar, with an increase of more than 20 per cent in women booking to give birth at one trust.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital rebuild more than two years behind schedule
One of England’s biggest hospital redevelopment schemes is more than two years behind schedule.
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NewsIndependent providers ‘prioritising private patients over NHS’
The NHS is struggling to increase procedures carried out in the independent sector, with some providers prioritising private-paying patients for limited capacity.
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NewsTrust boards take next step to merge despite governors’ objections
Two foundation trusts in the South East have taken the next steps towards a merger.
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NewsFT in row over ‘bullying behaviour’ ahead of possible merger
The board of one of England’s smallest trusts is expected to approve the next steps to merge with its neighbour this week, despite some of its council of governors vehemently opposing the move.
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NewsHospital closed wards after CQC raised patient safety concerns
Staff at a private psychiatric hospital failed to notice a patient had not eaten for five days after admission and was drinking just coffee and cola during this time, Care Quality Commission inspectors found.
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NewsTrust’s board and governors clash over potential merger
The governors and board of one of England’s smallest trusts are at loggerheads over a possible merger with a megatrust neighbour.
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NewsDismay at failure to align ICS footprints with council boundaries
There has been an outcry from some local government figures in areas where the health secretary Sajid Javid has decided not to go ahead with making integrated care partnership footprints coterminous with upper tier authority boundaries.
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NewsInterim chair appointed as trust mulls merger
A specialist provider contemplating a merger with its mega-trust neighbour has appointed an interim chair.
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NewsTrust seeks ‘urgent financial support’ to meet demand for services
A trust has warned it needs ‘urgent financial support’ from its local integrated care systems to cope with unprecedented demand for children’s services.
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NewsTrust considers ‘replacing or rebuilding’ hospital due to risky roof beams
A hospital with a roof containing beams described as a ‘significant safety issue’ could be rebuilt or replaced rather than repaired, at a likely cost of several hundred million pounds.
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NewsRegulator criticises covid-hit trust over infection control
Concerns have been raised about a trust’s approach to infection prevention and control issues — more than a year into the pandemic — including that it stopped screening those arriving at the hospital entrances for covid after 5pm.