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ICB chair steps down to join double-merger trust

2024-10-23T15:36:00+01:00

An integrated care board chair is leaving her role to join an integrated trust in the West Country, it has been announced.

Miles Scott

Local leaders should run NHSE regions, suggest trust CEOs

2024-10-07T05:00:00+01:00

NHS England’s regional leadership should largely constitute senior executives seconded from local NHS organisations, some of the country’s leading trust CEOs have suggested.

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The NHS must act to prevent mentally unwell people dying from physical illnesses

2024-05-17T11:00:00+01:00

Emily Gibbons discusses how trusts lead the charge in integrating mental and physical health services for better outcomes and equity, bridging gaps, and saving lives

Hospital beds

Revealed: The worst trusts for long discharge delays

2023-11-23T04:48:00+00:00

The trusts with the most patients waiting at least a week after they are ‘ready’ to be discharged can be identified for the first time, following publication of new NHS England data.

Smoke

Third of largest trusts do not know their carbon footprint

2023-10-26T12:33:00+01:00

More than a third of the largest NHS trusts are still unable to state the size of their full carbon footprint, despite it being three years since the national plan for ‘net zero’ was established.

Newborn baby

Revealed: Trusts underperforming on infant mortality

2023-09-18T11:39:00+01:00

The number of trusts outperforming their peers on infant mortality has fallen, according to a national audit.

Taunton and Somerset A and E

CEO of double-merger trust targets ‘powerful’ shift to out-of-hospital care

2023-04-24T11:40:00+01:00

England’s largest integrated trust is aiming to transform its acute services on a scale comparable to the move away from mental health institutions to community-based care, its CEO has told HSJ.

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Revealed: Best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food

2023-04-11T11:39:00+01:00

The best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food have been revealed in a national assessment by patients and staff.

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Harm caused by long cancer waits to be investigated by ICB

2023-02-03T05:28:00+00:00

Commissioners have begun a ‘serious incident review’ across their integrated care system after early indications showed patients may have suffered harm due to long waits for cancer treatment.

Payslip

Exclusive: the trusts offering thousands of staff inferior pensions

2023-01-18T12:40:00+00:00

Trusts are regularly denying staff employed by their wholly owned subsidiary companies access to the NHS pension and providing them with schemes which are significantly less generous.

Nurse strike to hit at all but one of region’s hospitals next month

2023-01-16T18:01:00+00:00

Nurses at every acute trust in the South West except one will strike next month, under further action announced by the Royal College of Nursing.

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Ex-police chief to chair struggling trust

2023-01-10T12:48:00+00:00

A former police chief has been appointed chair of England’s most under-pressure ambulance trust.

Matthew Bryant

Trusts appoint joint CEO

2022-12-15T13:35:00+00:00

Two coastal trusts embarking on a new leadership model have appointed a joint chief executive.

Peter lewis

GP contract change needed, says CEO of integrated trust

2022-09-15T05:00:00+01:00

Changes are needed to national GP contracts in order to deliver better integrated care, according to the chief executive of trusts spanning acute, primary and mental health services.

Peter lewis

Hospital picks new private partner after firm’s sudden liquidation

2022-09-12T05:01:00+01:00

An integrated trust has appointed a new provider of its diagnostic centre following the collapse of Rutherford Health in June.

Waiting room

Revealed: NHS England’s list of trusts with worst elective and cancer problems

2022-08-19T06:07:00+01:00

Almost a third of acute trusts have been identified by NHS England as being ‘at risk’ of missing key targets for electives and cancer recovery, with some facing ‘periodic calls between ministers and CEOs’, HSJ can reveal.

Minehead Medical Centre

GPs reject joining trust in favour of ‘John Lewis’ model

2022-07-26T10:49:00+01:00

A GP surgery is believed to have become the first practice in England to switch to a ‘John Lewis’ ownership model after rejecting the prospect of joining its local integrated NHS trust.

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

Exclusive: ‘Outrageous’ long A&E waits for mental health patients increase 150pc

2022-07-19T03:24:00+01:00

Mental health patients who arrive at emergency departments in crisis are increasingly facing ‘outrageous’ long waits for an inpatient bed, with some being forced to wait several days.