All articles by Annabelle Collins – Page 6
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NewsICB to lose another leader
An integrated care board in the Midlands is facing more leadership churn as its interim chief executive has announced she will retire this summer.
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HSJ Local‘Fragile’ IT blamed for critical incidents and patient harm
Outdated clinical IT systems at a large Midlands hospital trust are harming patients and causing delayed diagnoses and cancelled appointments, its CEO has admitted.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The fall of an NHS giant
On this episode, we unpick the ongoing tensions between leaders and senior doctors at one of the biggest trusts in England.
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NewsCost and safety concerns hamper crisis care
Most integrated care boards report a lack of funding is hampering the NHS’s efforts to better respond to mental health crisis incidents, rather than requiring a police response.
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NewsMinisters risk ‘screwing’ mental health, warns Stevens
The former chief executive of NHS England has warned mental health services will be “screwed” if the government does not renew its commitment to the mental health investment standard.
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NewsNo pay rises for failing NHS leaders, pledges Streeting
Trust and system leaders who fail to meet performance or financial targets will not receive pay rises, Wes Streeting will tell the NHS Providers conference this week.
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CEO InterviewCEO interview: Ify Okocha, chief executive, Oxleas Foundation Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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HSJ LocalICS admits ‘doubts’ it can fix decade-old deficit by 2026
A health system says its decade-old financial deficit is “hampering” its ability to tackle inequalities, after NHS England ordered it to sign legal “undertakings” to improve.
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HSJ LocalNHSE quizzing trust’s staff over serious culture and safety concerns
NHS England and commissioners are visiting a mental health trust’s services to ask its staff about concerns over safety, communication, and culture, HSJ has learned.
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News'Unmatched recovery' as trust exits highest NHSE intervention
A major trust has declared its recovery from one of the biggest elective backlogs in the NHS as unrivalled nationally, as it became the first to leave NHS England’s “tier 1” group for emergency care, elective and cancer care.
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NewsNHSE asks systems to eliminate longest-waiters by next year
NHS England has tasked systems and providers with ending or significantly reducing 104-week waits for community mental health services by March 2025, following worsening performance.
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HSJ LocalICBs 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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News‘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 BriefingMental 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 LocalEx-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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NewsTrust 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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NewsICB 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 BriefingMental 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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NewsTrusts 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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NewsLeak 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.