All BARTS HEALTH TRUST articles – Page 7
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NewsRevealed: the London trusts yet to vaccinate a quarter of their staff
There is a gap of around 30 percentage points in staff uptake of the covid-19 vaccination between different London trusts, according to figures seen by HSJ.
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HSJ LocalNew CEO appointed at northern acute trust
Len Richards will take the helm at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust in October after four years as the chief executive of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Irreparable sight loss
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The biggest job in hospital-land
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsExclusive: Shared chief executive and chair for trusts with £2bn plus turnover
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of more than £2bn will share a chief executive and chair from June, HSJ understands.
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NewsMedway chief executive to join NHS Confederation
The chief executive who is leaving Medway Foundation Trust is to take up a new role at the NHS Confederation.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts pay £15m to Serco in fallout from pathology deal
Two trusts have paid an outsourcing firm £15m to leave the joint venture which has provided their pathology services over the last 10 years, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust with ‘suffocating prohibition on speaking plainly’ loses case against senior manager
A tribunal has ruled a senior manager with a ‘blemish-free’ record was unfairly sacked, with the judge raising concerns about the trust’s ‘policing of language’.
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NewsTribunal ‘astonished’ by trust’s handling of legitimate race discrimination concerns
A children’s nurse who raised legitimate concerns over racial discrimination at a major London trust was suspended and victimised by her managers for doing so, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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News31 Jan update: London and south east set to see low levels of covid hospital admissions by end of Feb
Admissions of covid positive patients in London and the south east are on course to fall to a managable level by the end of February.
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HSJ LocalTrust accused of ‘emotional blackmail’ after asking junior doctors to work unpaid in covid-hit units
London’s largest acute trust has been accused of ‘emotional blackmail’ by suggesting junior doctors could do voluntary shifts in its ‘really short staffed’ critical care unit.
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CommentWhat bereaved relatives told a trust with 1,300 covid deaths
At the peak of the pandemic, Barts Health Trust conducted a survey of bereaved relatives to ask about their experience, with the results offering valuable learnings for providing better bereavement care, write Alison Hill, Jan Annan, Thalia Lajara and Georgios Ketsetzis
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NewsTwo hospitals ‘decanting’ to central London trust amid ‘extreme’ pressures
A pair of major London hospitals are decanting patients to central London sites as the region asks trusts to ‘super surge’ their critical care capacity, HSJ understands.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Medical leaders seek to ‘shame’ private hospitals and their staff into supporting NHS
NHS England and senior clinical leaders in London are ‘profoundly uncomfortable’ that some routine elective care is continuing in private hospitals, while the NHS faces ‘unthinkable’ pressures from coronavirus.
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HSJ LocalLondon’s largest trust reconfigures to give covid-swamped hospitals ‘breathing space’
Barts Health Trust has declared the sickest covid-19 patients along with emergency care and trauma admissions will be seen at the Royal London Hospital to give other hospitals in the group ‘breathing space’.
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NewsRevealed: the nine hospital trusts where covid patients fill at least half the beds
Nine English NHS trusts now have at least half their adult acute beds occupied by covid-positive patients, with admissions still growing in every case.
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NewsExclusive: Leaks reveal record waits for emergency care due to covid pressures
Very long waits for emergency hospital care have surged in London since mid December, due to a rapid rise in covid-19 admissions combined with limited capacity, according to figures leaked to HSJ.
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NewsTrust chief made a dame as NHS staff dominate new year’s honours
Hospital chief executives and senior NHS workers were among those included in the New Year’s Honours list.
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NewsExclusive: Cancer care under threat as NHS loses covid private sector back-up
Cancer surgery in London is under threat as rising covid admissions put pressure on services that no longer have back-up capacity from the independent sector, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCovid infections caught in hospital rise by a third in one week
The number of people likely to have caught covid-19 in NHS hospitals in England has risen by more than a third in the last week.