University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Hospital beds

Revealed: The trusts struggling most with delayed discharge ‘interface’ problems

2024-10-02T05:00:00+01:00

The trusts struggling most on the number of delayed discharges caused by so-called “interface issues” between acute and other care services – mostly negotiations over care packages – are revealed by a new dataset.

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.

Mark_Hackett

Interim CEO to stay on after ‘driving improvements’ at challenged trust

2024-08-14T04:05:00+01:00

The interim chief executive of one of England’s most challenged trusts has agreed to stay on for at least a year longer than originally planned.

Richard Crompton - Chairman

Former chief constable named chair of trust

2024-07-05T06:54:00+01:00

A former chief constable has been appointed to chair an ambulance trust which has seen huge response time delays in recent years.

Derriford hospital

Lack of supplier ‘competition’ driving up costs of ‘new hospitals’

2024-06-26T11:40:00+01:00

Supply chain problems have hampered two of the earliest projects being pursued under the New Hospital Programme, HSJ has discovered.

Computer data

Whole health system’s IT goes down

2024-06-11T15:24:00+01:00

An ICS is dealing with a “catastrophic” IT failure that is believed to have affected all health providers in the region.

Nick Carding 2023

West Country Chronicle: How an ICB became the best place to work (again)

2024-04-29T11:06:00+01:00

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A&E problem trusts targeted for tech investment

2024-04-22T11:42:00+01:00

Some of the worst-performing trusts for emergency care performance are set to get funding from NHS England to help manage patient flow through hospital.

Tim Briggs

NHSE director lined up for trust with worst A&E problems

2024-04-19T11:30:00+01:00

An NHS England director is set to be appointed to the board of a trust with some of the worst A&E problems in recent years, including the most hours lost to ambulance handover delays last year.

Nick Carding 2023

West Country Chronicle: An ICB finds inspiration in Brazil

2024-03-27T18:16:00+00:00

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Ambulance

Fumes from idling ambulances stuck outside A&Es endangering staff

2024-03-27T13:08:00+00:00

An ambulance trust is having to protect its staff from the effects of fumes – including potential cancer risk – as they are spending so long in their vehicles outside hospitals.

Mark_Hackett

Long-time provider CEO joins struggling trust

2024-03-08T04:09:00+00:00

One of the worst performing acute trusts for emergency care has appointed a new interim leader who comes from an eight-year break from English CEO roles.

Nick Carding 2023

West Country Chronicle: Where four out of five CEOs are new

2024-03-04T14:05:00+00:00

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Long-serving CEO leaves trust fighting huge A&E problems

2024-02-08T15:36:00+00:00

The long-serving chief executive of a trust which is one of the worst performers nationally on emergency care has announced she is resigning.

Nick Carding 2023

West Country Chronicle: A £2.5m bureaucratic nightmare

2024-02-05T13:09:00+00:00

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Nick Carding 2023

West Country Chronicle: New year, same story?

2024-01-08T12:31:00+00:00

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Sarah Jane Marsh

Exclusive: NHSE crackdown on 10-hour ambulance delays

2023-12-18T19:59:00+00:00

NHS England has launched a new crackdown on trusts it says have a ‘management strategy’ to hold patients in the back of ambulances to cope with emergency pressures inside their hospitals, HSJ has learned.

Ambulance

Ambulance handover delays soar as winter bites

2023-12-14T12:13:00+00:00

Ambulance handover delays rose last week with close to 13,000 crews waiting more than an hour to offload patients — marginally more than the comparable week last year.

Ambulance

Health secretary told to intervene over ‘systemic’ ambulance deaths

2023-12-01T04:44:00+00:00

Ministers must intervene over systemic failures which are ‘too big for hospital or ambulance trusts to fix on their own’ and have led to multiple preventable deaths, a senior coroner has warned.

Derriford hospital

Hospital management criticised over helipad death

2023-11-02T19:19:00+00:00

A trust failed to identify risks associated with a helipad in one of its car parks, contributing to the death of an elderly woman who was blown over as a heavy search and rescue helicopter came into land.