All North West articles – Page 4
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NewsWhistleblowing nurse no longer trusts the NHS
A trust must pay a whistleblowing nurse £14,000 in damages and lost earnings, a judge has ordered.
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HSJ LocalProminent trust chief leaves for overseas role
One of the UK’s most prominent ambulance leaders is leaving his role for a job abroad.
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NewsRevealed: Three-fold variation in emergency response time by ICS
A threefold variation in ambulance response for serious, urgent conditions has been revealed in new figures.
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NewsRevealed: ICSs planning the largest deficits
The integrated care systems facing the biggest planned deficits in the year ahead are today revealed by HSJ research.
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NewsCity’s trusts agree to joint committee after ICB intervention
Five trusts in the city with the most separate NHS providers have agreed to form a joint committee at the request of the region’s integrated care board.
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HSJ LocalICB reprimanded for not ‘holding FTs to account’
One of the largest integrated care systems has been accused of a “failure” of financial management, as NHS England issued a formal notice requiring urgent improvements across leadership, performance and care quality.
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NewsThreefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed
Patients trying to reach their GP are almost three times as likely to fail to get through in the worst-performing integrated care systems than the best, according to analysis of new annual figures.
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NewsInterim regional directors named by NHSE
NHS England has named interim regional directors for the North West, and North East and Yorkshire, after the incumbent’s retirement.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Whittling down the provider numbers
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NewsTrust in legal dispute over multimillion pound procurement deal
An arrangement between a children’s hospital and a procurement service provider has been challenged in the High Court by a rival provider which claims the trust broke regulations when entering the deal.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief executive moves to ICB
A community trust chief executive is stepping down ahead of the expected introduction of shared leadership with an acute provider, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: Government has failed to ‘level up’ innovation funding
The share of government-controlled health research funding going to the north of England has been static over the last decade, with London and the South East maintaining its dominant position.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Taking A&E back to the 90s
As the election campaign moves into its final weeks, the shadow health secretary has confirmed a huge policy commitment that wasn’t in the manifesto.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Board nods through key decision with misleading data
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NewsICB plans to ‘decommission outpatient clinics’
An integrated care board is planning to decommission secondary care outpatient clinics and replace them with primary and community care services.
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HSJ LocalNHSE chief appointed to trust CEO job
An NHS England finance boss has been appointed chief executive of an acute trust in the North West.
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NewsTrusts struggling to recruit directors due to ‘workload and pressure’, says outgoing CEO
Trusts are getting fewer applications for CEO and director roles due to “pressures” including a lack of resources, poor “work life balance”, and central scrunity, an outgoing acute chief has said.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: ICB small print reveals raft of new treatment restrictions
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HSJ LocalHewitt’s ICS using health inequality cash to ‘offset deficit’
An integrated care system whose chair said addressing health inequalities must be prioritised has admitted using dedicated funds to offset its financial deficit.
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HSJ LocalTrust holds CEO post to consider ‘integration’ with neighbour
A trust has decided not to advertise its vacant chief executive post after system leaders commissioned a review into “integration opportunities” with a neighbouring provider.