Medway NHS Foundation Trust

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Senior manager who made offensive comments leaves trust

2024-10-07T11:42:00+01:00

A senior manager who apparently made sexist and racist remarks on a work video call with colleagues has left the trust involved after an investigation.

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Trust investigating offensive comments by senior manager

2024-08-29T11:26:00+01:00

A trust is investigating after videos emerged showing one of its senior managers making apparently racist and sexist remarks with colleagues on a work call.

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.

Prof Lesley Dwyer

Tiering system needs ‘streamlining’, says trust CEO in programme

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

NHS England should streamline its “tiering” intervention programme to reduce the time and resource demands it places on struggling trusts, a CEO in the regime has told HSJ.

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CQC orders improvements to overcrowded A&E

2024-05-31T12:00:00+01:00

A hospital trust has been ordered to improve its accident and emergency department after an unannounced Care Quality Commission inspection.

Charing cross hospital

Trust wins fifth of new grants to decarbonise NHS estates

2024-05-21T11:45:00+01:00

A trust has won a fifth of new government grants awarded to the NHS to decarbonise its estates.

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.

John-Goulston

Former hospital chief to chair second trust

2024-05-10T05:02:00+01:00

A former trust chief executive has been appointed chair of a second trust in the South East.

Hospital beds ward

Trusts with ‘distressing’ mixed-sex ward breaches blame poor estates

2024-04-30T05:00:00+01:00

The trusts with the worst breach rates of mixed-sex ward rules in hospitals are revealed today by HSJ  analysis after national levels hit a record high in 2023-24.

Data

IT system which sparked safety alert dropped by 13 trusts

2024-04-12T04:30:00+01:00

More than a dozen trusts have changed their maternity IT system – or are in the process of doing so – following a national patient safety alert.

A&E accident and emergency

Trusts offered up to £4m to make last-ditch attempt on A&E target

2024-03-12T17:28:00+00:00

NHS England has confirmed new financial incentives for trusts to deliver strong performance against the four-hour emergency target this month.

Breast cancer radiology

Patients exposed to excess radiation by out-of-date radiology device

2024-03-11T04:55:00+00:00

Patients are being exposed to radiation doses at the “upper limit of safe” because a hospital is relying on a radiology machine three years after its “end of life” with a substandard second-hand part.

Stroke patient rehab

ICB pauses work on new stroke unit after ‘assurance’ concerns

2024-02-23T11:55:00+00:00

A decade-long bid to establish a hyper-acute stroke unit has been delayed further after commissioners raised “assurance” concerns.

Computer data

Trusts dispute NHS England’s ‘benefits’ claim over FDP pilot

2023-12-22T04:27:00+00:00

Five trusts have contradicted NHS England’s claim that they are “actively realising benefits” from pilots of the Federated Data Platform.

cyber security

NHSE warns widely used EPR could pose ‘serious risks to patient safety’

2023-12-08T11:09:00+00:00

NHS England has issued a national alert to all trusts providing maternity services after faults were discovered in IT software that could pose “potential serious risks to patient safety”.

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

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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‘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.

Gloucestershire Royal hospital

Projects excluded from ‘40 new hospitals’ programme had ‘political issues’

2023-10-31T04:26:00+00:00

Internal government documents show some of the building schemes that failed to make the final list of ‘40 new hospitals’ were flagged as having potentially serious ‘political issues’, HSJ has discovered.

RAAC

Hospitals close areas after discovering RAAC planks

2023-10-20T12:27:00+01:00

More hospitals have closed parts of their site after discovering potentially unsafe concrete had been used in the building structures, HSJ has learned.

Prof Lesley Dwyer

Australian CEO returns to lead challenged trust

2023-10-13T11:48:00+01:00

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed former Medway FT boss Lesley Dwyer as chief executive, HSJ has learned.