All Acute care articles – Page 14
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HSJ LocalStruggling trust hit with CQC warning notice
A scandal-hit trust has been issued a warning notice over staffing levels in medical care.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsWatch: How Birmingham and Manchester developed the longest elective waits
HSJ has tracked acute trusts’ average waiting times since the start of the pandemic, revealing how the providers with the longest and shortest waits has changed.
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NewsRevealed: 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.
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NewsTrust CEOs’ strike warning: ‘If anyone gets sick, we’re stuffed’
The leaders of acute trusts across England have told HSJ the second junior doctor’s strike ‘feels very different’ from the first stoppage, and services are much more vulnerable because of ‘thinner’ consultant coverage.
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CommentHow ICSs can arrest the decline in the nation's health
Axel Heitmueller, Martin Carkett, Paul Blakeley explain integrated care systems’ part in arresting the decline in the nation’s health.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ‘Gently persuading’ integration
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by primary and community care correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsUrgent community services must become ‘business as usual’, says NHS England
Urgent community response services are growing across England – despite significant variation in referrals – but must be maintained all year rather than acting as ‘just a short-term fix for winter’, NHS England’s community director has said.
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NewsExclusive: NHS to miss April deadline to end 78-week waits by around 11k patients
National NHS forecasts are predicting there will be around 11,000 patients on the elective waiting list who have been waiting longer than 78 weeks at the start of April, the target for clearing this cohort, HSJ understands.
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CommentShadow boards can help address the challenge of leadership diversity
Elliot Howard-Jones, shares his views about why a Shadow Board was created, bringing together staff from a range of different ethnic backgrounds
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HSJ LocalStretched A&E staff ‘rarely saw exec team’, review finds
Trust executives and senior managers have been criticised by a former national director for their lack of support for an under-pressure A&E.
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NewsNew number one trust CEO revealed
The overarching theme of HSJ’s 2023 ranking of the NHS’s leading provider trust chief executives is one of change. Twenty-four of the names in the top 50 are new when compared to the 2022 list, although some have appeared in the rankings during previous years. In association with ...
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NewsFormer NHSE chief named chair of two more trusts
A former NHS chief executive is taking the helm at two more acute trusts in the West Midlands, it has been announced.
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NewsPatients ‘unaware of strike’ as some hospitals report ‘busiest day’
Acute trusts are reporting high demand at emergency departments despite junior doctor strikes, which in some cases threaten to lead to overflowing wards and long ambulance handover delays.
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News‘Substantial’ leadership and behavioural issues at major trust, review finds
A review into allegations of bullying and poor culture at University Hospitals Birmingham has revealed “substantial” concerns about culture, behaviour, leadership and governance, a council report reveals.
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NewsNHSE admits elective impact as trust chiefs warn of dangers of doctors’ strike
Ministers and NHS England have not sufficiently warned the public of the risk to patient harm posed by next week’s junior doctors strike, some of the NHS’s most senior trust chief executives have warned.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsThe best and worst acute trusts to work at, according to staff
Which trusts receive the highest recommendations from staff as a place to work? HSJ has analysed the full results of today’s 2022 NHS Staff Survey for general acute and acute/community trusts.
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HSJ PartnersUrgent action is needed to tackle rising inequalities in respiratory care
When it comes to respiratory diseases, rising inequalities are a source of concern for the NHS, and inequalities persist when it comes to care and treatment
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NewsNine groups charged with ‘acceleration’ of provider collaboratives by NHSE
NHS England has chosen nine provider collaboratives to take the lead in ‘accelerating’ the development of the approach across the service.