North by North West: Manchester must get a grip on electives
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Patients fit for discharge stuck in hospital for up to nine months
Medically fit patients are waiting up to nine months to be discharged from some NHS hospitals as increasing numbers of working age people develop more complex conditions amid ongoing social care shortages.
Revealed: CEO and exec turnover at each acute trust
Some acute trusts have kept more than half of their executive directors over a five-year period – whereas others have seen all of them change, according to HSJ analysis of top-level managerial stability.
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.
‘Impossible’ to improve delayed discharges as picture worsens
The number of patients stuck in hospitals despite being ‘medically fit’ to leave has continued to increase in recent months, leading to warnings from NHS Confederation that trusts are finding it ‘impossible’ to make progress on reducing the numbers.
Revealed: The 27 trusts still without an electronic patient record
Almost 30 NHS trusts do not have comprehensive electronic patient records amid a renewed push by government to get electronic systems into all NHS hospitals, according to HSJ research.
North by North West: The omicron damage
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North by North West: Thousands of staff set for redeployment
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North by North West: The real route to reopening a fragile service
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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.
North by North West: The legacy of Shipman
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Landmark reconfiguration that promised to save 300 lives a year ‘quietly dropped’
One of the highest profile NHS reconfigurations of the last decade — that pledged to save 300 lives per year — has been “quietly dropped”, HSJ has learned.
Ex-teaching trust CEO joins NHS property quango
A former teaching trust CEO who quit amid financial turmoil, plus a recently departed acute chair, have become directors at NHS Property Services.
Struggling FT appoints new chair
A troubled acute trust in Greater Manchester has appointed a new substantive chair.
Exclusive: Reviews of hospital-acquired covid deaths as ‘basic’ breaches found
Senior doctors are leading a programme of work to review deaths caused by hospital-acquired covid in the North West, which has had disproportionately high rates of nosocomial infections over the last three months.
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.
Chair of troubled FT to resign after CEO’s sudden departure
The chair of a troubled acute trust in Greater Manchester has announced his resignation, a month after its chief executive announced her sudden departure.
HSJ’s 50 most read articles of 2020
HSJ takes a look back at the 50 most read stories of 2020.
Leadership of struggling trust to be taken over as CEO announces sudden departure
The chief executive of an acute trust in Greater Manchester has suddenly announced her departure, with the boss of a neighbouring provider set to take over the organisation’s leadership on a joint basis.