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NewsParents and babies turned away from ‘exceptionally busy’ unit
Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust was forced to limit access to neonatal intensive care at the weekend due to exceptional demand.
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HSJ LocalUPDATED: Downgraded trust’s CEO describes ‘hugely taxing’ effort to balance safety with collaboration
A long-serving CEO has described the “hugely taxing” task for trust leaders to balance internal patient safety risks with wider system partnership work during the pandemic.
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NewsCovid admissions more than doubled in two regions during October
Hospital admissions of covid positive patients more than doubled in two regions last month as national bed occupancy reached levels not seen since early March.
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NewsLeak reveals hour-long ambulance delays have quadrupled in 12 months
Ambulance handover delays lasting more than 60 minutes have quadrupled compared to this time last year, according to internal NHS data.
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NewsCQC warning notice served on ‘inadequate’ emergency department
An acute trust has been served with a warning notice by the regulator after failing to make improvements to its already ‘inadequate’ emergency department.
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NewsFast-track system will tackle medicines shortage
Medicines and medical goods which are at risk of shortages will be transported to the UK ‘within days’ through a new international transport system, the government has announced.
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NewsJavid: elective recovery plan due this month, but no workforce strategy until spring
An elective recovery plan will be published in the coming weeks and a 15-year workforce plan for the NHS and social care workforce will ‘hopefully’ be ready by spring, the health secretary told MPs today.
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NewsExclusive: Trusts told to ‘urgently’ review mortuary security
NHS England has written to all trusts and told them to ‘urgently’ review the security of their mortuaries, including ensuring all doors are swipe-card controlled and that the units have comprehensive CCTV coverage.
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News‘Climate of fear’ faces staff who voice bullying concerns at major trust
A major trust’s Freedom To Speak Up Guardian has warned that a failure to address employees’ concerns about alleged bullying and long-standing ‘dysfunctional behaviours’ is damaging confidence and resulting in the loss of high-quality staff.
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Trust warns it could lose junior doctors
An acute trust is warning that some of its junior doctors could be withdrawn, putting patient safety at risk.
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NewsBMA chief steps down amid row over GP appointments
The chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee is to step down a year after being re-elected.
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NewsMurder suspect sexually abused corpses in hospital mortuaries for extended period
Police who searched the home of a hospital worker arrested over the killings of two women found videos and photographs showing him sexually abusing female corpses in two hospital mortuaries, a court was told.
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NewsTrusts spending £1m+ a year on settlement deals with gagging clauses
Trusts are still spending at least £1m a year on settlement agreements with staff containing ‘gagging clauses’, despite a crackdown on these conditions in recent years, HSJ research reveals.
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NewsGovernment seeks ‘critical friend’ chair to hold NHS England accountable
The government is seeking a new chair for NHS England who will be a ‘critical friend’, hold the organisation to account, and nurture links with the pharma industry.
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NewsThree trusts fall back into ‘improvement programme’
Three trusts whose struggling maternity departments were supported and supposedly improved by a national safety programme have since fallen back into the scheme.
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NewsChildren’s intensive care at near full national occupancy amid rising RSV
A senior doctor has warned that paediatric intensive care units are ‘as pressured as I can ever recall’ – despite the absence of cold weather, which typically leads to higher demand levels.
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NewsICS chief nurse appointed as trust CEO
An acute trust in London has appointed the region’s chief nursing officer as its new chief executive.
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NewsRevealed: ICSs which had the biggest rises in face-to-face GP appointments
There was an increase in the share of GP appointments conducted face to face in September, according to new NHS Digital figures.
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NewsNHS Providers conference moves online
The annual NHS Providers conference will no longer take place in person and will be held online instead, the organisation has said.
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NewsNHSE is ‘pussyfooting around’ race strategy amid ‘wokery media storm’, says lead
NHS England is ‘pussyfooting’ around the release of a new workforce race equality strategy amid a “media storm around ‘wokery’,” the lead of the programme has said.