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City’s five trusts to form £2bn ‘group’

2024-10-30T09:26:00+00:00

A city’s five acute and specialist trusts have agreed to form a major £2bn hospital “group”.

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Trust chief and cancer leader retiring after 40 years

2024-10-16T06:00:00+01:00

The chief executive of two specialist trusts has announced her retirement less than a year after taking up the second of the roles.

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City’s trusts agree to joint committee after ICB intervention

2024-07-29T11:15:00+01:00

Five trusts in the city with the most separate NHS providers have agreed to form a joint committee at the request of the region’s integrated care board.

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Two trusts in city with ‘hospital for every part of body’ to merge CEO role

2023-12-19T16:24:00+00:00

The city with five separate specialist trusts will see two of its trusts share a single chief executive from early next year.

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Trust reviews leadership options as CEO leaves for scandal-hit neighbour

2023-11-22T10:00:00+00:00

A scandal-hit acute trust has appointed the long-serving leader of a specialist provider as its substantive chief executive.

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North by North West: Magna Carta to ‘mandated support’

2023-03-20T12:14:00+00:00

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North by North West: Liverpool promises to change

2023-01-23T11:25:00+00:00

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Trust merger ‘bedevilled with problems’, says key proponent

2023-01-19T12:39:00+00:00

One of the key proponents of a major trust merger has told HSJ its implementation has been “bedevilled with problems”, and that leaders have so far failed to deliver its benefits.

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North by North West: Accountants take back control

2022-12-19T13:09:00+00:00

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Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target

2022-11-23T06:00:00+00:00

Only one in five trusts has reached the level of digitisation required by 2025 – more than three years after the target was set, tech chiefs have revealed.

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NHSE prompts ICS review of city’s hospitals

2022-05-23T12:56:00+01:00

NHS England has asked for an independent review to look into the configuration of hospital services in a city with six separate acute and specialist trusts.

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HSJ podcast: How to fix an NHS trust

2022-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

NHS trusts are getting better – that’s the view of the Care Quality Commission, at least, which now rates only a single organisation as “inadequate”, and two-thirds as “good” or “outstanding”, a big shift from five years ago.

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£2bn ‘hospital group’ under discussion

2022-02-24T12:13:00+00:00

The prospect of creating a £2bn ‘group’ of hospital providers in Liverpool is under formal discussion, senior sources have told HSJ.

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and Royal Devon & Exeter NHSFT joined the NHSE/I Enhanced Supportive Care pilot in 2016, promoting earlier implementation of supportive/palliative care within cancer care to prevent and manage adverse effects of cancer and cancer treatment. Since 2019 our collaborative has analysed the most comprehensive ESC data available, ...

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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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City ‘under the cosh’ from covid forced to admit adults to children’s critical care unit

2021-01-17T18:09:00+00:00

Liverpool has been forced to re-open a paediatric intensive care unit to adults as the NHS chief executive warned the city was “right back under the cosh” from the third wave of the pandemic.

Exclusive: NHS pleas for covid upgrade funds went unmet ahead of second wave

2020-12-08T06:02:00+00:00

Local NHS requests for hundreds of millions of pounds of government funding to help deal with covid pressures have gone unanswered throughout the pandemic, an HSJ investigation has found.

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What does the NHS staff survey really tell us?

2020-03-09T06:25:00+00:00

The quality and safety of patient care the system delivers depends on the wellbeing, morale and sustainability of frontline staff members. By Gordon Forbes

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North by North West: Why Liverpool missed out

2019-10-11T16:27:00+01:00

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North by North West: Going electronic

2019-09-02T10:38:00+01:00

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