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NewsPaying consultants more ‘helped trust cut waiting lists by nearly 20%’
A single trust accounted for nearly a fifth of the reduction in the national waiting list last year – and a director says the improvement was in part driven by paying staff higher overtime rates.
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News‘Profound’ improvement takes trust out of ‘recovery’
An ambulance trust is set to be promoted from the bottom tier of NHS England’s performance regime after nearly three years.
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NewsPatients told to soil themselves in understaffed A&E
The Care Quality Commission has reported on an emergency department with 55-hour A&E corridor waits, and some frail patients being told to soil themselves because there was no one to take them to the toilet, while another had to urinate into a bottle without privacy curtains.
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NewsNew regional director named by NHSE
NHS England has named a new regional director for the North East and Yorkshire, nine months after her substantive predecessor left.
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CEO InterviewLeadership interview: Jenni Douglas-Todd, chair of three trusts in Hampshire and Isle of Wight
This is the latest in a series of interviews with leaders, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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NewsTwo trust CEOs become NHS England advisers
Two foundation trust chief executives have joined NHS England as unpaid national advisers for community health services and developing neighbourhood health.
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NewsTrust CEO makes sudden move to ICS
The chief executive of a specialist trust is leaving with immediate effect to join an integrated care system, the provider has announced.
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NewsICBs missing checks on vulnerable children
Integrated care boards are warning they are failing to carry out health checks for vulnerable children in care because of a lack of paediatricians and rising demand, HSJ has found.
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NewsHospital chief moves to nearby trust
The chief executive of a trust awaiting a critical Care Quality Commission report has been appointed to lead another provider in the region.
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News‘Inadequate’ trust told to ensure it listens to staff
An ambulance trust has been told it needs to go further in its drive to improve, including that it listens to staff feedback.
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NewsTrust blames £1.8bn tender for going six months without board meeting
A community trust is set to go six months without a public board meeting – giving winter pressures and a large community services tender as its reasons.
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NewsICBs ‘exit’ 800 staff in cost-cutting programme
Integrated care boards paid exit packages to 809 staff under centrally-ordered cost cuts last year, with some spending four to five times the average, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsSpecialist unit a step closer after 13 years in planning
A long-awaited hyperacute stroke unit could finally be opened – 13 years after it was first mooted.
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NewsRevealed: 14 ICBs cutting spend on the third sector
Nearly half of all integrated care boards are due to cut their spending on voluntary, community and social enterprise services this financial year, HSJ analysis suggests.
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NewsTrust chair leaves after less than a year in post
An ambulance trust chair is leaving after just 10 months to take up an as-yet-unspecified executive role elsewhere in the NHS.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Winter returns with a vengeance
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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NewsPatient transport service failing on most fronts, data reveals
A company providing patient transport services across an integrated care system has massively underperformed against key indicators, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust rapped for ‘irregular’ £116k payment to outgoing CEO
An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the public spending watchdog after it paid its departing chief executive more than £100,000 without prior Treasury sign-off.
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NewsRegion targets prescription cuts under ‘enormous financial pressure’
All but one of a region’s integrated care boards have stopped prescribing gluten-free products to save money, with a charity saying the move will exacerbate inequalities and risk “debilitating symptoms”.
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NewsTroubled trust fails to recruit chair for a year
A troubled trust has been without a permanent chair for a year and is likely to wait several more months, HSJ has learned.