All articles by Alison Moore – Page 51
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HSJ Local
Nursing director moves trust to be chief executive
APPOINTMENT: The director of nursing at Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust is to take over as chief executive of a neighbouring organisation.
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Supplements
HSJ Top Chief Executives 2016
HSJ’s third annual list celebrates the NHS leaders whose contributions and vision stand out in challenging times.
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HSJ Local
Trusts offer nurses higher grade shifts to skirt agency cap
WORKFORCE: Nurses at some trusts are being offered shifts paid a grade higher than the job they are doing to get around the agency cap, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ Local
Report criticises ambulance chief over controversial pilot scheme
The chief executive of South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust has come under pressure after leaked documents suggest he took the “ultimate decision” to delay ambulances in a controversial pilot project.
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HSJ Local
Patient transport to go to private providers despite union protests
STRUCTURE: A major transfer of patient transport services to private providers will go ahead on 1 April, commissioners have said, despite unions calling for a three month delay.
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HSJ Local
CCG chief moves to trust nursing director role
APPOINTMENT: The chief officer of a financially struggling clinical commissioning group is to become interim nursing and midwifery director at North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ Local
North West chief executive joins Brighton trust for 12 months
APPOINTMENT: The chief executive of Pennine Acute Trust is to move to the south coast on a secondment expected to last for up to a year.
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HSJ Local
Community hospitals could close under CCG's plans
STRUCTURE: Five community hospitals in Surrey could have services changed, and two could close, under plans drawn up by their clinical commissioning group.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex maternity services switch to Kent trust
RECONFIGURATION: Maternity services in part of east Sussex are to transfer to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust in Kent.
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HSJ Local
Sussex trust’s deficit forecast sinks
FINANCE: East Sussex Healthcare Trust has increased its predicted deficit by a third after losses soared in the first nine months of the financial year.
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient involvement: the devil is in the decisions
Shared decision making is a worthy ideal but hard to do consistently. What makes it difficult and how can these barriers be removed, asked an HSJ roundtable. By Alison Moore
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HSJ Local
Kent chief executive joins Camden trust
APPOINTMENT: Angela McNab has been appointed as the new chief executive of Camden and Islington Foundation Trust and will take up the post in April.
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HSJ Local
Medway finance interim leaves as deficit hits £42m
Interim finance director Tim Bolot leaves Medway FT after 18 months Trust recorded £42m in-year deficit in December Darrenn Cattell appointed as new interim finance director WORKFORCE: The highly paid interim director of finance at Medway Foundation Trust has left – as the trust heads towards a deficit ...
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HSJ Local
FTs agree to push ahead with merger
STRUCTURE: Two Surrey trusts could merge as early as the summer after their boards decided to press ahead with revised plans.
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HSJ Local
Ambulances may be diverted from failing trust
ACUTE CARE: Medway Foundation Trust could see some blue light ambulances sent to another hospital in response to public concern.
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HSJ Local
Kent A&E faces downgrade
ACUTE CARE: Emergency services at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital could be downgraded because of concerns that trainee doctors being left to cope with potentially seriously ill surgical patients.
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HSJ Local
Virgin Care wins Kent community contract
Virgin Care wins £18m a year, seven year contract to provide community services in Kent Incumbent Kent Community Health claims it scored higher on quality in assessment process Commissioners say “Virgin Care represents best opportunity to improve adult community services” COMMERICAL: Virgin Care has won a contract to ...
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HSJ Local
Medway remains in special measures as regulators consider next steps
REGULATION: Medway Foundation Trust is set to remain in special measures while regulators consider “the best option to improve services” after it was again rated “inadequate”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Roundtable: the future of the FT model
Our experts debate the future of foundation trusts