All North West articles – Page 3
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NewsRevealed: the trusts with the highest savings targets
At least three trusts have efficiency targets approaching 10 per cent of their budget this year, HSJ research has found.
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NewsRevealed: the ongoing impact of delays to ‘new hospital’ schemes
Infrastructure failings have led to over 1,000 operations being cancelled in the past two years at just 14 trusts, whose rebuilding plans have been placed under review by the new government, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCity’s five trusts to form £2bn ‘group’
A city’s five acute and specialist trusts have agreed to form a major £2bn hospital “group”.
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NewsICS told it’s ‘top down’ and ‘lacks effective leadership’
An under-pressure integrated care system has been told it lacks “effective leadership” and is “too centralised and top-down” in a survey of partner organisations.
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NewsFinance chief seconded from NHSE to lead two trusts
An NHS England finance director recently appointed chief executive of a North West acute trust will now also take over at a neighbouring community provider.
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NewsTrust chief and cancer leader retiring after 40 years
The chief executive of two specialist trusts has announced her retirement less than a year after taking up the second of the roles.
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NewsTrusts to form single £1.4bn ‘group’
Two trusts that share a chair and a chief executive have announced they will move to a single executive “group” model.
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NewsEmergency performance dips as winter nears
Ambulance response times rose dramatically last month with urgent care performance also worsening as winter appeared to strike early.
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NewsHospital’s ‘isolated’ maternity services under question
The future of services at an historical specialist hospital is under question, as part of plans set out at a tense board meeting today.
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NewsTrust sued over £65m EPR procurement
A trust has been taken to the High Court by a technology firm which claims it broke procurement law in how it evaluated competing bids for a £65m contract for an electronic patient record system.
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NewsTrusts to appoint joint CEO and chair in bid to stem delayed discharges
Two trusts have agreed to appoint a joint chair and chief executive after reviewing “collaboration and integration” across the patch.
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NewsICS jobs ‘devaluing public health’, say directors
Integrated care system population health lead roles are causing “inefficient working” and sometimes “poorer care and outcomes”, public health directors have claimed.
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NewsThree ICSs responsible for a quarter of very long diagnostic waits
Just three integrated care systems were responsible for nearly one in four 13-week waits for key diagnostic tests in recent months, HSJ analysis of official data has found.
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NewsTrust appoints successor to longest serving acute CEO
A trust has appointed a new chief executive to replace England’s longest serving acute CEO, who is retiring this year.
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NewsNHS directors brought out of retirement to help tackle financial crisis
Former trust and regional finance directors have been drafted in to support the most financially-challenged integrated care systems by NHS England.
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NewsLetby managers: We weren’t slow to act
Former senior managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital have told the public inquiry into murders of babies that “given the information with which we were provided, we acted appropriately at the time”.
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NewsRevealed: ICBs which cut staff by a fifth in 12 months
Several integrated care boards have cut their staffing by up to a fifth in a single year – after being asked to reduce management costs – but significant variation exists, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsNHS England names new regional director
NHS England has appointed a long-serving trust chief executive as its new regional director for the North West, it confirmed today.
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News‘Conflict of interest’ concerns over consultants hired to fix NHS finances
Concerns have been raised that consultants advising systems on savings plans could be “marking their own homework”, with many of the firms having already done similar exercises for the same organisations.
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NewsEx-management consultant to chair ICB
An integrated care board has appointed a former management consultant as its new chair.