Warning notice over children’s safety sent to trust
A hospital trust has been served a warning notice over safety issues while its children’s and young people’s services have been rated “inadequate”.
New chair will ‘reset group model’ across three trusts
Three Midlands hospital trusts with a combined turnover of more than £2bn are moving to share a single chair, who wants to drive further collaboration and partnership between them, HSJ can reveal.
New CEO for trust where ‘bullying and harassment were normalised’
An ambulance trust grappling with major cultural problems has appointed a substantive chief executive, who most recently has been on extended leave from his role leading two acute providers.
Trusts’ chair to leave amid CEO instability
The joint chair of two hospital trusts is to step down, just weeks after the “group” named its third CEO in four months.
Trust names third CEO in four months
A hospital group has appointed its second interim chief executive since October, after the substantive CEO went on leave for health reasons.
NHS leaders fear ambulance strike ‘calm’ will not last
The first NHS ambulance strike for 32 years appears not to have had any major impact so far.
NHS leaders ‘filled with dread’ ahead of ambulance strike
National, system and trust leaders have told HSJ they fear for the safety of patients and the wellbeing of staff as the NHS experiences its first ambulance strike for 32 years.
Waiting times got worse at trusts that dropped A&E target
Trusts trialling NHS England’s new A&E metrics reported worse average waiting times for admitted patients than those which stayed on the four-hour target, an HSJ analysis suggests.
Trusts lose interim CEO three months into role
The interim chief executive of a hospital ‘group’ in the Midlands is moving to a neighbouring trust, leaving the leadership of his current organisation uncertain.
Trust group appoints interim CEO as chief takes leave
A hospital group has named its chief digital information officer as interim chief executive, after its substantive CEO went on leave at short notice for personal reasons.
Staff shortages leaving women in ‘barbaric’ pain
Patient safety campaigners have said ‘too many women’ are still not being offered a general anaesthetic for a diagnostic test because of staff shortages, leaving them in severe pain.
Police drop inquiries into alleged manipulation of waiting list
Police have dropped a case against a Midlands trust which was accused of manipulating its waiting lists.
Hospital group’s ‘collective brand’ may help DGHs recruit, say chiefs
Two district general hospitals are planning a major clinical reconfiguration and developing a “collective brand” which they hope could ease their staffing problems, their leaders have told HSJ.
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.
More than a dozen trust chairs receive two salaries as shared leadership spreads
Sixteen people are now chairing more than one NHS trust, but there is significant variation in how much they are paid for their extra roles, an HSJ analysis has found.
Trust pleads for cash advance to fix ‘UK’s most cramped A&E’
An acute trust with the ‘most cramped and limited emergency department in the UK’ has warned delaying promised capital funds will mean treating patients in unsuitable facilities until 2030.
Senior CQC inspector appointed hospital CEO
A Care Quality Commission deputy chief inspector has been appointed hospital chief executive at an East Midlands trust.
Covid pressures linked to increased fall rates and patient deaths
Two patients have died and at least seven more have come to harm in recent falls linked to covid-19 pressures at a small acute trust.
Trust boss warns region faces ‘absolute crisis’ with trusts ‘hanging on by their fingernails’
Hospital chiefs in the South West have warned the region will not avoid the extreme pressures felt by other parts of the NHS, amid rapidly rising numbers of covid-19 inpatients.
HSJ’s most read technology stories of 2020
With 2020 down to its final days, it’s time to take a look back at HSJ’s most read technology stories of the year.