‘No new suppliers’ promises ICS as four trusts eye EPR purchases
A major acute provider will make a second attempt at procuring a new electronic patient record, while three neighbouring trusts are planning to launch a separate tender process, HSJ has learned.
Revealed: Best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food
The best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food have been revealed in a national assessment by patients and staff.
How trusts are saving thousands of hours, which can be spent with patients instead
Guy Lucchi on how the CareFlow electronic patient record can help clinicians provide safer and more efficient care while spending more time with patients
North by North West: Takeover and a makeover
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North by North West: Liverpool promises to change
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CQC names worst trusts for maternity care
The trusts with substantially worse experience of maternity care have been identified by the Care Quality Commission.
EPRs are in the spotlight (again) – but ICSs will bring new opportunities to the table
EPRs that are custom designed for ICSs and the NHS are vital for collaborative, data driven, preventive and supportive care. By Dr Jonathan Bloor
HSJ Partnership Awards 2022: Staffing Solution of the Year
WINNER: Patchwork Health and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust: Establishing the North West Collaborative Bank - The Largest in the UK
Neonatal units face ‘redesignation’ under national shake-up
A major shake-up of neonatal care, aimed at reducing mortality and illness, could see dozens of units restricted to caring for less premature babies.
Trusts receive half of funding for ‘essential’ maternity improvements
Trusts have so far received just over half of the £102m they said was needed for ‘immediate and essential’ improvements in maternity services.
Chief executive to run two trusts
Two trusts in the North West will share a chief executive and work in partnership to help secure “fragile” services.
Trust complains of ‘very harsh’ exclusion from national costing report
Fourteen trusts have had their financial data excluded from a national survey of spending due to accounting errors, in a process that one described as ‘very harsh’.
Hospitals re-impose visiting restrictions amid soaring covid pressures
Several hospital trusts have re-introduced restrictions on patient visitors as covid-19 infections soar in their areas.
North by North West: ‘Our levels of trust are a million miles away from what we need’
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How NHS trusts are removing barriers to create ‘staffing safety nets’
Dr Anas Nader outlines key principles to ensure collaborative staff banks add value to NHS staffing infrastructure
North by North West: Glimpsing the peak and surveying the wreckage
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Doctors claim major infection control ‘deficiencies’ at region’s hospitals
Research by a group of doctors has found ‘major deficiencies’ around infection control within hospitals in the North West region.
Trusts across region create staff bank to cut agency costs
Eighteen trusts in the North West will establish a major ‘staff bank’, using new technology to pool junior doctors across the region.
Second covid wave will be ‘10 times harder’ for the NHS, says CEO
The second wave of the covid pandemic will be ‘10 times harder’ for the NHS, and will require a step-change in the service’s use of technology, according to the chief executive of a trust group in the Midlands.
Exclusive: Covid-struck city to hold talks today on cancelling ops
Urgent talks will be held this afternoon over the extent to which hospitals in Liverpool can scale back their elective care due to rising covid admissions, HSJ understands.