All MEDWAY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST articles – Page 3
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NewsDeputy chief gets England’s biggest hospital job
UPDATED: The deputy chief executive of Barts Health Trust has been promoted to be joint CEO of the trust and its neighbour, one of the biggest jobs in the English hospital system.
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NewsGap between best and worst cancer performers widens
The gap between the best and worst-performing health systems for cancer has widened during the pandemic, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsChief revealed for large hospital trust
The former chief medical officer of a large multisite trust is set to be confirmed as its new chief executive, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ InteractiveWhat role can non-clinical support services play in helping the NHS recover after covid?
An HSJ webinar delved into how non-clinical support services have evolved during the pandemic, and their role in improving the patient experience. Alison Moore reports
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NewsJavid approves hospital reconfiguration after two year delay
Sajid Javid has given the go-ahead to a controversial stroke reconfiguration, more than two years after plans were agreed by the NHS locally.
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Trust warns it could lose junior doctors
An acute trust is warning that some of its junior doctors could be withdrawn, putting patient safety at risk.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2021: Acute Service Redesign Initiative
WINNER: Medway FT: Get It Right First Time: Incorporating Covid-19 The Consultant Nurse wrote and delivered a workforce strategy that over a five-year period would transform the capability and career potential of the nursing workforce. Workforce development was supported through the delivery of two interlinked work-based courses. Learning outcomes focused ...
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NewsFour ICSs and four trusts placed in new ‘special measures’ regime
Four health systems have been put into NHS England’s replacement for the special measures regime, as well as four more acute trusts.
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NewsRegulator criticises covid-hit trust over infection control
Concerns have been raised about a trust’s approach to infection prevention and control issues — more than a year into the pandemic — including that it stopped screening those arriving at the hospital entrances for covid after 5pm.
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NewsMedway chief executive to join NHS Confederation
The chief executive who is leaving Medway Foundation Trust is to take up a new role at the NHS Confederation.
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NewsMedical leader made chief exec at trust hard hit by covid
The medical director of a successful foundation trust is being brought in to run Medway Foundation Trust for 18 months.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: What the PM’s new health team means for the NHS
Boris Johnson has appointed a new health adviser, well known to NHS health policy circles. Samantha Jones – former NHS England director and hospital chief – is to leave the private sector and move into the civil service.
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NewsChief to leave trust at centre of winter covid surge
The chief executive of one of the NHS’ most troubled trusts is to leave shortly — a few weeks after a critical Care Quality Commission report into its emergency department services.
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NewsPatients left waiting after specialist trust closed outpost centre 20 miles away
Scores of patients have been left waiting more than a year for treatment and hundreds more making lengthy journeys, after a specialist foundation trust closed its outpost treatment centre based in another trust 20 miles away.
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NewsUpdated: CEO’s email ‘contributed to low morale’ at covid-hit A&E
Staff at a hard-pressed accident and emergency department were left feeling demoralised and unsupported by the actions of the senior leadership team, the Care Quality Commission has found.
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NewsCQC intervenes at trust hardest hit by covid
The Care Quality Commission has issued a warning notice over emergency care delays — particularly ambulance handovers — to one of the trusts hardest hit by coronavirus pressures in recent months.
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NewsPandemic’s role blamed for trust’s 1,955 mixed-sex ward breaches
East Kent University Hospitals Foundation Trust reported 1,955 mixed sex accommodation breaches in November, the month before the new variant of the virus caused a huge increase in covid admissions across the county.
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NewsRevealed: the nine hospital trusts where covid patients fill at least half the beds
Nine English NHS trusts now have at least half their adult acute beds occupied by covid-positive patients, with admissions still growing in every case.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read stories of 2020
As 2020 draws to a close, HSJ takes a look at its most read stories of the year.
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NewsHour-plus ambulance to A&E transfers double in a week
The number of ambulance handovers taking longer than an hour have almost doubled in just one week, the latest figures have revealed.