Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

Ambulance

Emergency performance dips as winter nears

2024-10-10T11:00:00+01:00

Ambulance response times rose dramatically last month with urgent care performance also worsening as winter appeared to strike early.

North by North West: ICB small print reveals raft of new treatment restrictions

2024-06-03T12:10:00+01:00

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Lawrence Dunhill 2023

North by North West: Skin in the game

2024-03-25T13:23:00+00:00

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Lawrence Dunhill 2023

North by North West: Coming up with the wrong answer

2024-03-11T11:53:00+00:00

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Mary Fleming October 2023

Digitising patient flow is the key to releasing operational capacity

2024-03-11T05:12:00+00:00

Mary Fleming, CEO, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals FT, writes about the digital solutions undertaken by the trust to tackle patient flow challenges, and thus enhance care, staff wellbeing, and operational efficiency

Mary Fleming

Trust appoints deputy as permanent CEO

2024-03-11T05:05:00+00:00

A leader who began her career as an admin clerk has been given the top job at an acute trust.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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.

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

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.

Lawrence Dunhill 2023

The Download: Beware costly assumptions about virtual care

2024-02-20T13:20:00+00:00

The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Lawrence Dunhill.

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Discharging patients to virtual ward led to near-doubling of costs, study finds

2024-01-25T05:26:00+00:00

Researchers have found the cost impact of discharging patients to a virtual ward was almost double that of traditional inpatient care.

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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.

Adam Doyle

HSJ’s 10 most-read integration stories of 2023

2023-12-28T03:07:00+00:00

As 2023 turns into 2024, we look at the integration stories which climbed their way up the most-read list this year

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NHSE warns widely used EPR could pose ‘serious risks to patient safety’

2023-12-08T11:09:00+00:00

NHS England has issued a national alert to all trusts providing maternity services after faults were discovered in IT software that could pose “potential serious risks to patient safety”.

Lawrence Dunhill 2023

North by North West: Trusts prepare for fight over maternity

2023-12-04T12:35:00+00:00

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Silas Nicholls CEO

‘Arms race’ between trusts led to ICS’s financial collapse, says CEO

2023-12-04T04:53:00+00:00

A struggling health system has failed to collaborate on key issues due to a hangover from the ‘clinical arms race’ by its providers, a chief executive has said.

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Headcount rise of 4,000 ‘not readily explainable’ by troubled ICS

2023-11-15T12:26:00+00:00

The hiring of several thousand staff in a financially troubled health system was found to be ‘not readily explainable’ and well beyond the increases reported by similar areas.

Silas Nicholls CEO

Experienced chief moves to fourth trust

2023-10-04T03:54:00+01:00

An experienced chief executive who ran his system’s “gold command” covid-19 response has been named as the new boss of a teaching trust whose previous leader has moved to Gibraltar.

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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.

Andrew Foster

Tributes after death of ‘strong, fair and compassionate’ NHS chief

2023-03-21T17:56:00+00:00

Tributes have been paid after the death of a ‘strong, fair and compassionate leader’ who was chief executive of a North West acute trust for 12 years, and previously a director in the Department of Health.