All NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG articles – Page 2
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HSJ Local
Regulator criticises 'passive and unwieldy' STP
A sustainability and transformation partnership had “not begun to function effectively” when the Care Quality Commission carried out a local system review at the end of 2017.
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HSJ Local
CCGs move to claw back cash from failed transport firm
Clinical commissioning groups in Sussex are taking legal advice on whether they can get money back from a failed patient transport operator.
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News
Exclusive: Private patient transport firm to be dissolved
A company that was heavily criticised over a shambolic patient transport services contract in Sussex is to be dissolved, Companies House has confirmed.
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HSJ Local
CCGs to share leader in move towards 'alliance'
Four clinical commissioning groups in Sussex are to share a single accountable officer as they start working as a “commissioning alliance”.
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HSJ Local
CCG pays ambulance staff wages following private provider dispute
£642,000 of goodwill payments made to ambulance workers by CCG Chief finance officer says: “We are not setting a precendent” CCG admits “there was frailty in the subcontracting market” Commissioners in Sussex paid a total of £642,000 in wages to former NHS staff after their private company employer ...
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Comment
Analysis: Commissioners have questions to answer over failed contract
The “phased withdrawal” of Coperforma from providing Sussex’s patient transport service has been greeted with a sigh of relief from unions and many patients. But it leaves many questions unanswered.
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HSJ Local
Company 'disappointed' to give up patient transport contract after seven months
Coperforma, the company which is handing back its Sussex patient transport contract, has said it is “disappointed” but has not commented on a critical inspection report.
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HSJ Local
Updated: Patient transport firm to relinquish contract after CQC concerns
An independent patient transport provider is to hand back a £63m contract to the NHS, as it was revealed the Care Quality Commission has served six improvement notices on it.
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HSJ Local
Deficit forecast quadruples at financial special measures trust
A leading teaching hospital is forecasting a £60m deficit this financial year – nearly four times its control total.
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HSJ Local
CCG steps in to pay owed wages in patient transport debacle
CCG pays wages owed to former NHS patient transport service staff Commisioner says it intends to claw fees back from Coperforma, which disputes the issue Some improvement in performance in recent months A clinical commissioning group has paid the wages owed to the staff of a patient transport ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Memory test showed value of keeping it local
The results of a pilot memory assessment service showed the value of delivering dementia services within primary care
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HSJ Local
Trust to review patient homicides following manslaughter case
LEGAL: An independent review will examine the cases of patients at Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust who went on to kill after a patient was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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HSJ Local
CCGs order inquiry into disrupted switch to private transport firm
PERFORMANCE: Clinical commissioning groups in Sussex have ordered an independent inquiry into the troubled start of a new patient transport service.
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HSJ Local
Private firm may have been only bidder for £12m a year contract
COMMISSIONING: The company in charge of patient transport services in Sussex may have been the only bidder for the £12m a year contract, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
MP and union demand improvement from private transport service
Less than a week after new providers took over patient transport services in Sussex an MP is warning she will raise issues with ministers if they are not resolved quickly, while union members have also been balloted over strike action.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex maternity services switch to Kent trust
RECONFIGURATION: Maternity services in part of east Sussex are to transfer to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust in Kent.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex maternity unit to switch to Kent trust’s control
Concerns over low birth rate and diverts at the Crowborough Birthing Centre No date agreed for when Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells will take over the service STRUCTURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust will take over a maternity unit previously run by East Sussex Healthcare Trust.
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HSJ Local
CCG names preferred bidder for Sussex community services contract
COMMERCIAL: Sussex Community Trust has been named as the preferred bidder for a community services contract in East Sussex.
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HSJ Local
Councillors have 'no confidence' in East Sussex leadership
PERFORMANCE: Councillors in East Sussex have taken a unanimous vote of ‘no confidence’ in the leadership of East Sussex Healthcare Trust and have called on the chief executive to resign.
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