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MD representing £18bn turnover teaching trusts steps down

2024-10-02T11:47:00+01:00

The managing director of the Shelford Group, representing 10 of England’s biggest trusts – with a combined £18bn turnover – is to step down after three years in the role.

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ICB reprimanded for not ‘holding FTs to account’

2024-07-17T04:00:00+01:00

One of the largest integrated care systems has been accused of a “failure” of financial management, as NHS England issued a formal notice requiring urgent improvements across leadership, performance and care quality.

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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.

Lawrence Dunhill 2023

North by North West: Running rings around the ICB

2024-05-20T13:00:00+01:00

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‘Systematic’ cuts to private activity planned by stricken ICS

2024-05-16T04:37:00+01:00

A health system with one of the largest elective backlogs in the country will implement a “systematic reduction” of its dependency on private hospitals, as part of a bid to cut costs.

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‘Decomposing bodies’ discovered at multiple hospitals

2024-05-16T04:26:00+01:00

Bodies are being left to deteriorate and in some cases decompose in hospital mortuaries, often because of a lack of freezer space, HSJ  has found.

North by North West: Funding still pending as new hospital opens

2024-05-10T12:08:00+01:00

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Long-waiters fall by a third despite ‘stubbornly high’ elective list

2024-05-09T12:07:00+01:00

Trusts cut the number 65-week breaches by 35 per cent between February and March, reducing the long waiter cohort significantly from around 75,000 to around 49,000, according to NHS England’s monthly data.

Lawrence Dunhill 2023

North by North West: Skin in the game

2024-03-25T13:23:00+00:00

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NHSE recovery target in doubt as 18-month elective waits continue to rise

2024-03-14T12:20:00+00:00

The number of 78-week breaches on the NHS waiting list has risen for the sixth consecutive month, despite a fall in 65-week waiters and the overall list size, according to official data published today.

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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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Trust finally launches review into consultancy contract that was never tendered

2023-12-21T04:05:00+00:00

A major trust has launched an external review into a decade-long consultancy contract that was never subject to a public tender process.

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‘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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Stiffer stroke target introduced – despite failure to meet old standard

2023-11-29T05:13:00+00:00

The failure of trusts to offer stroke patients the level of rehab required by standards introduced 10 years ago has not prevented the publication of new guidance which demands even higher performance.

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Revealed: Official data masking long waits for the sickest patients

2023-11-24T05:10:00+00:00

Several trusts are failing to admit their sickest emergency patients in a timely fashion, despite performing well in official waiting time statistics, HSJ can reveal.

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Headcount rise of 4,000 ‘not readily explainable’ by troubled ICS

2023-11-15T12:26:00+00:00

The hiring of several thousand staff in a financially troubled health system was found to be ‘not readily explainable’ and well beyond the increases reported by similar areas.

Lawrence Dunhill 2023

North by North West: Criticising your own team’s a risky tactic

2023-11-06T12:28:00+00:00

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