Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Cara Charles-Barks

CEO appointed to run three trusts

2024-10-21T15:16:00+01:00

Three hospital trusts in the South West have appointed a joint chief executive as part of a move to a “group model”.

Car park

Revealed: Staff must now pay to park at five in six hospitals

2024-09-19T04:00:00+01:00

Only around 15 per cent of England’s 140 acute and specialist trusts are still offering free car parking for staff, HSJ analysis has found.

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.

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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.

Great Western Hospital

Three trusts to share CEO and chair

2024-07-16T09:36:00+01:00

Three trusts in the South West have announced plans to appoint a joint chair and chief executive, and form a new “group model”.

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Regional ‘medical rate card’ plan revealed

2024-06-06T11:39:00+01:00

NHS organisations across the South West are planning a “regional medical rate card” in a bid to reduce pay for additional work.

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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.

Great Western Hospital

Shared EPR plan for three trusts gets go-ahead

2024-05-03T11:00:00+01:00

An integrated care system in the South West has had plans to install a shared electronic patient record system across its three acute trusts approved by NHS England.

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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.

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Revealed: Trusts most reliant on oil for their energy

2024-03-04T12:49:00+00:00

Oil consumption across the NHS estate has seen its largest annual increase in a decade, as trusts turn to the fuel for emergencies and surges in demand.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

More trusts discover their buildings have faulty concrete

2024-02-29T19:01:00+00:00

Thirteen more NHS hospitals have identified a potentially unsafe form of concrete in their buildings, causing closures and disruption to wards.

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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.

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Empowering workforce and boosting savings: RUH’s remarkable £1.3m success story

2023-06-21T05:00:00+01:00

Alfredo Thompson, executive director of people & culture at Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust, discusses how the partnership with Locum’s Nest has driven RUH to achieve £1.3m in cost-avoidance savings, as well as streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and prioritise the well-being of their staff

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Trust accused of highlighting long NHS waits to promote its private hospital

2023-02-17T12:38:00+00:00

An NHS trust has been accused of promoting its private hospital by highlighting the long NHS waiting times which it is supposed to be addressing.

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Exclusive: Ambulance crews urged to conserve oxygen

2022-12-30T07:48:00+00:00

Ambulance staff are being urged to conserve oxygen supplies because of a national shortage of small cylinders used both on ambulances and in some A&E departments.

Digital

Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target

2022-11-23T06:00:00+00:00

Only one in five trusts has reached the level of digitisation required by 2025 – more than three years after the target was set, tech chiefs have revealed.

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Patients fit for discharge stuck in hospital for up to nine months

2022-08-31T06:06:00+01:00

Medically fit patients are waiting up to nine months to be discharged from some NHS hospitals as increasing numbers of working age people develop more complex conditions amid ongoing social care shortages.

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‘Commercial barriers’ stop ICS buying private hospital

2022-07-12T02:57:00+01:00

A health system has dropped a bid to buy a private hospital in its area, saying there were ‘commercial barriers’ to the deal.

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West Country Chronicle: Trust’s ‘unique’ private model boosts elective recovery

2022-07-11T11:27:00+01:00

From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.

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‘Impossible’ to improve delayed discharges as picture worsens

2022-06-01T11:32:00+01:00

The number of patients stuck in hospitals despite being ‘medically fit’ to leave has continued to increase in recent months, leading to warnings from NHS Confederation that trusts are finding it ‘impossible’ to make progress on reducing the numbers.