All articles by Annabelle Collins
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HSJ Local
ICBs locked in dispute over emergency care funding
An integrated care board has accused a neighbouring ICB of demanding too much money for services provided to patients accessing care outside its boundaries.
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‘The NHS is broken’ says new health and social care secretary
Wes Streeting has been named as health and social care secretary — and said talks with junior doctors will begin shortly.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Underfunded and over-reliant
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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HSJ Local
Ex-M&S boss to chair new £2.4bn hospital group
A newly formed “hospital group” has appointed a former Marks and Spencer director as its chair.
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Trust CEO: We only use ‘good’ providers but being ‘choosy’ is difficult
The chief executive of a London trust has said it only sends patients to private providers rated at least “good” by the Care Quality Commission.
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ICB chair resigns after refusing ‘to sign off another cut’
An integrated care board chair has resigned, saying she “did not feel able to sign off on a further cut”, and warning its budget plans required “unacceptable consequences”.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The public care, but what about politicians?
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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Trusts struggling to recruit directors due to ‘workload and pressure’, says outgoing CEO
Trusts are getting fewer applications for CEO and director roles due to “pressures” including a lack of resources, poor “work life balance”, and central scrunity, an outgoing acute chief has said.
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Leak reveals systems planning to cut permanent staff
NHS organisations across two integrated care systems are planning a cut to their total substantive workforce this year, as part of plans to save money.
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NHSE appoints ex-college president to new director role
NHS England has appointed a former royal college president as its first-ever medical director for mental health and neurodiversity.
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NHSE finance chief reveals services exempt from national staffing squeeze
Clinical teams in mental health and maternity services should be exempt from the national squeeze on workforce costs this year, NHS England’s chief financial officer has revealed.
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Surge in patients sent hundreds of miles for care
The number of people sent out of their home area for a mental health bed – in some cases hundreds of miles away – has increased to a five-year high, despite national ambitions to eliminate the practice.
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Four regions still without extra ambulances promised by NHSE
Four regions that successfully bid for dedicated ambulances for mental health patients are still without the specialist vehicles, despite growing concerns the NHS is unable to respond to people in crisis.
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CIO appointed as trust’s chief for two years
A community trust has appointed its chief information and transformation officer as chief executive in a fixed two-year interim capacity, it has announced.
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HSJ Local
Trust appeals to NHSE chiefs over EPR funding fears
An acute trust’s digital chief has raised concerns the £3.4bn tech funding announced in this year’s Budget may not be available for a new system-wide electronic patient record.
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HSJ Local
New acting CEO and chair for trust
An East Midlands trust has announced it has both a new acting chair and chief executive.
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Nurse wins staff shortages whistleblowing case
An NHS trust has lost an employment tribunal case against a nurse who had his shifts cancelled after whistleblowing when a patient was put in seclusion because of staff shortages.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The next big plan
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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Replacement announced for CEO forced to quit through ill-health
Simon Constable is leaving Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust to join University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust as chief executive.
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Focus should be on waiting list size, as well as long waiters says planning guidance
NHS England has told local leaders they must start to focus on reducing the overall size of the elective waiting list and not just the longest waiters.