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CQC chief admits ‘we’ve lost your trust’ and announces more inspections
The Care Quality Commission’s new chief executive has admitted the regulator “got things wrong” during the rollout of its new inspection regime and announced an increase in the number of assessments it carries out.
CEO of deaths inquiry trust says ‘too much secrecy’ in past
The CEO of a trust subject to an inquiry into mental health deaths has claimed the organisation has “moved forward” from a defensive and secretive culture to being more open with patients and their families.
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
New chief for trust seeking hospital rebuild
A new chief executive has been announced for a trust with major plans to rebuild a hospital in the East of England.
ICS leader tells Streeting ‘use us to test radical reforms’
Former Labour health and social care secretary Patricia Hewitt has urged the new government to select a group of integrated care systems as “testbeds” for radically different ways of funding and delivering health and social care.
‘Likely’ supplier for ‘first of its kind’ EPR revealed
An integrated care board has named Oracle Health as the “likely” supplier of an electronic patient record that will be the first to be used across acute, mental and health services.
ICBs locked in dispute over emergency care funding
An integrated care board has accused a neighbouring ICB of demanding too much money for services provided to patients accessing care outside its boundaries.
Threefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed
Patients trying to reach their GP are almost three times as likely to fail to get through in the worst-performing integrated care systems than the best, according to analysis of new annual figures.
Longest-serving acute trust CEO steps down
The NHS’s longest-serving general acute trust chief executive has announced she is stepping down after more than 20 years.
Long waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target
The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.
Revealed: The trusts with the longest discharge delays
Patients are waiting over two weeks in hospital after their “ready for discharge” date at some trusts – more than double the average delay, according to new NHS England data.
Streeting orders ‘independent investigation’ into NHS performance
The government has commissioned former minister, surgeon and academic Lord Ara Darzi to carry out an independent review of NHS performance.
Former Blair aide to chair teaching trust
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Labour peer and former top Number 10 adviser Baroness Sally Morgan as its next chair.
RCN names general secretary and CEO
The Royal College of Nursing has appointed Professor Nicola Ranger as its general secretary and chief executive.
Two experts join DHSC to lead 10-year reform plan
Two health policy experts are joining government to help draw up a 10-year plan for health.
Trust to take on 2,500 long-waiters after buying private hospital
A trust that recently bought a small private hospital is to take on 2,500 long-waiters from across its integrated care system.
Former minister joins Streeting’s team
Two new health and social care ministers, who previously held roles in the shadow team, have been announced by the new government.
Ambulance handover delays still harming tens of thousands each month
Tens of thousands of patients are still suffering harm from delays in ambulance handovers to emergency departments, despite a concerted effort to tackle the problem, figures seen by HSJ indicate.
Transfusion never events just ‘tip of iceberg’ at troubled trust
Fourteen never events recorded at University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust’s transfusion service were the “tip of an iceberg”, an external review has concluded.
Troubled ICS diverting 400 electives each week under new model
One of England’s most challenged systems is diverting around 400 patients a week, mostly long waiters, away from its largest trust towards private hospitals and neighbouring NHS providers, after setting up a new “coordination centre”.
Supermarket exec moves to DHSC
Regulator has ‘dysfunctionality at every level’, finds review
Streeting tells NHSE and DHSC to ‘work as one team’ and air ‘competing views’
Former NHS manager appointed health minister
Chair of £3bn trusts stands down
Trust ‘forced out’ senior doctor who raised safety concerns
‘The NHS is broken’ says new health and social care secretary
Pathology deal extended with cyber attack provider
Trust divided up between neighbours
Former chief constable named chair of trust
Units rated ‘inadequate’ after inspectors report racism among staff
Biggest ever fall in maternal smoking after NHS prevention scheme expanded
Exclusive: Trusts forced to dismiss overseas staff shortly after hiring them
Trust hope to declare infection outbreak over next week
Interim regional directors named by NHSE
Trust hit by strike over backpay dispute
‘Ludicrous’ expectation pushes trusts to plan savings of up to 9%
Income soars at backlog catch-up firms
Virtual wards growth stalls in 2024
Major hospital trust to share chair with neighbour
Interim CEO steps down after one day
Ministers sitting on 26 requests to intervene in service reconfigurations
Exclusive: Streeting has ‘total confidence’ in Amanda Pritchard
Labour expects trusts to pay ‘time and a half’ to staff delivering ‘40,000 extra appointments’
Regulator defends interim chief over race discrimination concerns
Exclusive: Price cut will extend long waits, NHSE warned
Trust’s private income up 44% in a year
Midwives call women in labour ‘Asian princesses’ amid ‘hostile’ environment fears
Trusts agree staff rebanding deal after year-long dispute
Trust in legal dispute over multimillion pound procurement deal
1,300 trust staff secure ‘special leave’ in lieu of covid bonus
Corridor care ‘must not be the norm’, NHSE warns trusts
Exclusive: CQC admits it is failing to keep patients safe
Lack of supplier ‘competition’ driving up costs of ‘new hospitals’
Trust chief executive moves to ICB
Ex-M&S boss to chair new £2.4bn hospital group
NHSE to monitor ‘cyber vulnerabilities’ in NHS suppliers
NHSE director to step down after seven months
CQC chief executive announces sudden departure
Trusts plead for national help with surge in long waiters