News – Page 46
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NewsTrust appoints neighbour’s chair after 16-month search
A trust with long-standing leadership and performance problems has appointed a neighbouring provider’s chair, after 16 months of temporary arrangements.
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NewsICBs will have to merge, says ex-NHSE chief
Some integrated care boards will need to merge in order to cut their running costs in half, according to Sir David Nicholson — leaving trust groups such as the one he now chairs well placed to organise local services.
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HSJ LocalThree trusts to share chair
Three trusts are set to share a chair as part of their efforts to work more closely together under the Great North Healthcare Alliance.
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NewsICBs in dispute with provider over ‘ticking timebomb’ drug costs
Multiple NHS commissioners are embroiled in a legal row with a private company they say is “intensively” marketing its online weight-loss drugs service, which could cost them hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
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News‘Reform standstill’ threatened over ICB cuts
Service reform and “strategic commissioning” may be “brought to a standstill” by steep cuts to integrated care boards, leaders have warned.
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NewsTrust reviewing 800 cases over child surgery failures
A large teaching trust has launched reviews of surgery on nearly 800 patients operated on by a children’s orthopaedic surgeon – and whether concerns raised 10 years ago could have prevented harm.
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NewsNHSE director leaves to run FT’s subco
A senior procurement director at NHS England is leaving this summer to run the wholly-owned subsidiary of a large London acute trust.
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HSJ LocalCEO: Staff suffering ‘moral injury’ from poor estates
Staff are suffering “moral injury” as deteriorating estates disrupt their ability to provide care, a chief executive whose hospital rebuild has been delayed has warned.
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NewsFDP supplier eyes UK-wide data system
US technology supplier Palantir has called on the UK government to adopt a “common operating system” linking healthcare data with other sources such as the Department for Work and Pensions.
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NewsNHSE ‘ignoring trusts’ pleas for fair funding’
Mental health and community trust bosses have warned they could be forced to cut services because they may lose out under the formula used to distribute pay rise funding.
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NewsCEO takes charge of neighbouring hospital
The chief executive of a district general hospital trust is to take on the leadership of its neighbour, initially for a temporary period.
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NewsWinners of HSJ Partnership and inaugural Independent Healthcare Providers Awards revealed
The inaugural HSJ Independent Healthcare Providers Awards took place alongside the HSJ Partnership Awards last night at Evolution London.
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NewsTrust CEO attacks ‘devastating’ benefits cuts
Government reveals highly controversial welfare cuts Tightening PIP criteria expected to impact more than 2 million people Reforms will inflict “huge psychological damage” on disabled people, says trust CEO Controversial welfare cuts could strip support from disabled people and have a “devastating impact”, a trust chief executive has ...
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NewsCQC needs to pay inspectors more, says chair
The Care Quality Commission’s incoming chair says it needs to pay more to recruit experienced inspectors.
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NewsNew hospitals chief moves to NHSE
The head of the New Hospital Programme is set to move to a new role within the programme from next month, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust ‘slow and bureaucratic’ in tackling deficit
A trust under NHS England’s highest level of scrutiny has been “slow and bureaucratic” in response to its poor financial position, and hampered by “diametrically opposed views” among staff, a report has found.
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News‘Foundation ICSs’ considered for 10-Year Plan
Ministers have been advised to create a “foundation” status for high-performing integrated care systems by one of their policy groups – shortly before government decided to slash 50 per cent from systems’ management costs – HSJ has been told.
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NewsThirlwall: Guilty or not there was ‘total failure of safeguarding’ at Letby trust
Lady Thirlwall has rejected calls from senior managers to pause the official inquiry into the deaths of infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
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NewsExclusive: Streeting brings in adviser for neighbourhood health
Wes Streeting has hired a former GP who led a review into integrated care for Labour while the party was in opposition to advise on neighbourhood health and primary care.
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NewsStaffing vital to high hear and treat rates, say trusts
Some 30,000 emergency ambulance trips could be avoided every month if trusts provided more advice over the phone, according to NHS England figures.