Trusts to share joint chief ahead of breakup
Two trusts in the south of England have named a joint chief executive as part of a major reorganisation.
Trust spent £680k in failed attempt to fight whistleblower
A trust spent £460,000 on legal fees trying to fight a patient safety whistleblowing case that it lost, it can be revealed.
HSJ Podcast: A game changer for length of stay?
The debate over single patient rooms has raged for many years, but emerging news from Liverpool’s new hospital suggests it could be a game-changer for cutting patients’ length of stay. We discuss the impact of the much-maligned city trust’s new hospital on patient flow.
Two trusts to appoint single chief executive
Two trusts are set to appoint a single chief executive and executive team as they move towards a joined-up leadership model.
HSJ Podcast: The staff the NHS forgot
An HSJ Investigation has revealed trusts are denying staff employed by their wholly owned subsidiary companies the pay and conditions offered to other staff. We discuss why this forgotten group of the workforce are missing out.
Trust must pay £200k to whistleblower it subjected to ‘campaign of harassment’
A trust that sacked a whistleblower who had warned them about potential patient harm from a new procedure has been told to pay her more than £200,000.
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.
NHS maintenance backlog tops £10bn
Spending on the NHS estate has increased at the fastest-rate since the service began collecting detailed data, new figures show.
Trust appoints replacement for chief who left for national job
An acute trust in the south of England has announced its new chief executive, more than a year after its former CEO left for a national role.
Plans to improve urgent care and ambulance handovers £8m short
Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust is facing an £8m gap in its finances after funding it had anticipated it would receive for improving urgent care and ambulance handovers has not materialised.
Exclusive: ‘Outrageous’ long A&E waits for mental health patients increase 150pc
Mental health patients who arrive at emergency departments in crisis are increasingly facing ‘outrageous’ long waits for an inpatient bed, with some being forced to wait several days.
Deputy chief gets England’s biggest hospital job
UPDATED: The deputy chief executive of Barts Health Trust has been promoted to be joint CEO of the trust and its neighbour, one of the biggest jobs in the English hospital system.
Trust board backs medical director who wrongly dismissed whistleblower
A trust board has backed the medical director who oversaw the dismissal of a whistleblower in a case linked to patient deaths.
Trust loses whistleblowing case over ‘pioneering’ procedure
A senior medic has won a whistleblowing case after judges ruled she was dismissed after raising concerns about a new procedure her department was using.
NHSE appoints new regional director
NHS England has appointed an interim regional director for London, and confirmed Sir David Sloman’s appointment as chief operating officer.
NHS England chooses new chief operating officer
NHS England’s London director is set to become its chief operating officer for an interim period after a recruitment process failed to make a substantive appointment, HSJ understands.
Leak reveals hour-long ambulance delays have quadrupled in 12 months
Ambulance handover delays lasting more than 60 minutes have quadrupled compared to this time last year, according to internal NHS data.
Trusts failing to report ‘concerning’ numbers of hospital-acquired covid cases
Some acute trusts have failed to report large numbers of hospital-acquired covid infections as patient safety incidents, despite NHS England describing this as ‘fundamental’.
Inconsistent leadership undermining safety of maternity services, says CQC
Inconsistent leadership and poor teamworking, lack of risk oversight and a failure to engage with women’s needs are among the issues continuing to affect the safety of some hospital maternity services, the Care Quality Commission has found.