All articles by Matt Discombe – Page 8
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Deaths inquiry will exclude dozens of concerning cases, says whistleblower
An inquiry into alleged efforts to cover up care failings at an ambulance trust has been criticised by a key whistleblower for being too limited in scope.
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NHSE plans 24-hour target for new hospital discharge service
NHS England is developing plans for a new universal ‘community recovery service’’ with a 24-hour target to provide ‘step down care’ once a patient is deemed ready to leave hospital, HSJ can reveal.
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‘Sack poor NHS managers’, says new government adviser
An MP who has just become a ministerial assistant in the Department of Health and Social Care has called for ‘underperforming’ NHS managers to be ‘sacked’, claiming some executives in the health service earn up to £500,000 per year.
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Coffey: ICBs should not work against ‘our health providers’
Therese Coffey has said the partnership between her department and the national and local NHS will be crucial, and that integrated care boards should be its ‘eyes and ears on the ground, working in partnership not against our health providers’.
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Trusts ‘rationing’ crisis support as only seven ICSs achieve service expansion
Only a handful of integrated care systems have so far managed to implement a key expansion in their support for patients in mental health crisis.
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Coffey accused of leaving NHS ‘in limbo’ on A&E target
The four-hour emergency care target is ‘not the right answer’ long term, but services have been left ‘in limbo’ by Therese Coffey’s promise that it will no longer be scrapped, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said.
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Exclusive: Coffey warned of ‘significant risk’ posed by CQC restructuring
Staff at the Care Quality Commission have been left ‘in fear of speaking out’ against structural changes to the organisation which they believe ‘pose a significant risk’ to the CQC’s ability to regulate health services, trade unions have told the health and social care secretary.
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‘Four-hour rush’ continuing at top A&Es
Hospital trusts are still treating many patients just before the four-hour A&E target deadline, whose proposed abolition was reversed by government yesterday, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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Coffey promises ‘absolutely no changes to four-hour A&E target’
Therese Coffey has pledged there will be no changes to the four-hour target for A&E waiting times – despite NHS England’s prolonged bid to axe the controversial measure.
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‘Gross’ care delays could become ‘new normal’, says CQC report
The Care Quality Commission today urged system leaders to move away from “quick fixes” to the “enormous gap in resources and capacity” in urgent and emergency care.
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Lawyers warned trust that staff could ‘pick and choose’ documents for coroners
An ambulance trust accused of withholding key evidence from coroners was previously warned its staff needed training to ‘understand the real risk of committing criminal offences’ in relation to inquests into patient deaths.
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NHS cuts 18-month waits but concerns over key target remain
NHS trusts again recorded a month-on-month reduction in the number of patients waiting over 78 weeks for treatment, although the flagship target to eliminate this cohort by March remains a tall order, with winter pressures set to crank up.
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Truss move to cut management would ‘get in way’ of progress, says top CEO
Liz Truss’s desire to talk about cutting management in the NHS will get in the way of more important conversations about the future operating model of the health service, a respected system leader has said.
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‘Life threatening’ risk to clinically vulnerable after firms disconnect energy supply, warns NHS chief
A senior NHS leader has warned of a “life-threatening” situation in which clinically vulnerable people are being admitted to hospital after having their energy supplies disconnected.
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Top CEO announces retirement
The chief executive of Gateshead Health Foundation Trust, Yvonne Ormston, has announced her retirement.
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Patients fit for discharge stuck in hospital for up to nine months
Medically fit patients are waiting up to nine months to be discharged from some NHS hospitals as increasing numbers of working age people develop more complex conditions amid ongoing social care shortages.
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Trust criticised for ‘extreme positivity’ and drops two ratings to ‘inadequate’
Senior leaders of an ambulance trust have been told their ‘extreme positivity’ has made them appear ‘out of touch’ as the Care Quality Commission downgraded the organisation’s rating to ‘inadequate’.
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Exclusive: Barclay summons six hospital chiefs over ambulance delays
Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay today called in chief executives of the six worst-performing trusts for ambulance handover delays to ‘ensure accountability’ for addressing the issue, HSJ can reveal.
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CEO promises ‘long hard look at myself’ if A&E performance still bottom of table next year
The chief executive of the trust with the worst A&E performance in England has said he will ‘have a long, hard look at myself’ if sustainable improvements are not made by next year.
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Revealed: NHS England’s list of trusts with worst elective and cancer problems
Almost a third of acute trusts have been identified by NHS England as being ‘at risk’ of missing key targets for electives and cancer recovery, with some facing ‘periodic calls between ministers and CEOs’, HSJ can reveal.