All HSJ Local articles – Page 78
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HSJ LocalOutstanding 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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HSJ LocalReview 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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HSJ LocalNew 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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HSJ LocalCouncil 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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HSJ LocalHole 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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HSJ LocalFormer 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.
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HSJ LocalNew leader named for five CCGs and STP
A cluster of five London clinical commissioning groups has appointed a single accountable officer.
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HSJ LocalFormer St George's boss appointed trust chief executive
Miles Scott, the former chief executive of St George’s University Hospitals Foundation Trust, has been appointed to run Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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HSJ LocalRevealed: Trust acquires first GP practice
An acute and community trust is set to become the first in its county to acquire a GP practice.
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HSJ LocalStruggling A&E 'feeling increased pressure', warns trust chief
A trust where patients died on trollies last winter is already near full capacity at its main hospital and struggling to maintain safe staffing levels coming into winter.
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HSJ LocalCCG chairs abstain from crunch reconfiguration vote
Three out of the five clinical commissioning group chairs in mid and south Essex abstained from a vote over publishing a consultation on plans to reconfigure local hospital services, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalLegionella found in teaching trust's water system
Eleven water outlets in an East Kent hospital have tested positive for legionella after a patient developed Legionnaire’s disease.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Major London trust chair resigns as trust put into financial special measures
The respected chair of one of the country’s largest trusts has resigned, saying government funding of the NHS left him no choice.
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HSJ LocalNHS England hands down legal directions to island CCG
NHS England has issued legal directions to a clinical commissioning group that is struggling to deliver its savings plan.
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HSJ LocalTrust searches for 'imaginative' estates partner in £100m deal
An integrated foundation trust is looking to partner with a private company for up to 25 years in a bid to unlock capital funding for its future estates plans.
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HSJ LocalNHS trusts forced to find new transport services as firms exit market
London hospital trusts have been forced to bring patient transport services in house or re-tender them as incumbent firms exit the market.
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HSJ LocalClinical chair appointed for biggest CCG merger in the country
Three merging Birmingham and Solihull clinical commissioning groups have appointed local GP Peter Ingham as their new clinical chair.
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HSJ LocalTrust spent £60,000 to find chief executive who left after four months
A teaching hospital trust spent £60,000 with a recruitment firm to recruit a chief executive who left after four months.
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HSJ LocalCCG pushes search for permanent chief into new year
Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group has hired an interim chief executive and will not seek a permanent replacement for the outgoing accountable officer until next year.
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HSJ LocalTrusts consider new pathology hub at university
NHS leaders in Lancashire are hopeful that four acute trusts will agree to consolidate pathology services on a university site in the north of the county, in a project that would cost £31m.