James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Ambulance

Revealed: the trusts with the worst summer A&E handover delays

2024-08-15T11:47:00+01:00

Patients stuck in ambulances queuing outside A&Es have waited an average of over two hours at two trusts this summer, data published for the first time reveals.

James Paget

Six trusts drop into ‘most challenged’ group

2024-06-10T04:00:00+01:00

Six more trusts have dropped into the “tier 1” group for the most challenged providers for their elective or cancer performance.

Patricia Hewitt

Hewitt’s ICS using health inequality cash to ‘offset deficit’

2024-05-31T11:32:00+01:00

An integrated care system whose chair said addressing health inequalities must be prioritised has admitted using dedicated funds to offset its financial deficit.

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

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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Recovery Watch: The ICBs on the slide against the main elective target

2024-05-08T13:51:00+01:00

Recovering services from the covid crisis is a big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.

Emergency workforce

A&E target missed despite tough line from NHSE

2024-04-11T10:39:00+01:00

The headline A&E target was missed in March, despite NHS England’s controversial last-ditch attempts to deliver it.

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ICS freed from ‘intensive’ central oversight for first time

2024-03-01T16:18:00+00:00

Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System has been lifted out of the lowest category of NHS England’s performance management regime.

Norfolk Broads

Three trusts pick US firm for £150m EPR scheme

2023-08-29T09:43:00+01:00

Three acute trusts in one of the NHS’s least digitally mature health economies have hired US firm Meditech to provide a single electronic patient record under a contract worth around £155m.

James Paget

‘Good’ maternity unit downgraded to ‘inadequate’

2023-05-31T05:09:00+01:00

A Norfolk hospital’s maternity services have been downgraded from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’, with warnings raised about the safety and quality of care provided.

Norfolk Broads

ICS plans £100m tech investment alongside new EPR

2023-02-16T12:22:00+00:00

One of the NHS’s most challenged health systems has made plans to invest around £100m on IT projects over the next three years, in addition to an electronic patient record across three trusts.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

‘Digital desert’ gets go-ahead for £155m records system

2023-02-02T05:39:00+00:00

Three acute trusts are set to launch a tender process to sign up a provider for an ambitious electronic patient record system spanning all their hospitals, with the contract valued at around £155m, HSJ  has learned.

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Patient Safety Watch: Clear signs of extreme pressure

2022-12-09T12:41:00+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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Five trusts outsource their back office in £20m deal

2022-10-31T07:06:00+00:00

Five trusts within an integrated care system have outsourced their back office functions to NHS Shared Business Services.

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Recovery Watch: Elective recovery in a challenged rural area

2022-10-12T14:10:00+01:00

Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.

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Govt to add trusts with unsafe roofs to ‘40 new hospitals’ programme

2022-08-25T06:00:00+01:00

Several trusts with dangerous structural planks are set to be selected for the government’s flagship hospital building programme, HSJ has learned.

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Revealed: The 27 trusts still without an electronic patient record

2022-05-26T03:50:00+01:00

Almost 30 NHS trusts do not have comprehensive electronic patient records amid a renewed push by government to get electronic systems into all NHS hospitals, according to HSJ research.

Norfolk Broads

Trusts pause private plan for joint leadership

2022-05-03T12:04:00+01:00

The three acute trusts in the Norfolk and Waveney integrated care system have admitted the existence of private plans to merge their leadership, but say the proposals are now on hold, HSJ has learned.

James Paget

Acute trust promotes COO to top job

2022-03-01T05:30:00+00:00

James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust has announced chief operating officer Jo Segasby, who is a registered nurse, is to become the trust’s new chief executive.

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New ICS structure ‘absolutely daft’, says acute chair

2022-02-04T06:15:00+00:00

Proposals for how Norfolk and Waveney integrated care system will work ‘feel so top heavy’ that residents could ‘struggle to understand the point’, a local hospital chair has warned.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

CCG opens ‘care hotel’ after critical incident

2022-01-21T13:15:00+00:00

A hotel in the centre of Norwich is temporarily being converted into a care facility to help ease local bed pressures, as Norfolk becomes the latest area to pilot the model.