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Exclusive: Hospitals 70pc more full than April
There are 70 per cent more people in hospital now as when England was approaching its spring covid-19 peak, and twice as many non-covid patients, according to official figures leaked to HSJ.
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Ambulance trust stands down major incident
An ambulance trust stood down a major incident this evening as it was swamped with calls.
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Trust chief steps down to join national covid testing team
The chief executive of a hospital trust is standing down to join national work on testing for covid-19, HSJ understands.
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CQC orders staffing and safety improvements at trust scrutinised over deaths
A mental health trust has been told to make ‘urgent improvements’ by regulators after a fourth inpatient death occurred with similar themes to three other patients dying within 12 months.
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Trust ‘could have avoided four never events’ if it had acted on alert
A trust which had four ‘never events’ where patients were connected to air rather than an oxygen supply could have avoided them if it had been more proactive when a national patient safety alert was sent out several years earlier, a report has found.
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Exclusive: Watchdog investigating national rise in stillbirths during covid first wave
A national review has been launched by safety investigators because of an increased number of stillbirths during the first wave of covid, HSJ can reveal.
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Revealed: Eight hospital trusts with more covid patients than in the spring
Eight hospital trusts have surpassed the level of covid-19 patients in general acute beds which they recorded in the spring peak, according to HSJ’s analysis of NHS England data.
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McKinsey review of national structure to cost nearly £1m
Consultants McKinsey have had their contract to help review national leadership of technology in the NHS extended, with the total cost approaching £1m, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: Doctors accuse trust of caving to political pressure to reopen ‘unsafe’ A&E
Senior clinicians say their trust board has caved into political pressure by making an ‘unsafe’ decision to re-open a small emergency department — having previously suggested this would not happen if there was a second wave of coronavirus.
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UPDATED: Trusts with the highest proportion of covid patients
Charts showing covid-19 occupancy of hospital beds, by trust and by STP.
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NHS doubles covid test ‘capacity’ in three days as T&T looks set to hit 500k target
Test and Trace looks likely to hit its 500,000 daily covid testing target, after declaring huge leaps in NHS labs capacity over three days.
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Teaching hospital closed fifth of its beds after covid-19 outbreak on wards
A large teaching hospital in the south west temporarily closed a fifth of its beds this week after outbreaks of covid-19 on several wards, HSJ understands.
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Liverpool admissions flatten as covid accelerates in Manchester, Yorkshire and Notts
Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire are now seeing the highest numbers of new coronavirus cases in hospital, while Liverpool Cheshire and Merseyside – hit early in the second wave — has seen a drop in new cases in recent days.
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Region will have just five CCGs by April
The capital is set to have just five clinical commissioning groups by April, after hold-out GPs in one north west London CCG belatedly sanctioned the merger on their patch.
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Private children’s unit shut down after CQC safety concerns
A privately run child and adolescent mental health unit has been closed permanently, with its residents moved elsewhere, after concerns were raised about their safety.
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Ambulance chiefs tell hospitals it's 'not acceptable to delay transfers' due to covid
Ambulance bosses say patients are being put in ‘dangerous’ situations, as tighter infection control measures and busy emergency departments have left them waiting up to three-and-a-half hours to be transferred.
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Teaching hospital’s new boss leaves ‘after 57 days’
A new site chief for King’s College Hospital left the organisation shortly after joining, amid significant turnover in the foundation trust’s executive leadership team, HSJ has learned.
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Third of covid care home deaths in one region
A third of all covid deaths in care homes in England over the past three weeks have been recorded in the North East and Cumbria – with Sunderland a particular hotspot, new data has revealed.
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Two trusts in Greater Manchester suspend some electives
Two hospital trusts in Greater Manchester have suspended some non-urgent elective care, with one also taking steps to move some cancer procedures to alternative sites, HSJ understands.
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NHS England launches investigation into staff concerns at leading trust
NHS England has commissioned an independent investigation into allegations raised by staff at a leading cancer trust.