News – Page 117
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Fears of delay to flagship ‘new hospitals’ after funding cut
Several of the ‘40 new hospitals’ promised by government face further delay and disruption because the trusts are receiving less cash than needed for crucial planning work this year, HSJ can reveal.
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Exclusive: Patient waited 24 hours in ambulance for A&E
Nearly 600 patients waited 10 hours or more in the back of an ambulance to be transferred into emergency departments last month – with one taking 24 hours, HSJ can reveal.
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Funding overhaul for mental health beds revealed
National NHS officials have proposed a major shift in the funding model for inpatient mental health beds for children and young people, information seen by HSJ reveals.
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Sharp rise in child development issues in wake of covid
Families are being ‘left without the support they need’, as overstretched services struggle to handle ‘a significant and growing minority’ of children not developing as expected.
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Revealed: Trusts where most staff withhold disability status
More than half the staff at eight trusts have either refused or failed to declare whether they consider themselves ‘disabled’, an HSJ analysis has found.
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Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in March 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Revealed: Secret stats show A&E crisis four times as bad as official numbers
New figures leaked to HSJ show the true volume of 12-hour waiters in emergency departments is more than four times as high as official statistics suggest.
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Two-year waiters fall 20pc in a month
The number of two-year waiters fell by 20 per cent in the month to 1 May, but remained above 10,000, according to provisional data.
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Tougher cancer target considered by ministers
Government is considering setting a tougher cancer diagnostic target as part of its declared ‘war on cancer’, HSJ has been told.
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NHSE tenders £30m deal for emergency ‘surge’ support
NHS England is seeking to buy extra ‘surge’ ambulance capacity from outside the NHS, amid a crisis of record-long waits for callouts in recent months.
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Waiting list jumps as A&E chaos persists
The NHS has recorded its largest monthly increase in the waiting list for 10 months, as unprecedented challenges in urgent and emergency care continue to disrupt recovery.
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Blowing whistle on trust CEO ‘hardest thing I’ve had to do’, says his successor
A trust chief who blew the whistle on her predecessor’s ‘aggressive’ behaviour and lack of interest in patient safety says it was the hardest thing she has had to do in her career.
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Disabled staff nearly twice as likely to face performance management
Disabled NHS staff are nearly twice as likely to face formal questions over their ability to do their job than their non-disabled colleagues, an NHS England report has revealed.
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NHSE staff survey delivers damning verdict on People Directorate
NHS England’s People Directorate recorded consistently poor results across the great majority of key measures according to the organisation’s annual Staff Survey, HSJ has discovered
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Troubled acute appoints council chief as CEO
A major acute trust in the East Midlands has appointed the chief executive of the local county council to be its new chief executive.
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NHS England gives up on A&E ‘tents’ plan
NHS England has given up telling trusts to erect ‘tents’ outside emergency departments to help cope with the ambulance handover crisis, according to senior medics.
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‘One last chance to get it right’ for ‘inadequate’ trust, says chair
The chair of what may be England’s most challenged trust has rejected suggestions that it needs a ‘wholesale reorganisation’ but said it is on its ‘last chance to get it right’.
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Staff warn of ‘worsening’ culture at beleaguered trust
The culture at a long-troubled ambulance trust is ‘worsening, not improving’, its staff have told a health watchdog.
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Retired CEO to lead trust with ‘deep-seated’ cultural problems
A trust found by a review to have ‘multiple’ corporate governance problems and ‘deep-seated’ cultural issues has appointed a recently retired chief executive as its new chair.
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New NHSE regional director appointed
Clare Panniker has been appointed as the new NHS England regional director for the East of England, HSJ has learned.