All Cheshire and Merseyside ICS articles – Page 4
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HSJ LocalTwo trusts move to shared leadership model
The leadership of a specialist trust in Liverpool is set to be taken over by the chief executive of the city’s main acute provider.
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NewsCQC under scrutiny for praising trust during Letby murder spree
The Care Quality Commission has come under scrutiny for its praise of Countess of Chester Hospital during the period when neonatal nurse Lucy Letby has been found to have murdered several babies.
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NewsRevealed: How trust execs resisted concerns over Letby
Trust bosses questioned the integrity of doctors who first raised concerns about a nurse who has now been convicted of murdering seven babies, and forced the medics to apologise to her, an HSJ investigation has established.
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HSJ LocalDoctors accuse trust of ‘disrespect’ after ‘massive’ underpayment of wages
A row has broken out between a teaching trust and the British Medical Association after it emerged more than hundred doctors had been underpaid by ‘massive’ amounts over the last decade.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts offering ‘BMA rates’ to doctors covering strikes
Around a quarter of acute trusts paid consultants premium rates to provide strike cover during the first two junior doctors’ walkouts, broadly matching the pay levels demanded by the British Medical Association’s ‘rate card’, HSJ research has found.
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NewsRevealed: First ICS digital maturity ratings
HSJ can reveal the first ratings given to every integrated care system for the ‘digital maturity’ of its NHS providers.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: NHSE’s handling of Christie whistleblowing case faces judicial review
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2023: Supporting Elective Recovery Through Digital
WINNER: Cheshire and Merseyside ICS and C2-Ai: Globally Unique AI-Backed System Supporting Prioritisation Based on Clinical Risk, Reducing Emergency Admissions by 8 Per Cent and saving 125 Bed Days Per 1,000 Patients
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NewsICSs most ‘off target’ on recovery named by NHS England
Seven integrated care systems and one ambulance trust have been placed in ‘intensive support’ because of their performance against urgent and emergency care metrics.
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NewsRevealed: the ICSs that refused to set breakeven plans
More than half the integrated care systems in the north of England have refused to agree a balanced financial plan, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local‘No new suppliers’ promises ICS as four trusts eye EPR purchases
A major acute provider will make a second attempt at procuring a new electronic patient record, while three neighbouring trusts are planning to launch a separate tender process, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalEx-CEO sues trust and accuses chair of ‘bullying’
An acute trust is being sued for unfair dismissal by its former chief executive.
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NewsRevealed: the tenfold regional difference in access to GP records
Fewer than one in 10 GP practices offers patients access to their records in several areas of England, with significant variation across England, six months ahead of a new deadline.
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HSJ LocalCEO who quit ahead of damning CQC report given new role at trust-hosted agency
The former chief executive of a major trust who stepped down after a CQC inspection rated its leadership ‘inadequate’ has been employed as a director of an NHS audit agency hosted by the provider.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Trusts get creative as financial screws tighten
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Manchester must get a grip on electives
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HSJ LocalEx-No10 adviser to chair trust
A former council chief executive and Downing Street adviser has been appointed chair of a small acute trust in Cheshire.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Doing the right thing
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News£2bn ICS debt from ‘CCG screw-ups’ should be written off, says Confed
NHS England has been urged to write off £2.2bn in historic debts that integrated care systems could be asked to repay.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Magna Carta to ‘mandated support’
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