Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Huge cyber attack caused minimal patient harm, ICB claims

2024-10-30T12:35:00+00:00

A cyber attack which crippled a region’s pathology system for three months caused only five cases of “moderate” harm and no significant harm, the NHS has claimed.

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CEO interview: Ify Okocha, chief executive, Oxleas Foundation Trust

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

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

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Trust CEO: We only use ‘good’ providers but being ‘choosy’ is difficult

2024-06-19T05:00:00+01:00

The chief executive of a London trust has said it only sends patients to private providers rated at least “good” by the Care Quality Commission.

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London Eye: The NHS in the election campaign

2024-05-29T10:00:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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London Eye: ‘The plans are mainly b*&^%~ks’

2024-05-01T11:20:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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London Eye: Actually, we’ve coped well

2023-12-20T13:22:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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HSJ Awards 2023: Trust of the Year

2023-11-17T00:01:00+00:00

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System agrees 10% bed base increase to ease A&E crisis

2023-11-08T12:56:00+00:00

An integrated care system is planning to open between 70 and 100 addtional mental health beds to deal with a crisis in capacity.

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The staff wellbeing strategies that work

2023-10-18T05:10:00+01:00

Zosia Walecka says that trusts are dedicated to improving staff morale and patient care through their emphasis on culture, evidence-based methods, resource allocation, stress management, and promoting equality and diversity

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HSJ Awards shortlist revealed

2023-08-14T12:54:00+01:00

The shortlist for the 2023 HSJ Awards – including the six providers vying to be “trust of the year” – was announced today.

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‘Disappointing’ failure to boost community care revealed by internal data

2023-08-08T11:15:00+01:00

A ‘disappointingly slow’ transformation of community services means thousands of mental health patients are still presenting at emergency departments within weeks of being discharged from an inpatient facility.

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Trust CEOs decry ‘undeliverable’ and damaging financial plans

2023-07-07T05:42:00+01:00

NHS trusts have committed to financial plans for 2023-34 without properly considering their consequences – with finance directors turning a blind eye to unrealistic forecasts under pressure from NHS England – some of the country’s top NHS chief executives have warned.

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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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Trust loses £85m contract for local services after winning work 200 miles away

2023-05-24T04:56:00+01:00

A foundation trust has lost an £85m contract to provide healthcare services in its local prisons to a private company, after taking over the same services from the same company 230 miles away.

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London Eye: The nursing walkout isn't really about pay

2022-11-16T09:19:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Just 10 trusts responsible for half of ‘unacceptable’ placements

2022-11-03T06:21:00+00:00

Just 10 trusts account for more than half of patients ‘inappropriately’ sent out of their area for a mental health bed – with dozens having to travel up to 300km, according to HSJ analysis.

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Private provider sues NHS England over £270m contract award

2022-08-03T10:27:00+01:00

A private provider is accusing NHS England of breaking procurement rules after it awarded a contract for prison health services in the South West to a London mental health trust.

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Trust boss joins ‘service failures’ private provider

2022-07-13T11:21:00+01:00

A former NHS chief executive has taken up a senior executive role for a large independent provider whose NHS-funded services have seen major quality failures.

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Trust confirms new CEO after six-month wait

2021-12-13T11:29:00+00:00

Ify Okocha has been appointed chief executive of Oxleas Foundation Trust, after six months as an interim.

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Trust’s new CEO means three London chiefs have a minority ethnic background

2021-08-26T04:25:00+01:00

A London mental health trust has appointed an interim chief executive, who will be the third provider chief known to have a minority ethnic background in the capital.