All THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL KING'S LYNN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 3
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NewsGovt to add trusts with unsafe roofs to ‘40 new hospitals’ programme
Several trusts with dangerous structural planks are set to be selected for the government’s flagship hospital building programme, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: NHS England’s list of trusts with worst elective and cancer problems
Almost a third of acute trusts have been identified by NHS England as being ‘at risk’ of missing key targets for electives and cancer recovery, with some facing ‘periodic calls between ministers and CEOs’, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTurnaround CEO quits trust to join health tech firm
A chief executive who led one of the country’s most challenged trusts out of special measures is leaving to join a health technology company.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts where at least one in 20 suspected cancer patients have waited three months
More than 5 per cent of patients with suspected cancer have been waiting more than 104 days at 14 trusts, data leaked to HSJ reveals.
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NewsExclusive: Three-month cancer waits top 10,000
More than 10,000 people are waiting three months or longer following a referral for suspected cancer, internal NHS data seen by HSJ reveals.
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NewsRegulators downgrade rating of high-profile trust but promote four
NHS England has moved four providers out of ‘special measures’ but significantly downgraded the rating of one specialist trust.
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NewsRevealed: The 27 trusts still without an electronic patient record
Almost 30 NHS trusts do not have comprehensive electronic patient records amid a renewed push by government to get electronic systems into all NHS hospitals, according to HSJ research.
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HSJ LocalTrusts pause private plan for joint leadership
The three acute trusts in the Norfolk and Waveney integrated care system have admitted the existence of private plans to merge their leadership, but say the proposals are now on hold, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: The ethnically diverse trusts with all-white leadership
Analysis of new data has identified multiple trusts which appear to have no executives or very senior managers from a minority ethnic background, despite their workforces being relatively diverse.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts with the biggest falls in staff confidence in care provided
Several large teaching hospitals are among those which saw the steepest declines in the proportion of staff who would recommend the care of their organisation, according to the NHS staff survey results.
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NewsNeonatal units face ‘redesignation’ under national shake-up
A major shake-up of neonatal care, aimed at reducing mortality and illness, could see dozens of units restricted to caring for less premature babies.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: How to fix an NHS trust
NHS trusts are getting better – that’s the view of the Care Quality Commission, at least, which now rates only a single organisation as “inadequate”, and two-thirds as “good” or “outstanding”, a big shift from five years ago.
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NewsBest NHS leaders should take on ‘biggest challenges’, says chief inspector
The NHS needs its best leaders to be prepared to take on ‘the biggest challenges’, despite the risk of criticism, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector has said.
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HSJ LocalLong-challenged trust lifted out of special measures
A Norfolk district general hospital long viewed as among the NHS’ most challenged trusts is set to be removed from the recovery support scheme, formerly special measures, after making ‘fantastic improvements’, inspectors have announced.
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CommentHow I led the turnaround of a special measures trust
Caroline Shaw shares her thoughts on why turning round a special measures hospital has been the hardest but most rewarding role of her career to date and why she’s adamant the NHS should put our brightest and best CEOs in challenged hospitals.
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HSJ LocalChair leaves trust ahead of ‘positive’ CQC report
The chair of an ‘inadequate’ rated hospital trust – said to have made improvements now being recognised by regulators – is moving to another provider in the region.
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NewsMore than 100 trusts bid for ‘massively oversubscribed’ New Hospitals programme
Nearly two thirds of NHS trusts in England have submitted bids to the government’s ‘massively oversubscribed’ hospital building programme, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalCCG opens ‘care hotel’ after critical incident
A hotel in the centre of Norwich is temporarily being converted into a care facility to help ease local bed pressures, as Norfolk becomes the latest area to pilot the model.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021: Patient Safety Innovation of the Year
Partnered by WINNER Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn: SAFIRA - SAFer Injection for Regional Anaesthesia
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NewsCentre described hospital chief as ‘sensationalist’ over roof problems
The NHS England media team believed a hospital chief executive had taken a ‘sensationalist tone’ over serious problems with the building’s roof, according to a briefing written by the Department of Health and Social Care.