All HSJ Local articles – Page 70
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Four deaths linked to ambulance delays
A coroner is probing four deaths – including one of a month old baby – which all occurred this year and all involved delayed responses from an ambulance trust in special measures.
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Chief of £700m trust with 'outstanding' leadership to leave UK
The chief executive of a £700m-income acute trust has announced she is leaving for a new job in Canada.
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Hospital trust begins search to replace sacked chief executive
A headhunting company has been hired to find a new leader for one of the country’s largest teaching hospitals after its previous chief executive was sacked.
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Exclusive: Trust directors blew the whistle over chief executive
A leaked document obtained by HSJ has revealed senior executives at Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust blew the whistle to NHS Improvement over serious concerns relating to trust chief executive David Allison and chair Michael Carr.
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More than 23,000 patients impacted by eye appointments backlog
A teaching trust is struggling to see a massive backlog of ophthalmology patients waiting for follow up appointments.
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Troubled CCG sacked finance staff for 'approving unauthorised pay rises'
A clinical commissioning group sacked two accountants after they were found to have signed off unauthorised pay increases.
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Long-serving hospital chief quits with 'immediate effect'
The chief executive of Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust, David Allison, has left the post with immediate effect, HSJ has learned.
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Trust seeks £15m DH support as deficit forecast balloons
A trust in financial special measures is to seek up to £15m of working capital support from the Department of Health after its planned deficit quadrupled.
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New chief executive for finance investigation trust
A new chief executive has been appointed to a London hospital trust that recently had an investigation into its financial governance.
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Trust remains in special measures despite rating upgrade
A West Midlands trust has managed to improve its quality rating from inadequate to requires improvement but remains in special measures.
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Hospital trusts target merger in 2019
The two acute trusts in Liverpool will appoint an interim joint board by the middle of next year, and aim to formally merge by April 2019.
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Trust appoints permanent chief executive after two year wait
A struggling acute trust has appointed a substantive chief executive after being run by interims for more than two years.
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Trust selected as accountable care 'integrator' for county
Worcestershire commissioners have chosen a community and mental health trust to be an “integrator” for accountable care across the county.
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Trusts across STPs hope to merge by spring 2018
Two trusts in neighbouring sustainability and transformation partnerships have confirmed they aim to merge in early 2018, following the outcome of a review by the Competition and Markets Authority.
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Outstanding trust loses £16m contract to charity
An outstanding rated trust has failed in its bid to renew a five year health and wellbeing contract in Bedfordshire.
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New Southern Health boss says staff retention is top priority
Tackling staff retention is among the biggest priorities for the new chief executive of a scandal hit community and mental health trust.
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Review finds 'significant issues and risks' around trust's IT infrastructure
A major acute trust’s IT systems, including a system introduced in 2015 to “revolutionise” its patient records, are set to be overhauled and replaced in the new year.
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Council to become 'strategic commissioner for all healthcare' in county
Cornwall Council is set to take over the functions of Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group as part of the development of an accountable care system.
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Hole in CCGs' finances after bed closures abandoned
A plan to close 100 beds in an acute trust has not been implemented – leaving a hole in clinical commissioning groups’ budgets for this financial year.
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Former NHS England director hired to support health economy over winter
A former NHS England regional director has been called in to help a troubled health economy with winter pressures.