All London articles – Page 9
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NewsEx-national director to lead ICS group
The former medical director of NHS Improvement – who now holds several local board roles – is to become chair of the national NHS Integrated Care System network.
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NewsNorth West gets biggest share of emergency care fund
The government has announced 54 areas getting a share of a £40m fund to help with urgent and emergency care this winter, with the North West receiving nearly four times as much as a neighbouring region.
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NewsStiffer stroke target introduced – despite failure to meet old standard
The failure of trusts to offer stroke patients the level of rehab required by standards introduced 10 years ago has not prevented the publication of new guidance which demands even higher performance.
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NewsRevealed: Official data masking long waits for the sickest patients
Several trusts are failing to admit their sickest emergency patients in a timely fashion, despite performing well in official waiting time statistics, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Paramedics unable to work as recruitment outstrips ambulance numbers
Up to 50 ambulance crews are unable to go out on the road in London every day because the service does not have enough vehicles for its increasing workforce, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Missing the police
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsExclusive: Dozens of new ambulances delayed after supplier goes bust
The delivery of more than 100 new ambulances to the NHS could be delayed ahead of winter after the company paid to supply them went into administration, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Outstanding’ hospital CEO to leave after 18 months
An acute trust chief executive is retiring next spring after a year-and-a-half in post.
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News‘Design compromise’ for new-build hospitals due to funding shortfalls
Trusts in the ‘new hospital programme’ will have to make significant compromises to their projects unless the Treasury can be persuaded to release billions more in funding, sources have told HSJ.
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NewsSystem agrees 10% bed base increase to ease A&E crisis
An integrated care system is planning to open between 70 and 100 addtional mental health beds to deal with a crisis in capacity.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The new 2,000
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News‘Excess deaths’ due to A&E delays rise by nearly a third in one year
Long waits in A&E departments may have caused around 30,000 ‘excess deaths’ last year, according to new estimates.
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NewsLabour policy figure to chair three trusts
An influential left-wing policy figure is set to chair three community and mental health trusts.
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HSJ LocalSingle ‘group’ team will run seven hospitals
Two major trusts have announced they will move to a single executive team and board over the next 18 months, across the seven hospitals they operate.
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NewsManager called colleague a ‘megabitch’ in alleged ‘campaign of bullying’, review finds
An external review has found that two managers at a mental health trust should answer allegations they bullied and victimised a colleague.
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NewsThird of largest trusts do not know their carbon footprint
More than a third of the largest NHS trusts are still unable to state the size of their full carbon footprint, despite it being three years since the national plan for ‘net zero’ was established.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The capital’s most challenged service
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsHospitals close areas after discovering RAAC planks
More hospitals have closed parts of their site after discovering potentially unsafe concrete had been used in the building structures, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust’s £9m gift to charity reveals governance ‘weakness’
A trust donated £9m to its charity without the permission of NHS England or the Treasury.
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NewsTrust appoints group chief executive
Royal Free London Foundation Trust has confirmed Peter Landstrom as its substantive group chief executive.