The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

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City’s five trusts to form £2bn ‘group’

A city’s five acute and specialist trusts have agreed to form a major £2bn hospital “group”.

Liz Bishop

Trust chief and cancer leader retiring after 40 years

The chief executive of two specialist trusts has announced her retirement less than a year after taking up the second of the roles.

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City’s trusts agree to joint committee after ICB intervention

Five trusts in the city with the most separate NHS providers have agreed to form a joint committee at the request of the region’s integrated care board.

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Two trusts in city with ‘hospital for every part of body’ to merge CEO role

The city with five separate specialist trusts will see two of its trusts share a single chief executive from early next year.

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North by North West: PwC to review system’s ‘£800m deficit’

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North by North West: Liverpool promises to change

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Trust merger ‘bedevilled with problems’, says key proponent

One of the key proponents of a major trust merger has told HSJ its implementation has been “bedevilled with problems”, and that leaders have so far failed to deliver its benefits.

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Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target

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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North by North West: Why the North West waits

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NHSE prompts ICS review of city’s hospitals

NHS England has asked for an independent review to look into the configuration of hospital services in a city with six separate acute and specialist trusts.

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Cancer recovery target will be missed, says national leader

The NHS will miss its target to return cancer treatment waits to pre-covid levels by next March, a national cancer leader has said.

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£2bn ‘hospital group’ under discussion

The prospect of creating a £2bn ‘group’ of hospital providers in Liverpool is under formal discussion, senior sources have told HSJ.

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and Royal Devon & Exeter NHSFT joined the NHSE/I Enhanced Supportive Care pilot in 2016, promoting earlier implementation of supportive/palliative care within cancer care to prevent and manage adverse effects of cancer and cancer treatment. Since 2019 our collaborative has analysed the most comprehensive ESC data available, ...

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Trust complains of ‘very harsh’ exclusion from national costing report

Fourteen trusts have had their financial data excluded from a national survey of spending due to accounting errors, in a process that one described as ‘very harsh’.

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North by North West: Why Liverpool missed out

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North by North West: Going electronic

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North by North West: Capital boosts

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North by North West: No case to answer

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North by North West: Groupthink

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