Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Staff at care scandal trust have ‘little left to give’ as spending controls bite

2024-10-22T11:28:00+01:00

Staff at a scandal-hit trust feel “undervalued and without any autonomy” due to newly imposed financial controls, according to internal emails.

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‘Dangerous’ people should not be admitted to specialist beds, warns CEO

2024-10-14T11:40:00+01:00

Police should work with mental health services to ensure people who pose a danger to society — and show no signs of being mentally unwell — are not inappropriately admitted to rarely available specialist beds, a chief executive has said.

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Patient Safety Watch: ‘Reform or die’

2024-08-13T12:00:00+01:00

HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.

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Providers ordered to review care models after killing of three people by patient

2024-08-13T04:28:00+01:00

NHS England has ordered providers to review their care models for patients with serious mental illnesses following an investigation into the killing of three people by a patient in Nottingham last June.

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Two more trusts get ‘mandated intensive support’ over deficits

2024-04-22T04:25:00+01:00

Two large hospital trusts have been put into NHS England’s “recovery support programme” and placed on the lowest rung of its oversight ratings.

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Hospital told to pair with ‘critical friend’

2024-03-26T15:15:00+00:00

The Care Quality Commission has told Rampton Hospital it must partner with another high secure hospital as a “critical friend”, in recommendations from a government-ordered “rapid review”.

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Mental Health Matters: Trouble in the Black Country

2024-03-14T09:54:00+00:00

HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.

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NHSE makes three senior hires

2024-02-01T12:50:00+00:00

NHS England has hired three new senior directors to its estates and facilities team.

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Minister orders ‘special review’ of embattled trust

2024-01-29T10:47:00+00:00

The government has ordered a “special review” into a trust facing multiple major concerns, including its treatment of Valdo Calocane before he killed three people in Nottingham last summer.

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Managers face axe at under-pressure trust

2024-01-18T16:28:00+00:00

A trust grappling with an “inadequate” rating at its high-profile high secure hospital has begun a major management restructure expected to include redundancies, HSJ has learned.

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‘Inadequate’ hospital restricted from admitting new patients

2024-01-17T05:09:00+00:00

A high secure hospital has been rated “inadequate” again by the Care Quality Commission and prevented from admitting new patients without the regulator’s “prior written agreement”.

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CEO interview: Ifti Majid, chief executive Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT

2023-10-11T11:26:00+01:00

This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.

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Trusts miss out on £50m of pledged ‘net zero’ funds

2023-09-01T11:59:00+01:00

Nearly a fifth of the capital funding allocated to the NHS for ‘net zero’ projects was never received by trusts, with at least two schemes prevented from going ahead due to a lack of flexibility in the scheme.

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‘Discrimination’ claim as ‘40 new hospitals’ snubs mental health

2023-05-31T07:00:00+01:00

A chief executive has compared a lack of investment into mental health estate to ‘institutionalised discrimination’, after no new schemes were accepted on to the ‘40 new hospitals’ programme.

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CCTV to be used ‘pro-actively’ by trusts to combat abuse

2023-02-27T12:25:00+00:00

Mental health trusts are exploring wider use of CCTV to review incidents of seclusion or restraint in response to high-profile abuse scandals, HSJ  has learned.

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How trusts are supporting disabled and neurodivergent staff

2022-11-29T12:19:00+00:00

It is Disability History Month and the perfect time for Oliver Potter to highlight some of the work being done to improve the experience of disabled and neurodivergent staff across the health service.

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Safety fears prompt NHS trusts to support troubled independent provider

2022-08-18T10:34:00+01:00

Five East Midlands trusts are working with the country’s largest independent mental health provider in a bid to improve service quality, amid concerns patient safety would have been put at risk if they had not stepped in.

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Dozens of referrals for vulnerable mothers refused due to ‘lack of beds’

2022-08-16T14:05:00+01:00

Dozens of referrals to specialist care for women with serious mental health problems during or after pregnancy are being turned down because no bed was available, data collected by HSJ reveals.

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Chief executive to lead neighbouring trust

2022-07-27T11:30:00+01:00

The chief executive of Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust will leave this year to lead a neighbouring mental health trust.

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Trust chief executive to step down after four years

2022-05-18T11:02:00+01:00

The chief executive of a mental health trust that runs one of three high secure hospitals in England is due to step down.