Trust reviewing 800 cases over child surgery failures
A large teaching trust has launched reviews of surgery on nearly 800 patients operated on by a children’s orthopaedic surgeon – and whether concerns raised 10 years ago could have prevented harm.
Top trusts failed mortuary security checks
Some of England’s most prestigious trusts have been caught with inadequate security for their mortuaries – despite recent high-profile breaches, HSJ can reveal.
London Eye: The (surprising) names linked to England’s top hospital job
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Departing CEO given £120,000 back pay
A trust chief executive was given £120,000 in back pay and a total £380,000 in salary payments shortly before leaving the role, it has emerged.
MD representing £18bn turnover teaching trusts steps down
The managing director of the Shelford Group, representing 10 of England’s biggest trusts – with a combined £18bn turnover – is to step down after three years in the role.
Carbon Copy: Renewed energy for net zero?
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
Former Blair aide to chair teaching trust
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Labour peer and former top Number 10 adviser Baroness Sally Morgan as its next chair.
40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent
Fourty per cent of the £150m capital funding pot NHS England made available to incentivise urgent and emergency care improvements was not distributed, data shown to HSJ reveals.
EXCLUSIVE: Trusts regularly breaching security standards
Twenty one serious security failures at hospital mortuaries were discovered by the Human Tissues Authority between April 2022 and March 2024, HSJ can reveal.
Exclusive: Maternity delays spark thousands of safety alerts each year
Maternity departments are raising thousands of safety reports every year about delayed inductions of labour, HSJ can reveal.
Five trust CEOs were paid more than £300,000 last year
Several trust chief executives were paid more than £300,000 in 2022-23, including adjustments for previous underpayments, pay in lieu of pension contributions, and redundancy packages.
Trust reveals major data breaches involving over 22,000 patients’ data
A major teaching trust mistakenly released private information belonging to more than 22,000 patients in two major data breaches.
‘Same day’ emergency care drops at 40 trusts, despite NHSE push
A third of acute trusts are doing proportionally less “same day emergency care” activity than a year ago, despite this being a key pillar of NHS England’s recovery plan, data suggests.
Shelford trusts now paying consultants up to £269 an hour to cover strike night shifts
Seven of the 10 largest teaching trusts are understood to have acquiesced to demands by the British Medical Association to pay consultants higher overtime rates for covering August’s junior doctors’ strike.
Revealed: Trust alerts police over clinician who ‘worked on forged qualifications’
A major teaching hospital has alerted the police after it discovered an advanced clinical practitioner who worked for the trust for several years and likely saw thousands of patients was doing so on forged professional qualifications, HSJ has learned.
Four NHS chiefs awarded birthday honours alongside maternity campaigners
Four NHS chief executives were among those recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours, along with public health leaders and safety campaigners.
‘One nurse per ward’ warning over next week’s strike
A major acute trust has warned ahead of next week’s nursing strike that it will face ‘very severe staffing shortages’ in children’s A&E, with ‘as few as one nurse per ward’, much less critical care capacity, and fewer operating theatres open than on Christmas Day.
Another CEO given national director role
Another chief executive of a local NHS organisation has been hired as a national director by NHS England.
Exclusive: Trusts abandon renewable electricity commitment
Around half of the largest trusts are not buying all their electricity from renewable sources despite a national requirement to do so, as prices of this type of energy rocket, HSJ understands.
HSJ’s 10 most read patient safety stories of 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, HSJ takes a look at its most read patient safety stories of the year.