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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021: Mental Health Initiative of the Year
WINNER Devon Partnership Trust and Royal Devon and Exeter FT: Connecting Physical and Mental Health Services in Gastroenterology
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2021: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative
WINNER: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT, The Royal Devon & Exeter Hospitals NHSFT and NHSE/I Specialised Commissioning Improving Value and South West region teams: Enhanced Supportive Care in Cancer: Embedding Service Redesign, Improving Experience, Making a Difference. Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and Royal Devon & Exeter NHSFT joined the NHSE/I Enhanced Supportive ...
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More than a dozen trust chairs receive two salaries as shared leadership spreads
Sixteen people are now chairing more than one NHS trust, but there is significant variation in how much they are paid for their extra roles, an HSJ analysis has found.
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HSJ LocalNeighbouring ICSs plan single hospital IT system
Five trusts across two integrated care systems are drawing up plans to roll out a single electronic patient record funded by the government’s flagship infrastructure project.
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HSJ LocalTrust buys Nightingale hospital to help tackle elective backlog
A hospital trust has bought the site of its local Nightingale Hospital, because it wants to continue using it to help tackle the elective backlog.
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HSJ Local‘40 new hospitals’ trust puts new IT system ahead of building
An acute and community trust, which has been allocated money as part of the “40 new hospitals” programme, is prioritising buying a new electronic patient record ahead of rebuilding its estate.
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News‘Secretive’ safety findings set to be revealed direct to CQC
The Care Quality Commission may in future be notified when ‘secretive’ external reviews have looked at patient safety issues within trusts.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: The NHS is failing to diagnose Devon’s autistic children
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsMerging trusts seek digital investment with ‘40 new hospitals’ funds
Two acute and community trusts are considering spending part of their government-funded estates cash on a major digital transformation project, amid plans to merge into one organisation.
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HSJ LocalTrust boss warns region faces ‘absolute crisis’ with trusts ‘hanging on by their fingernails’
Hospital chiefs in the South West have warned the region will not avoid the extreme pressures felt by other parts of the NHS, amid rapidly rising numbers of covid-19 inpatients.
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NewsHSJ’s most read technology stories of 2020
With 2020 down to its final days, it’s time to take a look back at HSJ’s most read technology stories of the year.
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News10 new hospital vaccine sites revealed
Ten more hospitals are to start giving the Pfizer covid vaccine, including two in coronavirus ‘hot spots’.
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NewsRevealed: £350m for first three months of Nightingale hospitals
Nearly £350m was earmarked by NHS England/Improvement for spending on England’s Nightingale hospitals, according to newly published contracts.
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HSJ LocalNeighbour trusts set to extend ‘closer working’ scheme indefinitely
Two hospital trusts are set to extend their shared leadership indefinitely amid the expiry of a two-year collaboration contract.
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HSJ LocalPatient deaths linked to long-standing failings at trust’s maternity unit
A previously unpublished report has laid bare multiple failings in a remote trust’s maternity department.
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NewsTrusts concerned over long waits for covid-19 test results
Several NHS trusts have waited up to a week to find out if their patients have covid-19 after experiencing delays at local laboratories, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalMerger an "option" as financially challenged trusts consider future
Two hospital trusts in a health economy with major financial problems are to explore joining together more formally.
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HSJ LocalSTP’s acute trusts split over major IT investment
Two of a sustainability and transformation partnership’s four acute trusts are yet to commit to rolling out a shared electronic record system, despite being asked to by NHS Improvement.
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HSJ LocalAcute trust admits £20m financial plan miss
An acute trust has increased its forecast deficit by around £20m, amid a worsening of its county’s overall finances.
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HSJ LocalFormer success regime CCG’s finances plummet
One of England’s largest clinical commissioning groups has increased its planned deficit by nearly £40m.