All West Midlands articles – Page 10
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HSJ Local
Trust chief appointed permanent ‘group CEO’ despite ‘poor behaviour’ finding
A trust chief executive who behaved “poorly and inappropriately” in his role as interim CEO of another acute provider has been appointed permanent boss of both organisations.
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‘Big personalities’ accused of bullying thought to be ‘bullet proof’, finds review
Doctors at an acute trust believe their clinical leaders have failed to tackle the ‘big personalities’ accused of being aggressive bullies, a review has found.
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'Inadequate' private hospital ‘not suited to modern psychiatric care’
An independent hospital for people with complex learning disabilities or autism is facing fresh criticism from health inspectors just months after it was first placed in special measures.
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Ambulance waits hit two hours for heart attacks and strokes
Average waits for an ambulance for stroke and heart attack patients have reached as long as two hours in one region, after a further fall in performance in recent weeks, HSJ can reveal.
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Scandal inquiry issues 15 actions for trusts nationally
Repeated care and governance failures were routinely ignored by a hospital trust where poor maternity care resulted in almost 300 avoidable baby deaths or brain damage cases, the most damning review of maternity services in the NHS’s history finds today.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Are 50,000 more nurses enough in a post-pandemic world?
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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Javid ‘unconcerned’ as covid admissions rise 46 pc in a fortnight
Admissions of covid positive patients to English hospitals are once again rising steadily across England.
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Keeping electives on same site as A&E is ‘optimal’, says CEO
The chief executive of three NHS trusts says ringfencing elective care within a ‘hot’ acute hospital site is potentially more ‘productive’ than sending it to a separate ‘cold’ site.
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HSJ Local
Health secretary warned of funding ‘challenge’ to A&E overhaul
The health secretary has been told that a long-delayed A&E revamp at the NHS’ only inadequate-rated trust remains ‘challenging’, with the need to meet a wide range of requirements proving ‘difficult to resolve’.
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Covid hospital admissions start to rise again
The number of covid positive patients admitted to English hospitals has started to rise again after falling for nearly two months.
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Trust CEO ‘behaved poorly’ and chair was ‘complicit’, NHS England review concludes
A trust chair found by an NHS England review to have been complicit with poor and inappropriate behaviour has said he is now “really proud” of the organisation, in contrast to reports that he had been “ashamed to call himself chair” last year.
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More than 1,000 ‘definitely unvaccinated’ staff at one trust
At least 1,000 staff at the country’s largest NHS trust are still unvaccinated with a week to go until the deadline, it can be revealed.
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Troubled trust’s A&E shake-up bid sent back by NHSE
The controversial reconfiguration of a struggling hospital trust’s A&E services – plans for which have been in the pipeline for more than a decade – has suffered further delay after NHS England and Improvement sent proposals back for revisions.
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Region’s hospitals expect covid pressure to rise for another two weeks
Another two weeks of rising covid admissions have been forecast for one of the country’s hardest-hit regions for hospital cases, with senior sources telling HSJ they expect staff absences ‘to get worse before they get better’ and culminate in an end-of-January peak.
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Big city ICSs trail in booster uptake after Christmas slowdown
London, Birmingham and the Black Country are again trailing on vaccine uptake, after a large unplanned drop in booster demand since the Christmas period.
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Treatment disrupted as trust suffers major data loss
A major IT incident at an acute trust is disrupting treatment for eye patients after a significant data loss, it has emerged.
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The 16 trusts where covid patients occupy one in five beds
Sixteen hospital trusts had a fifth or more of their general beds occupied by covid patients on 4 January, the latest figures show, including three outside London and the South East.
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First eight ‘new nightingales’ revealed
The location of first ‘covid surge hubs’ has been announced by the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Growth rate of covid admission stalls in London and NW, hospitalisation down elsewhere
Admissions of covid positive patients are falling across England, apart from in London and the North West.
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We can’t suspend all staff who may pose risk to patients, says government
The government has rejected advice from an independent inquiry into the actions of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson to suspend all healthcare professionals who are suspected of posing a risk to patient safety.