All HSJ Local articles – Page 92
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HSJ LocalSTP lead and long-serving acute chief to step down
Wider Devon STP lead - and long-time chief executive - stands down Angela Pedder retiring after more than 40 years in the NHS CCG chief officer Janet Fitzgerald also resigning for health reasons Angela Pedder, leader of the Devon “success regime” and STP and previously a long-serving acute ...
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HSJ LocalNursing assistant guilty of claiming pay for bogus shifts
A mental health trust has introduced a new rostering system after a nursing assistant claimed for more than £7,600 for bank shifts he did not work.
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HSJ LocalServices set for closure rated 'outstanding'
Specialist mental health services which are due to be closed by NHS England have been rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalTrust reveals why it sacked its chief executive
A hospital trust in the north west has disclosed brief details of the “gross misconduct” which resulted in its chief executive being sacked.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief and STP lead steps down to focus on national role
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Foundation Trust
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Trust cut thousands of patients from waiting lists in 'unsafe' practice
Kettering trust excluded at least 26,000 potential patients from waiting list using “unsafe” data filtering “solely intended” to omit long waits Damning report found RTT performance data has been “fundamentally flawed” since 2006 Trust denies fraud but admits senior managers “failed to act appropriately” A Midlands trust has ...
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HSJ LocalAll A&Es to stay open under proposals for troubled health economy
Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust; Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust; Plymouth Hospitals Trust; Northern Devon Healthcare Trust
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HSJ LocalAcute and mental health trusts to combine leadership teams
Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust, Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust
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HSJ LocalCCG leader appointed director of troubled STP
Simon Whitehouse to be director of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent STP Mr Whitehouse was accountable officer for South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs Staffordshire STP has struggled to recruit a chair and North Midlands trust faces a £119m deficit this year A commissioning leader from the North West has ...
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HSJ LocalLargest ever CCG merger paused for at least a year
The biggest ever proposed clinical commissioning group merger has been paused for at least a year, the three Merseyside CCGs involved have said.
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HSJ LocalOutstanding trust extends overnight urgent care closures
Northumbria Healthcare extends overnight closure of its three urgent care centres for three more months The trust had said the opening hours of the centres would reduce from 24 to 16 hours over the winter period The trust has now extended the overnight closure until September A foundation ...
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HSJ LocalCorrected: Trust cancelled operations to hit financial targets
A trust in the West Midlands cancelled elective operations for three weeks in March in a bid to meet its financial targets set by NHS Improvement.
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HSJ LocalNew NHS-private partnership wins £48m contract
Acute trust forms part of consortium which wins contract CCG “delighted” with integrated nature of group’s bid Recent improvements made to 111 service after ‘inadequate’ rating in 2016 Commissioners have awarded a £48m contract for out of hours GP and 111 services to a consortium of public and ...
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Three trusts set to merge by October
Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust to merge with two other trusts Chief executive Tracy Taylor to lead one of the biggest mental health and community trusts in the country New organisation is expected to be formed by 1 October Three trusts in the West Midlands are set to merge ...
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HSJ LocalTrusts could lose acute beds in stroke services shake-up
Proposal to centralise acute stroke services at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospital George Eliot and South Warwickshire trusts would lose acute beds but gain rehabilitations beds First reconfiguration proposal by STP that is also looking at changes to maternity, paediatrics and A&E services Strokes services in Coventry and ...
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HSJ LocalCCG abandons controversial rationing plan after trust's warning
CCG abandons plans to ration access to hearing aids Rethink came after foundation trust warned plan was “incredibly damaging” Commissioners approve restrictions on procedures of “limited clinical value” Commissioners have abandoned plans to restrict access to hearing aids after a foundation trust warned they could be breaching their ...
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HSJ LocalSeven CCGs consider single leader across STP
Mapped: The changing CCG landscape Seven clinical commissioning groups across London are considering appointing a single accountable officer, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalTribunal rejects clinical manager's race discrimination claim
Employment tribunal rules Peter Hale was not discriminated against on racial grounds and he was not unfairly dismissed Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has a troubled history of race relations Trust has another employment tribunal outstanding with a discrimination claim A senior medical manager has lost his ...
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HSJ LocalSingle leader to be appointed across four CCGs in ACS area
A single leader will be appointed to drive health service commissioning across the greater Nottingham health economy, HSJ has learned.