Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

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ICS explores wide-ranging service reorganisation

2024-05-31T06:59:00+01:00

An integrated care system is seeking support to explore a wide-ranging reconfiguration programme encompassing all acute and community services, HSJ has learned.

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40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent

2024-05-20T04:00:00+01:00

Fourty per cent of the £150m capital funding pot NHS England made available to incentivise urgent and emergency care improvements was not distributed, data shown to HSJ reveals.

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Trusts face paybill hike from rebanding claims

2024-04-24T04:00:00+01:00

Ambulance trusts are facing significantly higher costs as thousands of staff look set to be upgraded to a higher pay band.

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Trusts’ performance on key recovery target revealed

2024-03-20T12:54:00+00:00

Ten trusts have just 1 per cent or fewer of their outpatients on “patient initiated follow-up” pathways, against a target of 5 per cent, official data suggests.

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ICB warned of ‘large financial risk’ from HCA wage claim

2024-03-14T13:45:00+00:00

NHS organisations across Surrey are to review healthcare assistants’ pay in the face of potential strike action at one trust.

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Revealed: Trusts most reliant on oil for their energy

2024-03-04T12:49:00+00:00

Oil consumption across the NHS estate has seen its largest annual increase in a decade, as trusts turn to the fuel for emergencies and surges in demand.

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Two execs drafted in to help ailing trust

2024-01-12T12:17:00+00:00

A challenged acute trust has made two executive appointments, including an interim chief operating officer drafted in at short notice.

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Revealed: The worst trusts for long discharge delays

2023-11-23T04:48:00+00:00

The trusts with the most patients waiting at least a week after they are ‘ready’ to be discharged can be identified for the first time, following publication of new NHS England data.

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Ministers name 30 trusts receiving share of £250m fund

2023-08-15T06:00:00+01:00

Ministers have named the 30 trusts which will receive a share of a £250m fund to increase urgent and emergency care capacity.

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Two trusts added to NHSE list of providers at ‘high risk’

2023-06-15T10:40:00+01:00

Two trusts have been added to NHS England’s list of those identified as needing the most support meeting cancer and elective targets.

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‘National improvement board’ to be set up by NHS England

2023-04-21T11:00:00+01:00

NHS England has launched a new framework for quality improvement and delivery, including a national board that will pick a ‘small number of shared national priorities’.

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Two ex-acute CEOs brought in to fix ICS’s elective problem

2023-03-23T05:41:00+00:00

Two former acute trust CEOs have been brought in to help with the elective recovery in the integrated care system with the highest number of patients waiting a long time for treatment.

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Exclusive: Ambulance crews urged to conserve oxygen

2022-12-30T07:48:00+00:00

Ambulance staff are being urged to conserve oxygen supplies because of a national shortage of small cylinders used both on ambulances and in some A&E departments.

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‘Four-hour rush’ continuing at top A&Es

2022-09-23T10:31:00+01:00

Hospital trusts are still treating many patients just before the four-hour A&E target deadline, whose proposed abolition was reversed by government yesterday, HSJ analysis has revealed.

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Systems push back on NHS England’s ‘financial break even’ ask

2022-04-12T06:00:00+01:00

Multiple health systems are pushing back on their financial targets for 2022-23 and seeking to negotiate more ‘realistic’ plans with NHS, HSJ  understands.

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HSJ Awards 2021: Acute or Specialist Trust of the Year

2021-11-19T00:01:00+00:00

WINNER: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust

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Trusts recruit extra midwives as baby boom hits

2021-08-18T10:40:00+01:00

Trusts in the South East are recruiting additional midwives as this year’s birth rates soar, with an increase of more than 20 per cent in women booking to give birth at one trust.

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New chief executive appointed at ‘outstanding’ trust

2021-06-08T13:48:00+01:00

An ‘outstanding’ trust has announced it has appointed a new chief executive.

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‘Secretive’ safety findings set to be revealed direct to CQC

2021-06-03T04:01:00+01:00

The Care Quality Commission may in future be notified when ‘secretive’ external reviews have looked at patient safety issues within trusts.

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Chief executive of ‘outstanding’ trust to step down after more than a decade

2021-03-31T09:10:00+01:00

The chief executive of an “outstanding” trust is to retire this autumn after 11 years in the post.