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NewsRevealed: Staff must now pay to park at five in six hospitals
Only around 15 per cent of England’s 140 acute and specialist trusts are still offering free car parking for staff, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsIT system which sparked safety alert dropped by 13 trusts
More than a dozen trusts have changed their maternity IT system – or are in the process of doing so – following a national patient safety alert.
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NewsTrusts offered up to £4m to make last-ditch attempt on A&E target
NHS England has confirmed new financial incentives for trusts to deliver strong performance against the four-hour emergency target this month.
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NewsICB pauses work on new stroke unit after ‘assurance’ concerns
A decade-long bid to establish a hyper-acute stroke unit has been delayed further after commissioners raised “assurance” concerns.
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NewsFire risk discovered at PFI hospital
An acute trust is facing years of disruption after discovering parts of its building – including cladding – pose a potential fire safety risk.
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NewsRevealed: Official data masking long waits for the sickest patients
Several trusts are failing to admit their sickest emergency patients in a timely fashion, despite performing well in official waiting time statistics, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust reviewing 31,000 patients ‘lost’ by IT system
A trust has had to re-examine the cases of more than 31,000 patients after they were automatically and wrongly discharged from its care because they did not have another appointment within the next six months.
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NewsMinisters 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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NewsAround 20 trusts ‘still without electric vehicle charging points’
Around 20 trusts have not yet installed any electric vehicle charging points on their sites, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsTrust’s chief operating officer gets top job
The chief operating officer of a small district general hospital has been promoted to the chief executive role.
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NewsA&E promoted from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’
The Care Quality Commission has improved the rating of a long-struggling A&E from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’, as part of a system-wide inspection of urgent and emergency services
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HSJ LocalReconfiguration greenlighted by Javid faces 12-month delay
A contentious reconfiguration of stroke services which has already suffered years of delays now faces a further setback, after commissioners declared another review of the scheme.
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News‘Outstanding’ trust appoints new chief executive
An ‘outstanding’ London trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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NewsTrust complains of ‘very harsh’ exclusion from national costing report
Fourteen trusts have had their financial data excluded from a national survey of spending due to accounting errors, in a process that one described as ‘very harsh’.
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NewsTrust calls in outside help after mortality rate rises
A trust has said it ‘cannot fully explain’ a high mortality rate which has led it to seek support from intelligence firm Dr Foster and a royal college.
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NewsPatients left waiting after specialist trust closed outpost centre 20 miles away
Scores of patients have been left waiting more than a year for treatment and hundreds more making lengthy journeys, after a specialist foundation trust closed its outpost treatment centre based in another trust 20 miles away.
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NewsHospital hosts others’ surgeons so cancer ops can go ahead
A specialist trust has freed up 29 theatre sessions a week so cancer surgery from nearby providers can continue during the covid pandemic.
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NewsUpdated: Hospital declared it may ‘refuse critical care’ as ‘overwhelmed’ by covid
A hospital in the South East today declared a level of critical care alert meaning that it may be forced into ‘refusal or withdrawal of critical care due to resource limitation’ because it has been ‘overwhelmed’ — but later claimed it was an ”administrative error”.
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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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NewsFour trusts cancel planned operations as covid pressures mount
All non-urgent elective operations are being postponed for at least two weeks in a health system still seeing significant and growing pressure from coronavirus.