News – Page 546
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NewsDaily Insight: Trusts have 'no excuse' for not tackling inequality
HSJ’s round-up of the day’s must read stories
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HSJ LocalDeficit trust borrowing £95m to cover overspend
A £539m turnover trust will need to borrow £95.5m in 2017-18 to achieve its financial targets, it has revealed.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts performing worst against race equality target
Papworth Hospital Foundation Trust was the worst trust in England for racial bias in its formal disciplinary process last financial year.
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NewsData reveals lack of progress in reducing race discrimination in NHS
The NHS has seen a slight improvement in how black and minority ethnic staff are treated compared to white colleagues since 2016 but the latest data stills shows there is “much, much more work to do”.
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HSJ LocalJobs withdrawn from former trust chief amid investigations
Former Wirral University Teaching Hospital chief executive David Allison has had his offer of a secondment with NHS Improvement withdrawn.
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NewsHSIB chief rejects plan for trusts to investigate themselves
The chief investigator of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has rejected the government’s plan to allow NHS trusts to use its powers to investigate themselves.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Cardiologist at troubled trust dismissed after sexual harassment allegation
A consultant cardiologist at Wirral University Hospital Foundation Trust was dismissed for gross misconduct after allegations he had sexually harassed three junior doctors, HSJ has learned.
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NewsFirst baby death investigation reports released within weeks
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch’s first draft investigation reports into avoidable baby deaths and harm could be available to trusts within eight weeks, the chief investigator has said.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief executive to retire in March
The chief executive of an acute and community trust is to retire at the end of March.
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HSJ LocalCCG given ultimatum to join regional committee
A clinical commissioning group has three months to decide if it will join the region’s strategic joint committee of CCGs.
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HSJ LocalStruggling CCG's deficit spirals for second year running
A struggling clinical commissioning group has seen its forecast deficit spiral for the second year in a row, more than quadrupling to £20m for 2017-18.
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NewsRegulator to rate GP app providers from this year
The Care Quality Commission has been given powers to rate providers of GP apps to “bring increased transparency” about their quality and safety.
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NewsUpdated: National chiefs order emergency measures as winter pressure cranks up
National NHS officials today ordered an extended moratorium on non-urgent hospital operations, and other significant measures to try to deal with “sustained pressure” on the emergency care system.
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NewsTrust chiefs recognised in new year's honours
The chief executive of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust is among the senior NHS figures named in the new year’s honours list.
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HSJ LocalFormer NHSI director to be chief executive of struggling trust
A former director for NHS Improvement has been appointed as chief executive of a trust in special measures.
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NewsReview of the year: The best HSJ Expert Briefings
Over Christmas and new year, we are bringing you a round-up of some of HSJ’s highlights from 2017. Today we look at our Expert Briefing newsletters.
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HSJ LocalFour deaths linked to ambulance delays
A coroner is probing four deaths – including one of a month old baby – which all occurred this year and all involved delayed responses from an ambulance trust in special measures.
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NewsReview of the year: Best of the 2017 awards and power lists
Over Christmas and new year, we are bringing you a round-up of some of HSJ’s highlights from 2017. Today we look at the HSJ award programmes and our lists of the most influential people in the English health sector.