North by North West: What now for The Christie?
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Ex-CEO sues trust and accuses chair of ‘bullying’
An acute trust is being sued for unfair dismissal by its former chief executive.
North by North West: Magna Carta to ‘mandated support’
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North by North West: PwC to review system’s ‘£800m deficit’
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American firm named as sole supplier for £20m framework
NHS trusts could spend up to £20m on new infection control systems provided by an American healthcare giant, after a new framework has been launched.
Trust names interim CEO after dropping merger plan
One of England’s smallest trusts has appointed an experienced interim chief executive for nine months while it recruits a permanent replacement.
North by North West: Accountants take back control
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CEO resigns after breakdown in relations with chair
There is confusion around the leadership of a struggling acute trust, after a breakdown in relations between the chair and chief executive.
Govt 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.
Revealed: 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.
Trust branded ‘inadequate’ for leadership and maternity
One of the trusts worst affected by coronavirus has been issued with two warning notices and rated ‘inadequate’ for leadership, following a Care Quality Commission inspection.
Revealed: The trusts hit hardest by covid
Revealing the hospital trusts hit hardest through the pandemic so far, and what their chief executives want to be learned from the experience.
CEOs of covid-ravaged trusts call for more action on shared waiting lists
Coordination of waiting lists and elective treatment across health systems and regions should be ‘far more systematic’, and could have happened earlier, chief executives of some of the hardest hit trusts have told HSJ.
Recovery Watch: The 20 trusts with three quarters of the NHS's two year waiters
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
Revealed: 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.
North by North West: Christie rebuffs NHSE and refuses to apologise
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London Eye: Why the capital's NHS staff are, relatively, happy
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Trusts locked into Russian gas contracts for another year
Several NHS trusts will remain locked into contracts with Russian energy giant Gazprom until April 2023, HSJ understands.
North by North West: Trusts pick EPR firm just ditched by ICS partner
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Ditching Russian gas could leave the NHS with a huge bill
The health secretary’s order for the NHS to excise Russian and Belarusian firms from its supply chain this week came with an acknowledgement that it may not be immediately possible to end contracts with suppliers.