East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

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Experienced leader chosen to replace 40-year CEO

2024-10-07T09:00:00+01:00

A trust chief executive with more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare has been chosen to replace one of the longest-serving leaders the NHS has seen.

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Trust plans to lose hundreds of substantive posts

2024-06-19T11:32:00+01:00

A trust operating acute and community services is in talks with unions about reducing its substantive staff by 5 per cent this year, although it is not currently running a redundancy scheme.

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ICS explores wide-ranging service reorganisation

2024-05-31T06:59:00+01:00

An integrated care system is seeking support to explore a wide-ranging reconfiguration programme encompassing all acute and community services, HSJ has learned.

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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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Revealed: The worst trusts for long discharge delays

2023-11-23T04:48:00+00:00

The trusts with the most patients waiting at least a week after they are ‘ready’ to be discharged can be identified for the first time, following publication of new NHS England data.

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Revealed: The trusts offering ‘BMA rates’ to doctors covering strikes

2023-07-31T04:15:00+01:00

Around a quarter of acute trusts paid consultants premium rates to provide strike cover during the first two junior doctors’ walkouts, broadly matching the pay levels demanded by the British Medical Association’s ‘rate card’, HSJ research has found.

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Around 20 trusts ‘still without electric vehicle charging points’

2023-06-28T11:41:00+01:00

Around 20 trusts have not yet installed any electric vehicle charging points on their sites, HSJ analysis shows.

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Sunak’s local acute becomes first to be upgraded to ‘good’ since covid

2023-05-24T05:04:00+01:00

The Care Quality Commission has upgraded a major hospital trust to a ‘good’ rating for what is believed to be the first time since the start of the pandemic.

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NHS launches biggest central patient record programme since NPfIT

2021-11-12T12:58:00+00:00

Seven trusts have been selected for a new centralised approach to buying major IT equipment in a bid to “accelerate” digitisation across the health service, HSJ has learned.

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ICS admits 14 of its major services are ‘fragile and challenged’

2021-09-16T11:41:00+01:00

Fourteen of an integrated care system’s major services — which account for the ‘majority of [its] planned care’ — have been described as ‘fragile and challenged’.

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Exclusive: Trust to take over private hospital

2021-06-09T10:26:00+01:00

A trust is taking over a local independent hospital and intends to keep it for mainly private patients, HSJ can reveal.

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Revealed: The seven trusts getting £6m each for tech improvements

2021-03-18T14:46:00+00:00

Seven trusts will receive £6m each over the next three years in the second phase of Matt Hancock’s plan to improve IT infrastructure in the health service.

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Hospital hosts others’ surgeons so cancer ops can go ahead

2021-01-28T13:58:00+00:00

A specialist trust has freed up 29 theatre sessions a week so cancer surgery from nearby providers can continue during the covid pandemic.

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Covid infections caught in hospital up by half in a week

2021-01-16T06:00:00+00:00

Covid-19 infections likely to have been caught in hospital have increased by almost half in a week, with several trusts seeing significant rises, HSJ can reveal.

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Covid crisis forces suspension of maternity services

2021-01-07T07:00:00+00:00

Some trusts in London and the South East are closing standalone birth centres and warning they cannot support home births because of high levels of demand for ambulance services from covid patients.

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Revealed: the nine hospital trusts where covid patients fill at least half the beds

2021-01-06T12:22:00+00:00

Nine English NHS trusts now have at least half their adult acute beds occupied by covid-positive patients, with admissions still growing in every case.

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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Award

2020-09-04T15:15:00+01:00

The Kidzmed project was a quality improvement project to teach children and young people how to take tablet medication.

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Trust appoints interim chief after covid-19 crisis hits recruitment plans

2020-04-21T16:16:00+01:00

A trust has appointed an interim chief executive after the coronavirus crisis meant it was unable to carry out a normal recruitment process for the permanent post.

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‘Mountain’ waiting list will need five-year plan, says royal college

2020-04-14T16:42:00+01:00

The NHS will need a five-year strategy to deal with a “mountain” of an elective waiting list following the coronavirus outbreak, the Royal College of Surgeons has said.