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Matt Discombe
Matt covers performance --- especially urgent and emergency services --- as well as the North East and Yorkshire regions. During the pandemic, he has been writing about infection control in hospitals and surge capacity for the second wave.
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- matt.discombe@wilmingtonhealthcare.com
- News
Revealed: The trusts with the longest discharge delays
Patients are waiting over two weeks in hospital after their “ready for discharge” date at some trusts – more than double the average delay, according to new NHS England data.
- News
Long waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target
The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.
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Major hospital trust to share chair with neighbour
A major hospital trust will later this month become the latest to share a chair with a neighbouring provider.
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Trust ‘exited’ 170 staff in three years due to poor behaviour
An ambulance chief has said his trust “exited” more than 170 staff due to culture and behavioural problems in the last three years.
- CEO Interview
CEO interview: Suzanne Rankin, chief executive, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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New hospitals’ design ‘unlikely’ to deliver patient benefits, says £1bn project
Government plans to standardise designs of new hospitals will be “unlikely” to deliver any benefits to patients at one of its biggest projects, according to the teaching trust overseeing the scheme.
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Labour warned against ‘disruptive’ move to ‘bypass ICSs’
The NHS Confederation chief executive has warned Labour against “bypassing” integrated care systems in pursuit of elective care targets, if the party forms the next government.
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ICS drops alternative payment system in favour of ‘payment by results’
A health system that trialled an innovative funding mechanism that deviated significantly from “payment by results” has dropped the scheme after just one year.
- Expert Briefing
A&E boss: 40% of patients at major A&Es don’t need to be there
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 HSJ senior correspondent Matt Discombe
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Use your ‘operational muscle’ to improve performance urges NHSE director
Commissioners and providers must get back their “operational process muscle” and use it to drive improvements to care, NHS England’s emergency care lead has told HSJ.
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40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent
Fourty per cent of the £150m capital funding pot NHS England made available to incentivise urgent and emergency care improvements was not distributed, data shown to HSJ reveals.
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A&Es not being overwhelmed by ‘low acuity’ patients, NHSE review finds
An NHS England review has found the proportion of ‘low acuity’ patients attending emergency departments is far smaller than expected.
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Building a hospital ‘not difficult’, says re-elected mayor
A mayor is planning to launch a consultation to build a new hospital the government says he has no powers to build – claiming the project “doesn’t seem difficult”.
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Long-waiters fall by a third despite ‘stubbornly high’ elective list
Trusts cut the number 65-week breaches by 35 per cent between February and March, reducing the long waiter cohort significantly from around 75,000 to around 49,000, according to NHS England’s monthly data.
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Trust names former social care director as CEO
A community trust has appointed a director with a background in social care and the third sector to be its new chief executive.
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NHSE director lined up for trust with worst A&E problems
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.
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A&E target missed despite tough line from NHSE
The headline A&E target was missed in March, despite NHS England’s controversial last-ditch attempts to deliver it.
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Trust is waging ‘witch hunt’ against own director, alleges MP
An MP has accused the leadership of her local trust of orchestrating a “witch hunt” against one of its own directors and manipulating a recruitment process to ensure the CEO’s “preferred” candidate was shortlisted for an executive position.
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NHSE regional director to retire
The longest-serving NHS England regional director is retiring after four decades in the health service.
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Trusts face threat of legal action due to new quality standards
Trusts could be exposed to increased negligence claims as a result of new NHS England guidance for a rare spinal condition, a royal college has claimed.