All REGIONS articles – Page 6
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NewsEx-trust chief to lead ICS on interim basis
A retired trust boss has been announced as interim chief executive for Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board.
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News‘No alternative’ to paying more to struggling provider, ICB admits
An integrated care board has no ‘viable alternative’ to persisting with a contract for several struggling urgent treatment centres, and paying more for them to try to hire more staff, it has decided.
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NewsManagers wrongly dismissed doctor with PTSD, tribunal rules
A trust breached its own internal illness policy when managers sacked a doctor who had PTSD and had been drunk at work, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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NewsStop discrimination at ‘first hurdle’, race case victim tells trust leaders
A trust has been told to not ‘shut down’ staff who raise concerns by a former employee whom a tribunal found was racially discriminated against.
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NewsMedic who stood to be MP appointed hospital CEO
A trust has appointed a new hospital site ‘chief executive’, whose predecessor stood down after less than two years.
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News‘We do not run our front door’, says CEO of ‘inadequate’ A&E
A trust whose A&E has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission has highlighted problems caused by an independent-sector run urgent treatment centre based at its emergency department.
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NewsTrust appoints influential policy figure as chair
A large mental health and community trust has appointed one of the left’s most well known policy thinkers as its new chair.
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NewsICS cancels four urgent treatment centre contracts after performance concerns
An integrated care system has terminated a private provider’s contract to run four urgent treatment centres following performance concerns, HSJ has been told.
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NewsBuilding firm to pay £5m over ‘defects’ at major cancer centre
A construction firm has been ordered to pay £5m after fire and electrical safety defects were found at one of the NHS’s largest cancer centres.
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NewsFour urgent care centres in one ICS placed in special measures
The Care Quality Commission has placed the four urgent treatment centres run by a private provider in a single system into special measures.
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NewsAmbulance trust asks ICSs for 300 staff to step in on strike day
More than 300 clinicians are being sought from primary care to help London Ambulance Service during next week’s strike, according to a letter seen by HSJ, amid fears it will have a greater impact than last month’s industrial action.
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NewsUrgent call for help as ambulance trust faces relying on ‘first aiders’ during strikes
Medics and nurses have been urgently called upon to support London Ambulance Service during next week’s strike action, as it will otherwise have to rely on staff only able to provide ‘first aid’.
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NewsTrust boss urges Sunak to avert strike action
A trust leader has written an open letter to prime minister Rishi Sunak asking him to urgently avert strike action planned by the Royal College of Nursing.
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NewsMinisters approved two ICS salaries over £240,000
Ministers approved two integrated care systems’ requests to pay their chief executives more than £240,000, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE’s ‘institutionalised’ firing of CEOs contributed to ‘major service failure’
An “institutionalised” and “counterproductive” system of hiring and firing trust leaders was a contributory factor to care failings which caused the death of at least 45 babies, an inquiry has concluded.
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NewsLeading teaching trust cut from national research programme
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has said it is ‘extremely disappointing’ it will lose a flagship research centre worth tens of millions of pounds, after failing an application process.
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NewsNew CEO for trust beset by national controversy
One of the country’s most high-profile mental health trusts has appointed its new chief executive, four months after its existing CEO announced he was retiring.
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NewsServing NHSE director joins trust board
A senior NHS England figure has been appointed as a non-executive director at a struggling acute trust.
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NewsTrust aims to move on from governance failures and ‘massive societal tension’
Leaders of a mental health trust say they are making progress to address multiple concerns over corporate governance, and moving on from the ‘massive societal tension’ around one of their key services.
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NewsTop medical director criticised by tribunal after attempted ‘humiliation’ of sacked doctor
One of the top medical directors in the North West has been heavily criticised by an employment tribunal, after a doctor who was unfairly sacked was then offered her job back on lower pay.