All NHS Improvement articles – Page 103
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HSJ Local
Long underperforming trust exits special measures
A trust dogged by performance and financial problems for more than a decade has moved out of special measures.
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News
NHS Improvement director to step down
National patient safety director Mike Durkin is to resign from his role at NHS Improvement after almost five years.
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HSJ Local
Hospital trust removed from quality special measures
East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust is to exit special measures for quality, NHS Improvement announced today.
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News
NHS Improvement starts search for new chief executive and chair
NHS Improvement confirmed this afternoon that its chief executive Jim Mackey will stand down from his role this autumn as originally planned, with preparations underway to begin the search for his successor.
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News
Exclusive: Trusts get £187m incentive payments despite plans slipping
Analysis shows 40 providers now forecast to breach their deficit target after receiving nearly £200m of incentive payments Sustainability and transformation fund was introduced to reward trusts that agree and meet their financial targets Some trusts have received more than two-thirds of their STF allocation, yet are forecast to ...
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News
System leaders set out new A&E 'minimum requirements'
New standards issued on how to divert minor injuries away from A&E to co-located services NHS England requirements must be met either by Easter or September Measures are intended to alleviate A&E pressure NHS organisations have been given months to meet new “minimum requirements” for diverting accident and ...
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News
Analysis: The trusts posing the biggest risk to NHS's financial plan
HSJ analysis shows which providers must deliver the biggest improvement in the final three months of 2016-17 If the average performance in the first nine months is projected across the whole year, the sector would report a deficit of £1.14bn, against the £580m control total Hospital trusts with ...
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: How not to transform the NHS
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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News
£190k salaries for leading trust operating officers and finance directors
70 percent salary discrepancy expected between the chief operating officers of the largest and smallest acute trusts Of all acute trust leadership roles, COOs are expected to see the biggest pay differentials between different sized acute providers Finance directors also expected to see a 25 per cent salary difference ...
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News
Top trust chief executives could command a £126k salary premium
NHS Improvement says salary ranges are indicative and still under discussion Numbers reveal a 34 per cent difference in pay between small and very large acute trusts Health secretary launched a crackdown on senior pay in 2015 The best chief executives at the largest NHS acute trusts could ...
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News
Exclusive: STPs asked for 'credible implementation plan'
Sustainability and transformation plan areas are being asked for a “credible implementation plan” to turn proposals into action and reconcile them with contracts and financial targets.
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Comment
Only the Budget can prevent an impossible task
The latest figures on NHS providers’ deficit are not surprising but they are very worrying – Anita Charlesworth analyses why
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News
Exclusive: 100 NHS locums earning £20m
Trusts will no longer be allowed to employ other trusts’ medics as locums through an agency, and register on the trust’s staff bank instead More than 100 locums earn more than £200k a year, Jim Mackey letter reveals £300m spent on locums above the cap set last year. Significant ...
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HSJ Local
Community service transfer may be scrapped
NHS Improvement has said it could terminate the planned takeover of Liverpool’s community services by Bridgewater Community Healthcare Foundation Trust, and will consider if “a more beneficial transaction” could happen.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Another fight in north east London
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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News
Exclusive: Trusts given stricter instructions on reviewing patient deaths
Joint letter to trusts sets outs major reforms in how trusts review deaths All deaths where concerns are raised by family or staff must be reviewed Changes follow the CQC’s review of investigation of deaths in 2016 Every NHS trust will be required to review all patient deaths ...
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: £800m is the magic number
HSJ’s email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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Comment
Analysis: Emergency care reforms delayed pending answers on social care
Details of an overhaul of emergency care targets have been delayed, as senior figures in the health and care system await a potential government intervention to support social care services, HSJ understands.
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News
Trusts taken out of financial special measures
Two acute trusts have been lifted out of financial special measures, as NHS Improvement considers whether to put another 12 organisations in the regime.
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News
Turnaround consultants heading to more struggling trusts
Management consultants will be sent to another group of NHS trusts as part of a national turnaround programme.