All East Midlands articles – Page 6
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NewsWaiting list hits new record high as attention shifts to 65-week breaches
The NHS waiting list hit a record 7.3 million incomplete pathways in March, according to new official data, as trust bosses gear up to clear the circa 95,000 patients who have waited over 65 weeks.
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NewsRevealed: The integrated care partnerships with no public meetings or minutes
Six integrated care systems have not held any public meetings of their ‘partnership’ boards – and nine have not published any ICP meetings or papers – nearly a year after they were set up.
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HSJ LocalCEO who took trust out of special measures to step down
An acute trust CEO has announced he is stepping down from full-time work next year, after a 42-year stint in the NHS.
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NewsSix systems pulled up by NHSE over poor cancer diagnosis performance
NHS England has demanded recovery plans from six systems with a poor record on delivering urgent cancer checks.
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HSJ LocalWarning notice over children’s safety sent to trust
A hospital trust has been served a warning notice over safety issues while its children’s and young people’s services have been rated “inadequate”.
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NewsNew chair will ‘reset group model’ across three trusts
Three Midlands hospital trusts with a combined turnover of more than £2bn are moving to share a single chair, who wants to drive further collaboration and partnership between them, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust CEOs’ strike warning: ‘If anyone gets sick, we’re stuffed’
The leaders of acute trusts across England have told HSJ the second junior doctor’s strike ‘feels very different’ from the first stoppage, and services are much more vulnerable because of ‘thinner’ consultant coverage.
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NewsSecond ICS chief departs
The chief executive of an integrated care system has announced he will retire later this year, becoming only the second ICS chief to depart since they were created.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE halts ‘pioneer’ health centres due to lack of capital
A national plan to build new ‘super’ primary care hubs in six areas has been halted with immediate effect by NHS England because of a lack of capital funding.
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NewsTrust told to pay more than £200k over dementia patient’s death
A hospital trust has been told to pay almost a quarter of a million pounds after pleading guilty to failing to provide safe care to a patient with advanced dementia who fatally injured himself.
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NewsRevealed: £6bn deficit in first cut ICS plans
The draft financial plans submitted by integrated care systems for 2023-24 suggest a budget deficit of around £6bn, multiple sources have told HSJ.
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NewsSupplier’s ‘panic’, not NHSE, to blame for failed £144m contract bid
Human error during a last-minute submission – and not a ‘defective’ procurement portal – caused an IT supplier to miss out on the chance of winning a £144m NHS contract, a High Court judge has ruled.
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HSJ LocalCelebrated service closes six years after opening
The closure of a much-celebrated mental health unit just six years after it opened demonstrates the struggle trusts have faced in utilising new investment into the sector, a local leader said.
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NewsTrust loses ‘unprecedented’ £1m legal challenge against council
An acute trust has lost an ‘unprecedented’ judicial review in which it tried to secure almost £1m from a council to offset the demand pressure from thousands of new homes.
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HSJ LocalTrusts’ chair to leave amid CEO instability
The joint chair of two hospital trusts is to step down, just weeks after the “group” named its third CEO in four months.
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NewsNHSE rejects ‘unacceptable’ ICS deficit
NHS England has expressed ‘significant disappointment’ over the finances of an integrated care system and extended its regime of ‘mandated oversight’.
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NewsTrust receives record fine for maternity care failure
An acute trust has been fined a record sum by the Care Quality Commission for failing to provide safe maternity care, which resulted in the death of a baby after 23 minutes.
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HSJ LocalICS sinks to £35m deficit and asks permission to revise forecast
Lincolnshire’s health system has requested permission from NHS England to report a financial deficit at the end of the year, after warning its budgets will be overspent by £35m by the end of November.
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NewsRevealed: Ambulance waits quadruple in handover hotspots
Ambulance waiting times for stroke and suspected heart attacks have quadrupled in four parts of England since before covid-19 – whereas others have only grown by half – underlining the severe impact of long accident and emergency handovers.
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NewsNumber of covid positive hospital patients stops rising
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals has stopped rising after 30 days.