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NHSE sets trusts ‘100-day challenge’ to reduce delayed discharges
NHS England has set trusts and systems a ‘100-day challenge’ to discharge more patients from hospital and free up beds before winter.
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Revealed: The trusts where at least one in 20 suspected cancer patients have waited three months
More than 5 per cent of patients with suspected cancer have been waiting more than 104 days at 14 trusts, data leaked to HSJ reveals.
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Exclusive: Three-month cancer waits top 10,000
More than 10,000 people are waiting three months or longer following a referral for suspected cancer, internal NHS data seen by HSJ reveals.
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Exclusive: High covid rates spark blood supply ‘crisis’
The organisation which supplies blood to hospitals is in ‘crisis mode’ due to its stock falling to severely low levels, HSJ has learned.
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ICSs are an ‘NHS steamroller’, says ‘disrespected’ council leader
The establishment of integrated care systems has been compared to an ‘NHS steamroller coming down on us with a heavy hand’ by the leader of a Conservative council.
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Trust delays opening of Carillion-hit hospital again
A major new NHS hospital has been delayed again after local chiefs announced a revised opening date
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Major trust appoints hospital CEO
A major trust has appointed a permanent chief executive to one of its largest hospitals.
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Exclusive: Drive to reduce hospital waiting lists endangered as trusts struggle to raise activity
Elective activity levels are still significantly below those achieved before the pandemic, despite the high profile and government-led drive to recover services.
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Covid hospital patients double in a month
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals more than doubled in June.
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Non-executive directors took over aspects of running struggling trust, review finds
A trust’s executive and non-executive roles were ‘confused’ and board members behaved in a way which was ‘not aligned” with trust values, an external review has found.
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Trust boards instructed to ‘scrutinise’ sepsis data by NHSE
Trust boards should start scrutinising performance against new indicators set out by NHS England this month as part of a national push to iron out unwarranted variation in performance on key sepsis blood tests, according to an NHSE report
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Clinician appointed hospital’s new chief executive
A new chief executive has been appointed to one of England’s largest hospitals
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Trusts left with valueless company shares given in exchange for patient data
Several NHS trusts are reviewing their data-sharing agreements with a technology company after their shares in the firm were rendered currently worthless following its financial collapse
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ICB chair: Slimming down boards will be ‘really difficult’
NHS England is right to question whether emerging integrated care boards with large memberships can be run effectively, a system leader in the capital has said.
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CQC prosecutes troubled provider over death of teenage girl
A struggling mental health trust is being prosecuted over accusations it failed to protect a teenager at a children’s inpatient unit.
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Government plans new ‘regulatory levers’ to force pace of NHS’s digital uptake
Digital improvement will be added to the conditions which trusts and integrated care systems have to legally meet as part of their operating licence, the government has indicated.
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Revealed: The 10 ICSs which account for two-thirds of two-year waits
HSJ analysis of NHS England data has revealed the systems which are the furthest away from the target of eliminating all two-year waits for treatment by the end of July.
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NHS England appoints chief workforce officer to lead expanded department
NHS England has appointed a new chief officer for its people directorate, following the departure of Prerana Issar earlier this year, HSJ has learned.
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Patient safety is not a ‘priority’ for NHSE, claims watchdog chief
The outgoing chief investigator of the national safety watchdog has described his frustration with the organisation’s ‘ambivalent’ relationship with NHS England
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Treasury adviser who said northerners should be paid less moves to DHSC
An adviser to chancellor Rishi Sunak who has sparked controversy over past comments on economic policy is to move to the Department of Health and Social Care