All LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST articles – Page 12
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HSJ Local
Salford finance director to move to Leeds
STRUCTURE: Salford Royal Foundation Trust finance director and deputy chief executive Tony Whitfield is leaving to join Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in January.
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HSJ Local
CCGs agree 'floor and ceiling' core contract with Leeds hospitals
FINANCE: The Leeds CCGs have agreed a joint £362m “floor and ceiling contract” for core payment by results services with Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ Local
Leeds Teaching appoints new chief exec
WORKFORCE: The board of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has appointed Julian Hartley as its new chief executive.
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HSJ LocalHusband and wife take over at troubled £1bn hospital trust
STRUCTURE: A husband-and-wife team of former primary care trust leaders have been appointed as interim chief executive and turnaround director of the huge and troubled Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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NewsNHS England to rethink children's heart surgery plans
NHS England is under pressure to swiftly develop new plans for children’s heart surgery after a controversial reconfiguration was today suspended by the health secretary following an independent review.
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NewsHunt heart unit statement expected imminently
Campaigners fighting to save a children’s heart unit are hoping health secretary Jeremy Hunt will reverse the decision today.
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NewsExclusive: Confed finds venture capitalists to fund innovation
The NHS Confederation is working with a venture capitalist firm to seek private backing for innovations in the NHS.
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HSJ Local
Leeds Hospitals asks for Savile evidence
STRUCTURE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has issued a statement encouraging anyone who came in contact with Jimmy Savile through hospitals in Leeds to come forward and give any evidence or witness statements to the independent investigation into his activities.
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CommentThe NHS needs a more mature attitude to patient safety
NHS England must allow open reporting and tough decisions
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HSJ Local
Leeds hospitals chief executive leaving post
The chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is to leave next month. Maggie Boyle’s departure follows persistent performance problems at the trust, and an investigation into mortality rates among children undergoing heart surgery.
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LeaderLeader: Francis demands more honesty from the NHS
Robert Francis wants to shift the NHS’s centre of gravity
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NewsFrancis concerned about failure to merge regulators' 'leadership'
The refusal to merge NHS provider regulation into a single organisation could leave the system open to mistakes, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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NewsSavile review seeks NHS staff views on celebrity fundraisers
The barrister overseeing the reviews of Jimmy Savile’s involvement with the NHS is seeking evidence from staff on celebrity association with organisations.
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NewsChildren's heart surgery review 'cost £8m'
A review of specialist heart surgery units for children has cost more than £8m, an MP has claimed.
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NewsChild heart op death rates released
Mortality rates for all children’s heart surgery centres in England have been released following the temporary suspension of operations in Leeds.
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NewsKeogh criticises poor data in NHS following Leeds row
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has criticised clinicians and organisations which do not gather or report quality data in the wake of the Leeds children’s heart surgery controversy.
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Leeds surgery halt meant 10 children transferred
Ten sick children had to be transferred up to 120 miles from a Leeds paediatric heart unit while surgery was suspended, it has emerged.
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NewsLeeds heart unit campaigners urge for investigation
Campaigners fighting to save the children’s heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) have called on health secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch an investigation into the suspension of surgery at the hospital, describing the decision as “NHS politics at its worst”.
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NewsKeogh defends Leeds stoppage as heart surgery cleared to resume
Children’s heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary was halted because of poor data showing unusually high death rates which were submitted by the hospital itself, the medical director of NHS England has said.