Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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Revealed: Dozens more children harmed after care failures

2024-09-24T04:08:00+01:00

Dozens more children have suffered harm due to failings in audiology services, HSJ can reveal.

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Exclusive: Lack of surgery capacity adding to risk for babies and mothers

2024-07-24T04:01:00+01:00

A lack of surgery capacity at dozens of maternity units is adding to the risk of serious harm to mothers and newborn babies, HSJ has found.

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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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Recovery Watch: The trusts going Further, Faster

2024-02-28T14:14:00+00:00

Recovering services from the covid crisis is a big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by bureau chief James Illman.

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Thirty trusts report more 12-hour waits, despite national improvement

2024-02-27T12:43:00+00:00

Long A&E waits have got worse at more than one in five acute trusts, despite an improving trend nationally.

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CEO criticises NHSE for de-funding training scheme

2024-01-16T11:00:00+00:00

A trust chief executive has criticised a move by NHS England to withdraw central funding for a national training programme aimed at quality improvement.

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HSJ’s 10 most-read workforce stories of 2023

2023-12-28T05:09:00+00:00

As we prepare to part ways with 2023, we’ve taken a look back at the most-read workforce stories of the year.

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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.

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Recovery Watch: The trusts slipping the most on PM’s pledge

2023-10-04T14:04:00+01:00

Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.

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Dozens more children ‘severely’ harmed by care failures

2023-09-19T11:53:00+01:00

Dozens more children than initially thought have come to “severe” harm following failings in audiology care, HSJ can reveal.

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Trusts admit ‘severe’ harm to children

2023-09-14T04:30:00+01:00

Children have suffered severe harm at two further hospital trusts as a result of failures in paediatric audiology, HSJ can reveal.

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Trust’s claim against councils thrown out by judge

2023-08-10T13:41:00+01:00

A judge has sided with three councils and dismissed an acute trust’s legal challenge in a row over payments to offset demand pressure from thousands of new homes.

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Trust CEO leaves to join expanding hospital group

2023-08-08T11:13:00+01:00

A community trust chief executive is leaving to become the first managing director of an acute hospital which has joined an expanding provider group.

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Service ‘collapses’ after department left with ‘no doctors’

2023-07-19T11:30:00+01:00

A trust has been accused of presiding over the deterioration of a key service amid communication problems between senior leaders and a ‘worrying series of resignations’ which has left the department with ‘no doctors’.

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‘Helpless’ CEO’s report expresses ‘extreme concern’ over doctors strikes

2023-07-12T14:16:00+01:00

Acute trust leaders have expressed ‘extreme concern’ over their ability to maintain safe services in the upcoming junior doctor and consultant strikes.

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Trust mounts £2m legal challenge against councils

2023-06-30T10:57:00+01:00

An acute trust has mounted a legal challenge against three councils after its bid to secure almost £2m to offset demand pressure from thousands of new homes was rejected.

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Group CEO set to lead fourth trust

2023-05-25T12:32:00+01:00

A chief executive who already leads three trusts looks set to also take the helm at a struggling neighbouring provider, HSJ has learned.

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New CEO for £1.4bn acute trust

2023-03-22T12:42:00+00:00

The largest trust in the East of England has recruited a new chief executive with a record of leading struggling acute providers.

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Trust CEOs could ‘end up in prison’ because of ‘unsafe’ hospitals, warns chief

2023-01-17T10:56:00+00:00

An acute trust chief executive has criticised the lack of communication during last month’s nursing strike, warning that he and other accountable officers could face manslaughter charges if patients are put in danger by decisions made by senior colleagues elsewhere in the system.

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Revealed: Four trusts added to NHSE ‘help list’

2022-12-23T13:11:00+00:00

NHS England has revealed the latest list of trusts which it has identified as needing the most support to meet electives and cancer targets.