North Tees and Hartlepool 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.

North Tees and Hartlepool FT

Repairs backlog leaps 60% at trust rejected for rebuild

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

A trust’s maintenance backlog has risen by 60 per cent in a single year – more than four times the typical annual increase – after its bid for national funding to rebuild its main hospital was turned down.

Colchester Hospital

Trust hit by strike over backpay dispute

2024-07-03T11:58:00+01:00

Another trust faces strike action by healthcare assistants, as a dispute which began in the North West spreads to other parts of the country.

Payslip

Trusts agree staff rebanding deal after year-long dispute

2024-06-27T15:00:00+01:00

Two acute trusts have agreed to reband around 1,500 healthcare assistants – and to backdate pay for five years.

JOE TALORA

The Download: A closer look at the FDP in action

2024-05-28T13:05:00+01:00

The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.

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.

Ben Houchen

Building a hospital ‘not difficult’, says re-elected mayor

2024-05-10T11:00:00+01:00

A mayor is planning to launch a consultation to build a new hospital the government says he has no powers to build – claiming the project “doesn’t seem difficult”.

court judge

Trust ordered to make second £400k-plus payment to a whistleblower

2024-03-15T05:01:00+00:00

A trust which last year was ordered to pay a whistleblowing nurse nearly £500,000 must now give a surgeon £430,000 to compensate him for the racial discrimination and harassment he faced after raising patient safety concerns.

Payslip

ICB warned of ‘large financial risk’ from HCA wage claim

2024-03-14T13:45:00+00:00

NHS organisations across Surrey are to review healthcare assistants’ pay in the face of potential strike action at one trust.

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.

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Lack of collaboration a factor in failed bids for new hospital, says CEO

2024-02-29T12:21:00+00:00

The lack of collaboration with a neighbour was a factor in a trust being overlooked for capital investment to rebuild an acute hospital, its chief executive has suggested.

Bedford Hospital

Strikes spread to more trusts over backpay dispute

2024-02-28T12:27:00+00:00

Strike action by healthcare assistants looks set to spread to more trusts, having so far been confined to the North West region.

University Hosptial of Hartlepool to upload

Revealed: The ‘unacceptable’ hospital buildings with no investment

2024-02-07T12:50:00+00:00

Estates chiefs at 19 acute hospitals have classed more than half of their occupied space as  “not functionally suitable” and lacking any promise of major investment.

Payslip

Five trust CEOs were paid more than £300,000 last year

2024-01-18T12:33:00+00:00

Several trust chief executives were paid more than £300,000 in 2022-23, including adjustments for previous underpayments, pay in lieu of pension contributions, and redundancy packages.

Emergency workforce

A&E target set to be raised, despite NHS missing lower bar

2024-01-05T06:57:00+00:00

NHS England and government are set to raise their target for four-hour A&E performance, despite most hospitals failing to meet the current ask.

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.

Stacey-Hunter-headshot

Trusts bring in joint CEO after NHSE intervention

2023-10-17T11:43:00+01:00

A joint chief executive has been appointed to lead two neighbouring acute trusts following threats of regulatory action from NHS England.

heroclaps

Be careful of celebrating staff as ‘heroes’, NHSE advises trusts

2023-10-16T05:11:00+01:00

Trusts haven been warned to be careful of “contentious” approaches to staff recognition, such as those that mimic the “clap for carers” initiative organised during the pandemic.

RAAC

More trusts find RAAC concrete on estates

2023-10-06T04:37:00+01:00

At least seven more trusts have confirmed lightweight concrete on their estates following NHS England-ordered reviews and widespread safety concerns, HSJ has found.