Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent

2024-05-20T04:00:00+01:00

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.

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‘Decomposing bodies’ discovered at multiple hospitals

2024-05-16T04:26:00+01:00

Bodies are being left to deteriorate and in some cases decompose in hospital mortuaries, often because of a lack of freezer space, HSJ  has found.

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Hospitals close areas after discovering RAAC planks

2023-10-20T12:27:00+01:00

More hospitals have closed parts of their site after discovering potentially unsafe concrete had been used in the building structures, HSJ has learned.

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Labour ward staffing shortages restrict use of beneficial drug

2023-09-01T12:01:00+01:00

Staffing shortages are likely to restrict the use of a beneficial painkiller in birthing suites, even once its use has been recommended by national guidance.

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Ministers name 30 trusts receiving share of £250m fund

2023-08-15T06:00:00+01:00

Ministers have named the 30 trusts which will receive a share of a £250m fund to increase urgent and emergency care capacity.

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ICS sets balanced budget to avoid NHS England sanctions

2023-05-12T05:08:00+01:00

System leaders in Yorkshire have said their decision to set a balanced financial plan instead of a deficit was shaped by the ‘tactics’ of engaging with NHS England, including the threat of potential sanctions.

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Ex-council boss appointed trust chair

2023-03-08T06:27:00+00:00

Yorkshire Ambulance Service has appointed a new chair, who will join the organisation from an acute trust.

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Pioneering NHS trusts are digitising paper prescribing at pace. So, what’s their secret?

2023-01-18T06:00:00+00:00

Guy Lucchi, managing director of healthcare at System C, explains how trusts are rolling out their electronic prescribing systems in record time with immediate benefits to patient care

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Doctor confirmed as CEO of two trusts

2022-08-15T11:13:00+01:00

A medic who has been confirmed as joint CEO of two South Yorkshire hospital trusts has told HSJ the move is a “natural development” but “definitely not a merger, now or down the line”.

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Neonatal units face ‘redesignation’ under national shake-up

2022-03-16T12:53:00+00:00

A major shake-up of neonatal care, aimed at reducing mortality and illness, could see dozens of units restricted to caring for less premature babies.

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Trusts receive half of funding for ‘essential’ maternity improvements

2021-10-15T05:29:00+01:00

Trusts have so far received just over half of the £102m they said was needed for ‘immediate and essential’ improvements in maternity services.

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Exclusive: Eight trusts now have one in 10 beds filled by covid patients

2021-07-26T15:28:00+01:00

Eight hospital trusts have hit the point where one in 10 of their beds is occupied by a patient with coronavirus, figures seen by HSJ reveal, and several more are approaching it.

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Trusts drop business rates battle against councils

2021-03-29T11:20:00+01:00

Eleven NHS trusts have dropped a long-running bid to pay business rates at a discount usually reserved for charities, according to the Local Government Association.

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Covid occupancy rates grow at outlier trusts while trend flattens nationally

2020-11-27T13:21:00+00:00

The rate that England’s acute hospital beds are filling with covid patients has slowed down nationally — but a handful of trusts are still reporting growing occupancy rates despite four weeks of national lockdown.

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Covid deaths rise in the Humber while admissions surge in Lincolnshire

2020-11-20T13:05:00+00:00

Covid deaths in hospitals are rising quickly in the Humber, Coast and Vale health system and the neighbouring Lincolnshire system, NHS data shows.

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Exclusive: New areas see rapidly rising covid pressure on hospitals

2020-11-13T11:50:00+00:00

Covid demand on hospitals is now rising rapidly in parts of England so far spared the worst of wave two, analysis of new figures reveals.

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Trust becomes first to see a third of beds filled by covid patients during second wave

2020-11-06T11:30:00+00:00

Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust has more than a third of its general and acute beds occupied by covid patients, according to HSJ’s analysis of NHS data.

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Trusts end Lorenzo use after failed national IT programme

2020-08-28T05:16:00+01:00

An acute trust in Yorkshire has become the first of its cohort to fully replace its electronic patient record installed under the much-criticised National Programme for IT, with another trust set to follow suit.

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Eleven trusts renew £1.5bn court battle with their local councils

2020-03-11T06:00:00+00:00

Eleven hospital trusts are continuing a High Court action against their local authorities, by seeking to appeal a previous ruling that denied them an estimated £1.5bn in backdated business rates.