All BARTS HEALTH TRUST articles – Page 3
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Single ‘group’ team will run seven hospitals
Two major trusts have announced they will move to a single executive team and board over the next 18 months, across the seven hospitals they operate.
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ICS calls in turnaround director after plunging £70m into the red
An integrated care system has brought in a financial turnaround director after racking up an unplanned deficit of more than £70m in the first five months of the 2023-24 financial year.
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Every acute in ICS to use the same EPR after £44m deal
One of the last trusts in London to move away from paper records has named Oracle Cerner as its preferred electronic patient record supplier in a 10-year deal worth £44m.
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Revealed: 60pc of trusts have a ‘first-time’ CEO
Nearly two-thirds of trusts have a ‘first-time’ chief executive, while one-third of the sector’s CEOs have been in their current post for 18 months or less, following a period of remarkable turnover since the covid crisis.
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Ministers name 30 trusts receiving share of £250m fund
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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‘National’ action to curb huge jump in consultant overtime rates being considered by NHSE
NHS England is considering a national response to the increased overtime rates charged by medical consultants - especially those undertaken during the ongoing junior doctors strikes
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: How much harm in London?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Two trusts added to NHSE list of providers at ‘high risk’
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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London gives way on consultant strike cover pay
London trusts have been told they can pay almost triple the usual rate for consultant cover during this week’s junior doctors’ strike.
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Medic who stood to be MP appointed hospital CEO
A trust has appointed a new hospital site ‘chief executive’, whose predecessor stood down after less than two years.
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Trust gives in on consultant overtime rates
The third biggest trust in the NHS has agreed to increase consultant overtime rates ahead of next week’s junior doctors strike, despite a regional attempt to hold the line, citing patient safety and the need to treat cancer patients, HSJ can reveal.
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Exclusive: Leaked data reveals ‘distressing’ scale of ‘unacceptable’ A&E waits
One in five cases in which patients attend A&E needing mental healthcare are spending more than 12 hours in the department – at least double the rate of patients with physical health problems.
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NHSE ploughed ahead with PbR return despite major trusts’ objections
NHS England pressed ahead with a controversial return to payment by results despite strong opposition from some of the service’s largest trusts, HSJ can reveal.
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Less than a quarter of new hospital ‘enabling’ funds received by trusts
Less than a quarter of the funding requested for crucial preparation works for the government’s ‘new hospitals programme’ has so far been received, trusts have told HSJ.
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Cost of new hospital now triple funding allocation says CEO
The chief executive of a trust waiting for a new hospital said the cost of the project is now likely to be triple the allocation that was announced by the government.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Where’s the harm?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Exclusive: Trusts abandon renewable electricity commitment
Around half of the largest trusts are not buying all their electricity from renewable sources despite a national requirement to do so, as prices of this type of energy rocket, HSJ understands.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Catastrophic failure, but not the trust you’d expect
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Surviving winter
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target
Only one in five trusts has reached the level of digitisation required by 2025 – more than three years after the target was set, tech chiefs have revealed.