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NewsTerror attack funding doesn’t meet trusts’ ask
NHS England has outlined spending worth about £34m to make ambulance services better able to respond to terror attacks – but the settlement appears to fall well short of ambulance trusts’ asks.
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News1,000 staff set for compulsory redundancy
A total of 1,000 jobs are set to go at commissioning support units after ministers approved a long-delayed case for redundancy, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE warns ICBs over staffing and capability gaps
NHS England criticised staffing and capacity issues at several integrated care boards, a year after instructing them to cut their staffing by half.
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NewsAmbulances without paramedics still attending thousands of calls
Three in 20 ambulances reaching patients with a life-threatening emergency have no paramedic as part of their crew in large parts of the country, an HSJ analysis of the latest data has discovered.
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NewsCEO raises alarm over terror attack readiness
A chief executive who has led ambulance trusts for 23 years has warned that the sector is not “sufficiently trained, equipped, or resourced” to respond to a terrorist attack.
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NewsInvestigation after patient ordered poison to inpatient unit
The Care Quality Commission is examining the circumstances surrounding the death of a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Birmingham.
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NewsFraud warning after trust misled funder
A trust misled a government green energy funder over £14.5m of grant funding, in a case its auditors say may indicate fraud.
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NewsStaff exodus to private rivals forces trust to restrict service
A mental health and community trust has been forced to restrict its children’s ADHD service after a string of staff left for private providers.
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NewsNorth-south divide opens up in ambulance services
Every ambulance trust in the south of England is missing the national category 2 response target so far this year, while all three northern trusts are inside it after a more sustained recovery.
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NewsWorst-rated trust gets new CEO for six months
The worst-rated acute trust in England has hired an experienced interim chief executive while its incumbent takes leave.
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NewsClosure of birthing units announced by ICBs
An integrated care board cluster has confirmed it will permanently close two birthing units.
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NewsAccounting error forces trust to downgrade forecast by £6m
The NHS’s worst-performing mental health trust had to adjust its accounts to record a £2.9m deficit after external auditors found it had wrongly classified £6m as an efficiency saving.
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NewsExclusive: Trust admits to harming 200 patients
Almost 200 patients suffered harm after a major teaching trust failed to manage its neurological waiting lists effectively, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsGovernor claims he was intimidated ‘for reposting HSJ articles’
A governor has accused the leadership of a major hospital trust of seeking to “intimidate” him by launching a probe into his social media posts.
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NewsTrusts cancel joint staff service with neighbours
Three trusts have cancelled a joint occupational health service after a row over standards.
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NewsFresh delay as ICB staff await compulsory redundancy
Around 50 staff facing compulsory redundancy in an integrated care board cluster have complained of a two-month delay as they wait for NHS England to sign off their departures.
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NewsMentally ill men forced into prison to get a bed
Police are sending people in mental health crisis to prison when they should be in a secure hospital, with “devastating consequences”, inspectors have warned.
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NewsLead provider role creating ‘potential conflicts of interest’, review finds
A lack of clarity around lead provider and commissioner roles at a mental health trust collaborative is creating “potential conflicts of interest”, a review has found.
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NewsICBs told to redraw boundaries again
Integrated care board boundaries will be redrawn again after Andy Burnham pledged they would match new local government footprints by 2029.
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NewsWelsh government denies English hospital’s £20m demand
A Welsh health board is refusing to pay £21m as demanded by an English hospital trust in a cross-border funding dispute.