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NHS 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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Trust chair to retire after 40 years as NHS leader
The chair of a trust with significant financial challenges has announced his intention to retire, after around 40 years in senior healthcare leadership positions.
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Ex-management consultant to chair ICB
An integrated care board has appointed a former management consultant as its new chair.
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Cyber attack firm chosen for £900m pathology deal
The company hit by a high-profile cyber attack debilitating London pathology services has won a major contract in the East of England.
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Expert Briefing
Carbon Copy: Why electrifying ambulances means less can go wrong
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
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Unused space costs NHS £90m a year, new figures reveal
NHS organisations spent nearly £90m on empty space in buildings leased from two national property companies last year, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Capping acute funding uplifts for the wider good
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning
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ICB pauses referrals to service as expansion is ‘unaffordable’
A mental health trust has stopped accepting ADHD referrals for many adults, after integrated care board chiefs warned it was “unaffordable” to expand the service due to financial pressures, HSJ understands.
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National design for ‘new hospitals’ being downsized
The national design for “new hospitals” will be reduced in size, HSJ understands, amid concerns over “unnecessary” space and cost.
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Revealed: 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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City’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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Legionella fear shuts ward and costs trust ‘at least’ £1m
A trust has been forced to shut a ward for months due to legionella risks – which has caused “significant pressure” and cost at least £1m so far.
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CFO departed trust after senior staff and ICB ‘lost confidence’
A trust’s chief financial officer left the role shortly after senior staff told the chief executive they had “lost confidence” in the CFO, in an apparent row over planned cuts to clinical staff, HSJ can reveal.
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ICB admits defeat on key September target
An East of England integrated care board expects to miss both the main national elective recovery target of eliminating 65-week breaches by September and a top diagnostic target, according to board papers.
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Capital budgets cut at trusts with largest repair backlogs
Hospitals with some of the biggest maintenance backlogs have had their budgets for repairs slashed as a result of new NHS finance rules, HSJ can reveal.
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CEO of deaths inquiry trust says ‘too much secrecy’ in past
The CEO of a trust subject to an inquiry into mental health deaths has claimed the organisation has “moved forward” from a defensive and secretive culture to being more open with patients and their families.
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New chief for trust seeking hospital rebuild
A new chief executive has been announced for a trust with major plans to rebuild a hospital in the East of England.
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‘Likely’ supplier for ‘first of its kind’ EPR revealed
An integrated care board has named Oracle Health as the “likely” supplier of an electronic patient record that will be the first to be used across acute, mental and health services.
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Longest-serving acute trust CEO steps down
The NHS’s longest-serving general acute trust chief executive has announced she is stepping down after more than 20 years.
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HSJ Local
Nurses to strike over 9pm finish time
Theatre nurses who are Unite members at a major teaching trust are set to go on strike over the extension of their shift times, the trade union has announced.