Latest news – Page 117
-
NewsICS resets decision making to accelerate ‘new model of care’
An integrated care system is creating two new provider collaboratives, overhauling its ‘place’ leadership, and promising to create 16 integrated neighbourhood teams.
-
HSJ Local‘Regular flooding’ and ‘fire risks’ force part-closure of hospital
Inpatient services are set to be transferred out of a large community hospital due to regular flooding, fire safety risks and broken lifts.
-
News‘We’re overwhelming people with efficiency asks’, says NHSE director
Local leaders are likely being ‘overwhelmed’ by centrally driven efficiency programmes, according to an internal NHS England document.
-
News‘Appalled’ nurses ‘more likely to strike’ after doctors deal, warns RCN
The Royal College of Nursing has reacted furiously to news that medical consultants have been offered a new pay deal for 2023-24, saying nurses are now more likely to strike.
-
HSJ LocalTrust seeks compensation after IT crash hits cancer services
An acute trust is seeking compensation from a tech firm after its diagnostic IT suffered major technical problems following a system upgrade.
-
NewsRevealed: Official data masking long waits for the sickest patients
Several trusts are failing to admit their sickest emergency patients in a timely fashion, despite performing well in official waiting time statistics, HSJ can reveal.
-
NewsExclusive: Paramedics unable to work as recruitment outstrips ambulance numbers
Up to 50 ambulance crews are unable to go out on the road in London every day because the service does not have enough vehicles for its increasing workforce, HSJ can reveal.
-
NewsRevealed: The worst trusts for long discharge delays
The trusts with the most patients waiting at least a week after they are ‘ready’ to be discharged can be identified for the first time, following publication of new NHS England data.
-
HSJ LocalTwo ICBs appoint chief executives
Two integrated care boards in the Midlands have made their interim chief executives substantive.
-
NewsNHSE data system ‘may distract from local innovation’, warns ICB chief
Implementing NHS England’s new federated data platform risks ‘distracting’ one of the largest care systems from getting the most out of its existing systems, its leader has warned.
-
HSJ LocalTrust reviews leadership options as CEO leaves for scandal-hit neighbour
A scandal-hit acute trust has appointed the long-serving leader of a specialist provider as its substantive chief executive.
-
NewsICSs told to prepare ‘nuclear’ service cuts as NHSE plays ‘hardball’
Health systems are still struggling to meet their financial plans, despite hundreds of millions being raided from investment budgets to help balance the books.
-
NewsHospital launches social care service to reduce ‘astronomical’ delayed discharges
An acute trust is launching its own social care service to reduce the ‘astronomical’ costs of delayed discharges.
-
NewsLetby inquiry to seek rapid change to NHS services and culture despite legal delays
The public inquiry into the Lucy Letby murders will seek changes to NHS services and culture next year despite the fact that formal hearings are likely to be delayed until the autumn.
-
NewsUS firm awarded £330m national data contract
Palantir, the controversial US firm, has been awarded the £330m-plus contract to provide the national federated data platform to the NHS for up to seven years.
-
NewsExclusive: Dozens of new ambulances delayed after supplier goes bust
The delivery of more than 100 new ambulances to the NHS could be delayed ahead of winter after the company paid to supply them went into administration, HSJ has learned.
-
NewsTrust admits errors over dispute with chair
A hospital trust whose chair quit after publicly raising serious concerns about the chief executive has admitted shortcomings in how it handled the situation.
-
NewsExclusive: Minority of trusts declare benefits as NHSE presses on with £480m data service contract
Only eight of 36 NHS trusts said to be piloting NHS England’s controversial new data platform have been willing to cite any specific benefits from it, HSJ has found.
-
NewsFormer college president made interim trust chief
England’s first ambulance trust chief paramedic and quality officer has been appointed as the interim chief executive at South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust.
-
NewsExclusive: National tech budget slashed by £350m to plug deficits
The health service in England is cutting more than £300m from central tech budgets to fill local financial gaps at trusts and commissioners, HSJ has learned.