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Seven-hospital ‘group’ to split in two

2024-11-04T12:00:00+00:00

Two large hospital trusts are scrapping their joint chair and CEO arrangement, HSJ can reveal.

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NHSE desire to please govt forcing finance chiefs to agree undeliverable plans

2024-11-04T05:20:00+00:00

One of the NHS’s foremost finance figures has joined the chorus of senior healthcare leaders raising serious concerns about the damaging effect of the way the service’s annual planning round is conducted.

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NHS estates backlog rises 20% to record high

2024-10-18T06:03:00+01:00

The cost of eradicating the estates maintenance backlog for NHS trusts rose around 20 per cent to a new record high of nearly £14bn year on year, according to new provisional data.

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Patient Safety Watch: Further evidence maternity safety is going in the wrong direction

2024-10-11T11:00:00+01:00

HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.

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Revealed: Dozens more children harmed after care failures

2024-09-24T04:08:00+01:00

Dozens more children have suffered harm due to failings in audiology services, HSJ can reveal.

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Hospital trusts ditch shared chair role

2024-08-23T11:09:00+01:00

Two large hospital trusts have dropped their shared chair arrangement. 

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IT outage still disrupting services after region declared ‘critical incident’

2024-07-19T16:26:00+01:00

Disruption to GP services is expected to continue this week, while London had to declare a “critical incident” over the Microsoft outage.

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Long waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target

2024-07-11T11:00:00+01:00

The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.

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Chair of £3bn trusts stands down

2024-07-08T10:00:00+01:00

The chair of two large hospital trusts has stepped down after taking up a ministerial job with the new Labour government.

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1,300 trust staff secure ‘special leave’ in lieu of covid bonus

2024-06-27T11:43:00+01:00

Trust staff who were denied a £1,600 covid bonus will now receive extra holidays worth the same amount.

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London Eye: The NHS in the election campaign

2024-05-29T10:00:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Following the Money: The trusts with the biggest drops in productivity

2024-05-21T13:47:00+01:00

HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.

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Another of government’s ‘40 new hospitals’ admits it will miss 2030 target

2024-05-08T11:42:00+01:00

A second trust in the government’s flagship NHS building programme has publicly admitted it does not expect its new hospital to be built by ministers’ 2030 target.

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Hospital rebuild ‘highly unlikely’ to hit government deadline

2024-05-01T11:38:00+01:00

Replacement of a hospital in dire condition is “highly unlikely” to be completed before the end of the decade – as promised under the government’s “40 new hospitals” plan – a trust has warned.

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London Eye: ‘The plans are mainly b*&^%~ks’

2024-05-01T11:20:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Fire warnings yet to be fully dealt with at eight hospitals

2024-04-05T11:00:00+01:00

Eight hospitals in England have fire safety warnings attached to them, with half in place since 2022 or earlier, HSJ can reveal.

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NHSE now backing 1,300 staff who missed out on ‘covid bonus’

2024-04-04T15:19:00+01:00

NHS England has now said it is supporting a trust in trying to pay 1,300 of its staff who missed out on the covid bonus due to a quirk of timing.

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Trust’s plea to pay covid bonus to 1,300 staff rejected by NHSE

2024-04-03T11:23:00+01:00

NHS England turned down a plea to fund the covid bonus for a large group of staff who had recently transferred to a trust due to fears it could set a precedent for payouts to other similar groups, HSJ can reveal.

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Bid to speed up selected ‘new hospitals’

2024-02-19T05:14:00+00:00

Some of the schemes within the “40 new hospitals” programme could be allowed to abandon the requirement for standard design and centralised procurement, in a bid to speed the projects up.

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London Eye: A troubling narrative

2024-02-07T12:58:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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HSJ Podcast: The reality behind NHSE’s flagship outpatient programme

2024-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

This week for the first time a study has revealed the number of patients on PIFU pathways has not translated into a significant reduction in follow-up appointments.

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London Eye: It’s that can again

2024-01-24T11:55:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Trusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams

2024-01-22T12:58:00+00:00

Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.

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Emergency unit faced closure amid ‘significant staffing crisis’

2024-01-18T12:39:00+00:00

A hospital trust has considered closing its new “same day emergency care” facility twice in the past month or so, because of a “dire” A&E position.

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London Eye: Patient harm? ‘Definitely’

2024-01-10T12:33:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Former national director to chair two ICBs

2024-01-09T12:38:00+00:00

A long-serving hospital leader and former NHS Improvement director will become the first to chair two neighbouring integrated care boards.

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Trusts dispute NHS England’s ‘benefits’ claim over FDP pilot

2023-12-22T04:27:00+00:00

Five trusts have contradicted NHS England’s claim that they are “actively realising benefits” from pilots of the Federated Data Platform.

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London Eye: Actually, we’ve coped well

2023-12-20T13:22:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Thirteen trusts write off £1.3m in overpayments to staff

2023-12-19T12:48:00+00:00

Thirteen trusts were responsible for just over half of £2.6m overpayments to staff written off by NHS providers last year, data obtained by HSJ reveals.

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Staff set to miss out on ‘covid bonus’ despite government U-turn

2023-12-05T12:44:00+00:00

Staff in some organisations providing NHS services – including in trusts’ subsidiary companies – are likely to miss out the one-off ‘covid bonus’ paid to other health service staff, despite an apparent government agreement to fund it, HSJ has been told

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Ex-national director to lead ICS group

2023-12-05T04:30:00+00:00

The former medical director of NHS Improvement – who now holds several local board roles – is to become chair of the national NHS Integrated Care System network.

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London Eye: Missing the police

2023-11-22T13:26:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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‘Design compromise’ for new-build hospitals due to funding shortfalls

2023-11-10T12:00:00+00:00

Trusts in the ‘new hospital programme’ will have to make significant compromises to their projects unless the Treasury can be persuaded to release billions more in funding, sources have told HSJ.

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HSJ Podcast: The rise and rise of the hospital group

2023-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

As an increasing number of hospitals appoint shared CEOs and chairs – and more large “groups” are created – we discuss the benefits and drawbacks to this new(ish) way of running things.

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Single ‘group’ team will run seven hospitals

2023-10-31T12:40:00+00:00

Two major trusts have announced they will move to a single executive team and board over the next 18 months, across the seven hospitals they operate.

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ICS calls in turnaround director after plunging £70m into the red

2023-09-25T03:53:00+01:00

An integrated care system has brought in a financial turnaround director after racking up an unplanned deficit of more than £70m in the first five months of the 2023-24 financial year.

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Every acute in ICS to use the same EPR after £44m deal

2023-09-07T14:26:00+01:00

One of the last trusts in London to move away from paper records has named Oracle Cerner as its preferred electronic patient record supplier in a 10-year deal worth £44m.

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Revealed: 60pc of trusts have a ‘first-time’ CEO

2023-08-29T03:18:00+01:00

Nearly two-thirds of trusts have a ‘first-time’ chief executive, while one-third of the sector’s CEOs have been in their current post for 18 months or less, following a period of remarkable turnover since the covid crisis.

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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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‘National’ action to curb huge jump in consultant overtime rates being considered by NHSE

2023-06-26T12:26:00+01:00

NHS England is considering a national response to the increased overtime rates charged by medical consultants - especially those undertaken during the ongoing junior doctors strikes