Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

SaTH Chief Executive Louise Barnett to upload

CEO who led trust through scandals announces departure

2024-08-06T04:20:00+01:00

The chief executive of a trust mired in maternity and emergency care scandals has announced she is leaving after four years at the helm.

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Maternity-scandal trust to share chair with neighbour

2024-05-22T11:39:00+01:00

A struggling acute trust has announced plans to share a chair with its neighbouring community provider.

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Light-touch scrutiny during covid gave ‘freedom’ to improve, says retiring CEO

2022-08-23T15:34:00+01:00

The CEO of a mental health trust that recently moved out of the successor to ‘special measures’ is to retire early next year after more than 40 years in the NHS.

Jan Ditheridge

Yorkshire trust appoints new chief

2019-12-09T12:44:00+00:00

Sheffield’s mental health and community trust has appointed a new chief executive.

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Best of 2018: HSJ's top mental health stories

2018-12-31T07:28:00+00:00

As the year draws to an end, we look back on the 10 most-read stories from the mental health sector. These include the announcement of two trust chiefs stepping down and a merger to create the biggest mental health and community trust in the country being delayed

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Exclusive: Major incident as hospital waste collections halted

2018-12-10T12:00:00+00:00

More than 20 NHS trusts must store clinical waste, including human remains, at their premises for up to a fortnight after their scandal-hit contractor stopped collecting waste last week, prompting a major incident.

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Chief officer for West Midlands CCG to step down

2018-10-02T06:00:00+01:00

The accountable officer for Shropshire clinical commissioning group has announced his intention to retire next March

Contract

NHS Improvement rejects bids for small trust takeover

2018-06-01T10:51:00+01:00

NHS Improvement has rejected two separate bids to take over a community trust, claiming neither submission met the full criteria.

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Milestone trust merger delayed until summer

2018-04-04T06:00:00+01:00

A merger to create the biggest mental health and community trust in the country has been delayed.

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Trusts battle to take over neighbouring provider

2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00

An acute trust and a mental health provider in the West Midlands will compete to take over a neighbouring community trust after both were shortlisted as preferred bidders to run the struggling provider.

Caryn Carr

Roundtable: Education holds the key to better wound care

2017-01-23T07:00:00+00:00

Our latest roundtable brought together experts to explore how to redress the lack of attention and resources devoted to wound care in the NHS

The Christie

Revealed: New oversight ratings for every NHS trust

2016-10-21T13:37:00+01:00

Regulators have published proposed new ratings for every NHS trust that reflect the seriousness of the problems they face.

Countryside

Shropshire GPs have ‘no capacity’ to take on rural urgent care work

2015-12-04T11:25:00+00:00

RECONFIGURATION: GP leaders in Shropshire have raised fears that a proposed reorganisation of emergency care in the region would see an increase in GP workloads for which they say there is no more capacity.

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Integration: Happening quietly in a place near you

2015-09-09T07:30:00+01:00

Local approach offers tangible benefits

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CCGs widen access to IVF treatment

2015-08-20T12:18:00+01:00

FINANCE: Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin clinical commissioning groups will increase the age at which women can be eligible to NHS funded IVF treatment from 37-and-a-half to 40.

Leadership

Leadership inquiry: Watch this space

2015-08-19T18:30:00+01:00

Panel debate the challenges for developing leaders

Targets

CCG blames NHS Shared Business Services for missing financial target

2015-08-19T07:00:00+01:00

FINANCE: Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group has blamed NHS Shared Business Services for an error which caused the CCG to fail to meet its cash balance target in June, according to board documents.

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Community nurse staffing to be monitored

2015-03-20T15:41:00+00:00

WORKFORCE: Shropshire Community Health Trust will begin monitoring staffing levels among community nurses each month from April.

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HSJ Live 21.03.2014: CQC trialling appeals process for quality ratings

2014-03-21T07:00:00+00:00

CQC trialling a new appeals process that will allow providers to challenge their rating, plus the rest of today’s news and comment

West Mercia CCGs choose new support providers

2012-07-12T18:56:00+01:00

COMMERCIAL: West Mercia clinical commissioning groups have chosen an alternative supplier of commissioning support services after plans to establish a local provider in their area were abandoned.