All London articles – Page 25
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Third week of August
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsNightingale deaths lead to warning over ‘confusion’ around ventilator equipment
Two patients died while being treated at London’s Nightingale Hospital amid what a coroner has described as ‘widespread confusion’ around some of the equipment used for ventilation machines.
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News‘Scared’ patients left ‘unable to seek timely treatment’ by trust’s charging approach
A trust has apologised after an independent review found some of its patients were left feeling “uncomfortable, scared or unable to seek timely treatment” by its approach to charging for NHS treatment.
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NewsTrust director sacked after investigation into bogus law degree
A trust director has been sacked after it emerged he did not hold a masters of law degree, despite two annual reports stating he did.
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NewsTroubled trust appoints new CEO
A mental health trust has appointed a permanent chief executive after a previous candidate withdrew his application for the role following an inquiry into his qualifications.
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NewsAmbulance trust chief quits and is replaced by hospital boss
London Ambulance Service Trust’s chief executive is to step down this summer and will be replaced by an acute trust boss on a secondment basis.
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NewsNHSE to publish the carbon footprint of every trust and ICS
NHS England will publish each integrated care system’s carbon footprint before October, under plans to track progress against the health service’s sustainability programme.
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HSJ LocalNew chief executive for hospital trust
A north London specialist trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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HSJ LocalInspectors heavily criticise trust leaders after being ‘shouted at by staff’
A maternity unit has been heavily criticised by regulators after they were told of ‘multiple allegations of bullying’ and staff being afraid to raise concerns.
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NewsTrust racially discriminated against staff member who was refused specialist training
A trust racially discriminated against a biomedical scientist by refusing to allow him to undertake training, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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HSJ LocalHospital brings cleaning and catering in-house to ‘support minority ethnic communities’
An acute trust has brought their cleaning and catering contracts back in house to boost workforce equality and support staff from minority ethnic communities.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Fourth wave blues
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsRegulator warns trust over serious safety concerns
Regulators ordered a trust to take immediate action after it found junior doctors were seeing acute inpatients alone, the year after a psychiatric patient stabbed a doctor at one of the provider’s hospitals.
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NewsRevealed: Most People Board chairs are women or have minority ethnic background
Half of the chairs of the new regional People Boards are from a minority ethnic background and the majority are also female, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsDozens of hospitals hit dangerous bed occupancy levels
Dozens of acute trusts have operated at very high levels of bed occupancy in the past month, as they deal with a surge in non-covid patients with thousands fewer beds than normal.
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NewsCoastal trust hires two London hospital chiefs
The interim chief executive of a London hospital is to take up the post of managing director at a large coastal trust.
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NewsRevealed: the London trusts yet to vaccinate a quarter of their staff
There is a gap of around 30 percentage points in staff uptake of the covid-19 vaccination between different London trusts, according to figures seen by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingHospital group chief installed at neighbouring trust
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsAlert over hospital air devices after 120 ‘never events’
NHS trusts are to be told to remove devices linked to more than 120 never events caused by ‘unconscious errors’.
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NewsEx-teaching trust CEO joins NHS property quango
A former teaching trust CEO who quit amid financial turmoil, plus a recently departed acute chair, have become directors at NHS Property Services.