Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Revealed: The trusts struggling most with delayed discharge ‘interface’ problems

2024-10-02T05:00:00+01:00

The trusts struggling most on the number of delayed discharges caused by so-called “interface issues” between acute and other care services – mostly negotiations over care packages – are revealed by a new dataset.

Wexham Park Hospital

Trust hope to declare infection outbreak over next week

2024-07-04T04:57:00+01:00

A hospital trust which ordered a review of potential deaths and harm caused by a serious healthcare-acquired infection hopes to declare the outbreak over next week.

Douglas Richard

ICB boss and chief nurse awarded top honours

2024-06-17T10:00:00+01:00

An integrated care board chair who was previously the Department of Health’s finance lead, and a long-serving chief nurse, were among those named in the King’s birthday honours list.

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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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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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Former CEO to chair trust at centre of bullying allegations

2024-04-24T10:00:00+01:00

A former trust and integrated care system chief executive has been appointed as the chair of a hospital provider grappling with high-profile bullying concerns.

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A&E problem trusts targeted for tech investment

2024-04-22T11:42:00+01:00

Some of the worst-performing trusts for emergency care performance are set to get funding from NHS England to help manage patient flow through hospital.

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New CEO for FT embarking on hospital build

2024-03-26T09:34:00+00:00

A new chief executive has been appointed to a foundation trust seeking to embark on a major new build as part of the “new hospitals programme”.

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Trust chief executive quits to take job in Qatar

2023-12-08T11:24:00+00:00

The chief executive of one of England’s biggest trusts is to leave after being headhunted for a senior leadership role in the Middle Eastern state of Qatar.

University College London Hospital

‘Same day’ emergency care drops at 40 trusts, despite NHSE push

2023-12-05T04:29:00+00:00

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.

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‘Excess deaths’ due to A&E delays rise by nearly a third in one year

2023-11-07T12:44:00+00:00

Long waits in A&E departments may have caused around 30,000 ‘excess deaths’ last year, according to new estimates.

University Hospitals Plymouth Trust

Revealed: Four trusts report quarter of all ‘critical incidents’

2023-10-25T12:18:00+01:00

More than a quarter of ‘critical incidents’ have been declared by just four trusts since the start of the crisis in urgent and emergency care.

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Revealed: the ICSs where delayed discharge rates have doubled in a year

2023-09-25T03:57:00+01:00

More than half of integrated care systems have managed to cut their rates of delayed discharges this year, but performance worsened in 16 ICSs.

Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Bullying and safety concerns raised by ‘outstanding’ hospital’s juniors

2023-07-11T11:39:00+01:00

An inspection of an ‘outstanding’ hospital has revealed concerns about unsafe staffing, as well as bullying and undermining behaviour.

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What’s changed in the ‘new hospitals’ programme?

2023-05-25T15:55:00+01:00

HSJ has mapped and charted how the projects in the new hospitals programme have changed following government’s announcement today.

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Patient Safety Watch: Putting things right when they go wrong

2023-01-27T13:00:00+00:00

Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.

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Waiting times got worse at trusts that dropped A&E target

2022-12-13T06:00:00+00:00

Trusts trialling NHS England’s new A&E metrics reported worse average waiting times for admitted patients than those which stayed on the four-hour target, an HSJ analysis suggests.

Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Highest-rated ICS plunges into the red

2022-11-07T06:32:00+00:00

England’s highest rated integrated care system has fallen £18.5m behind its financial target for the year, with local leaders warning of a ‘fundamental dichotomy’ between the assumptions made in their fiscal plans and reality.

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Trusts need hundreds of millions to stop hospitals’ roofs collapsing

2022-10-17T11:59:00+01:00

Trusts need hundreds of millions of pounds to remediate dangerous roofs.

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NHS maintenance backlog tops £10bn

2022-10-14T10:04:00+01:00

Spending on the NHS estate has increased at the fastest-rate since the service began collecting detailed data, new figures show.