Exclusive: 800 consultants refuse to cover juniors strike without extra pay
More than 800 consultants in London have signed a letter saying they will not cover the junior doctors’ strike next week unless their trusts agree to pay a higher overtime rate set by the British Medical Association.
Inexperienced trust CEOs get extra support after NHSE concerns
Concerns over the number of trusts being run by first-time chief executives has prompted NHS England to offer an increased support package for new leaders, HSJ has learned.
CQC inspection teams lacked ‘correct expertise’, review finds
A review of the Care Quality Commission’s failures in a high-profile whistleblowing case says it needs to ensure clinicians with the “correct expertise” are placed on its inspection teams.
Why counselling should replace occupational health support for distressed staff
NHS trusts should provide counselling support services for staff that are independent of occupational health and management systems to improve uptake, write David Anderson and Lucy Howard
Flagship merger ‘effectively scrapped’ after ‘wasting millions’
The leader of a flagship ‘hub and spoke’ pathology merger has criticised regulators after the project was effectively dropped due to delays in receiving £31m of capital that was allocated to the scheme in 2018.
Revealed: Four trusts added to NHSE ‘help list’
NHS England has revealed the latest list of trusts which it has identified as needing the most support to meet electives and cancer targets.
Trust appoints management consultant as new chair
A new chair has been appointed to an acute trust in Lancashire.
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.
Revealed: 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.
Exclusive: 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.
Sky high hospital covid infections underline risk of IPC relaxation
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 correspondent Matt Discombe.
CEO ‘astonished’ by how few junior doctors meet their senior directors
A retiring chief executive was “astonished” how many junior doctors had never met the senior directors of their hospitals — and stressed how being visible on the wards is “critical” to good leadership.
Health system sees covid occupancy double in a week
Hospitals in Lancashire have reported a steep rise in covid patients, with the numbers more than doubling over the last seven days.
Dozens of hospitals hit dangerous bed occupancy levels
Dozens of acute trusts have operated at very high levels of bed occupancy in the past month, as they deal with a surge in non-covid patients with thousands fewer beds than normal.
CEO to take over third teaching trust
The chief executive of two acute providers is set to take over the leadership of a third teaching trust in Lancashire.
North by North West: How trusts compared on the NHS staff survey
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North by North West: Lessons to learn from four-year HR battle
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North by North West: Hancock’s grubby intervention over A&E closure
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10 new hospital vaccine sites revealed
Ten more hospitals are to start giving the Pfizer covid vaccine, including two in coronavirus ‘hot spots’.