All Yorkshire and the Humber articles – Page 21
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HSJ LocalHospital IT crash won't be resolved until end of the week
Leeds and Bradford trusts cancel 132 operations IT system may not be fully restored until the end of this week Other hospitals in Yorkshire now providing pathology services to Bradford hospital and Leeds GPs Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has said it has now successfully cleared a backlog of ...
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HSJ LocalIT failure leaves teaching hospital with 10,000 tests backlog
Leeds and Bradford trusts cancelling non-urgent operations IT system may not be up and running until the end of next week Test results are being hand delivered but some are going to the wrong place with incorrect patient information One of the country’s largest teaching hospitals faces a ...
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HSJ LocalGPs told to cancel blood tests after teaching trust's IT failure
CCGs tell all GPs in Leeds to cancel routine blood tests after hardware fault at Leeds Teaching Hospital GPs expect to have to recall some patients for testing as samples become unviable Fault is also affecting Bradford Teaching Hospitals and caused “critical” internal incident at Leeds All routine ...
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HSJ LocalIT crash causes 'critical incident' at major teaching hospital
Operations and appointments have been cancelled after a “critical” fault with Leeds Teaching Hospitals’ pathology IT system Test results are having to be hand delivered to clinical teams with significant impact on patient flow Fault is also affecting Bradford Teaching Hospitals and local GPs who use the trust’s pathology ...
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HSJ LocalYorkshire hospital trust chief steps down
LEADERSHIP: A south Yorkshire hospital trust chief executive has stepped down to spend more time with his family after nearly four years in the post.
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CommentCapitated budgets are a good deal for long term conditions
With the Year of Care capitation tariff attracting global interest, capitation budgets are becoming a mainstream need for seamless care of patients with long term conditions
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HSJ LocalMental health trust saves £2m by cutting out of area placements
Mental health trust has eliminated acute adult out of area placements due to lack of beds in the last four years Sheffield Health and Social Care FT has put the £2m savings into bolstering community services teams “Out of town bed nights” dropped from 2,939 to 188 from 2011-12 ...
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HSJ Local'Outstanding' CCG announces £8m savings target
Harrogate and Rural District CCG was given the top rating by NHS England last month CCG now says growing and ageing population is putting strain on its finances and it expects an £8.4m shortfall for 2016-17 FINANCE: A Yorkshire clinical commissioning group rated as outstanding last month has ...
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NewsHEE to re-run job appointment after royal college complaint
Health Education England has said it will re-run the appointment process for the head of Yorkshire and the Humber School of Radiology after the appointment of a radiographer led to complaints by a medical royal college.
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NewsRevealed: £6m spent on redundancies at closed CSUs
The bill for redundancies following the shutting of two commissioning support units reached more than £6m, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local'Confusion' over new policies led to trust's inadequate safety rating
Introduction of new policies “had not got the pace behind it should have” at Humber Foundation Trust, says nursing director Trust said policies had not filtered down to staff when CQC inspectors visited Inspectors rate trust as requires improvement overall and inadequate for safety QUALITY: Failure to filter ...
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HSJ LocalNew mental health crisis units designed to take strain off A&E
New mental health urgent crisis support unit opened near Bradford Shipley unit is the first of three designed to take pressure off A&E by directing mental health patients to other services Units funded through West Yorkshire Urgent Emergency Care Network vanguard SERVICE DESIGN: The first of three mental ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: when high expectations meet low morale
At a time of stagnating salaries and punishing workloads, how are NHS leaders helping staff cope?
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HSJ LocalMental health trust judged inadequate for safety
QUALITY: A mental health trust has been told it has not learned lessons from its inspection in 2014 and has been rated inadequate for safety by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalTrust plans night time A&E closure after reaching 'crisis point'
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust to make a decision on temporary reduction of opening hours of Grantham A&E department Trust says services have reached “crisis point” and “patients may be put at risk if we don’t act” Royal College of Emergency Medicine says trust was in an “increasingly common situation” ...
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NewsNursing shortage could continue beyond 2020
Forecast demand by trusts for adult nurses is not aligned to the Five Year Forward View Unless demand forecasts reduce the nursing shortage will continue beyond 2020 HEE’s pledge to meet future demand for nurses depends on activity falling in line with forward view Trusts had forecast an additional ...
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NewsRoyal college attacks 'ill conceived' appointment by HEE
Health Education England has been accused by a medical royal college of making an “ill informed and ill conceived decision” by appointing a non-medic to a key role overseeing the training of radiologists in the North.
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HSJ LocalWhistleblowing manager given £240k payout in wake of bullying claims
WORKFORCE: A senior manager who made accusations of bullying by the chief executive at a Yorkshire acute trust was given a £240,000 exit package two years after being placed on “special leave”, figures in the trust’s board papers reveal.
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CommentWe need to live the values that Kate Granger inspired
Kate Granger’s legacy is a global brand - the task for the NHS now is to unite and change our culture for the better
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HSJ LocalYorkshire FT names new chief executive
STRUCTURE: A Yorkshire mental health trust has appointed Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust’s director of quality and nursing as its new chief executive.