All Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust articles – Page 2
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Trust warned by CQC over staff sleeping on duty
A mental health trust has received a warning from the Care Quality Commission over staff sleeping on duty and other serious concerns.
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Government launches national safety review after scandals
The mental health minister has ordered a rapid review into patient safety in mental health inpatient settings across England following several recent safety scandals.
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Deaths inquiry thrown into doubt as only 11 staff agree to give evidence
The chair of an inquiry into hundreds of deaths at a mental health trust has revealed she may not be able to deliver it in its current form following a ‘hugely disappointing’ lack of staff coming forward to give evidence.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Major change and challenges for 2023
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Awards 2022: Workforce Initiative of the Year
Patnered by WINNER: East London FT, Essex Partnership University FT and Sheffield Health and Social Care FT Clinical Associate in Psychology: An Apprenticeship Model for a Future Sustainable and Diverse Psychology Workforce
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Ministers’ big call on a public inquiry
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Edenfield and Essex scandals are not one-offs
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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Dozens of referrals for vulnerable mothers refused due to ‘lack of beds’
Dozens of referrals to specialist care for women with serious mental health problems during or after pregnancy are being turned down because no bed was available, data collected by HSJ reveals.
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HSJ Local
Trust failed for months to give vital medication to vulnerable inmate
A troubled NHS trust failed for months to give vital medication to a prison inmate who had a long-standing diagnosis of HIV, an inquest has found.
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Inquiry into trusts’ care failures probes 1,500 deaths
The first ever public inquiry to cover mental health is now probing nearly 1,500 fatalities linked to services in a single county, the senior psychiatrist leading it has revealed, saying it will ‘hold systems’ feet to the fire’ over care failures.
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Coroner warns of ‘real risk of future deaths’ at provider facing government probe
A coroner is warning that if systemic problems within mental healthcare at a troubled provider are not addressed there is a ‘real risk of future deaths’, new reports sent to the trust and NHS England reveal.
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Care increasingly disrupted by building failures as NHS repair bill grows
Patient care is being disrupted by increasing numbers of infrastructure failures amid a continued rise in the cost of fixing outdated and potentially dangerous parts of the NHS estate, new figures show.
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Troubled provider sees ‘outstanding’ services downgraded to ‘inadequate’
A mental health trust already subject to an inquiry into a string of adult patient deaths has had its rating for children’s wards downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate”.
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Trust 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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HSJ Local
Flagship public-private alliance faces major delays and row over ‘power and money’
A £440m community services contract was due to be handed over to a new provider alliance this month, but the partners have failed to agree contractual terms and predicted it could take a further 18 months to do so.
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Families launch court case in bid for public inquiry into deaths
The Department of Health and Social Care is facing being taken to court over an inquiry it launched into the deaths of dozens of mental health patients in Essex.
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Revealed: The seven trusts getting £6m each for tech improvements
Seven trusts will receive £6m each over the next three years in the second phase of Matt Hancock’s plan to improve IT infrastructure in the health service.
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HSJ Local
NHS partners with Virgin to bag £440m contract
An alliance comprising private firm Virgin and local NHS providers has bagged a £440m contract for community services currently run by a social enterprise.
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HSJ Local
Trust faces prosecution after string of inpatient deaths
A mental health trust in Essex faces prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive after a string of inpatient deaths that began 16 years ago.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2020: System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative
Winner West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Wessex AHSN, Somerset CCG, Kernow CCG: RESTORE2 - right care, right place, right time for care home residents RESTORE2 is a project to support staff in care and nursing homes to proactively recognise and manage physical deterioration in order to improve resident experience and ...
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