All South Central articles – Page 4
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NewsThird board executive leaves major teaching trust in three months
The chief executive of Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust has written to staff to say its chief information and digital officer has left the trust.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Shelford trust risks 'damaging relations' by slowing down invoice payments
A Shelford Group provider has risked damaging relationships with external suppliers by slowing down its invoice payments to support its cash balance.
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HSJ LocalAcute reconfiguration to go ahead after CCG wins judicial review
Plans to reconfigure acute services and merge two NHS trusts have been boosted after a judicial review was dismissed by a High Court judge.
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HSJ Local'Inadequate' trust teams up with neighbour
An “inadequate” trust has announced plans to collaborate with its neighbour over emergency care and transport services in a bid to improve quality.
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HSJ LocalGovernance review at troubled trust as consultants warn of 'lack of expertise'
A troubled integrated trust has opened a financial governance review after consultants highlighted an underlying deficit worth more than 15 per cent of the organisation’s income.
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HSJ LocalCEO 'disappointed' after staff told to be more caring
A chief executive says he is “disappointed” with his trust being rated among the worst in England for staff being “caring” towards patients, but believes improvements to “long standing challenges” are being made overall.
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HSJ LocalTrust agrees to move 'unsustainable' service to neighbour after three year saga
“Unsustainable” spinal services are set to be transferred from a cash strapped acute provider to its tertiary neighbour after three years of uncertainty.
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NewsTwo acute trusts defy NHSI pathology plans
Two acute trusts are yet to agree to join pathology networks proposed 10 months ago by NHS Improvement under plans to save £200m by 2021.
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HSJ Local
Regulators refuse to relax scandal trust's control total
NHS Improvement has refused to relax a trust’s financial “control total” despite the local finance director arguing that “mistakes of the past” had resulted in the target being missed.
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NewsTwo more digital 'exemplars' to get £7.5m
NHS England has picked two more regions to receive up to £7.5m to create detail health and care patient records.
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NewsNHS 111 procurement halted at the last minute
Two procurements for NHS 111 in the south east have been halted – in one case, just weeks before a new operator was expected to be announced.
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NewsHunt: Gosport will prompt 'searching questions' for government
Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt has told MPs the government will “ask searching questions” over whether safety and regulatory processes are right following the Gosport Memorial Hospital Inquiry.
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NewsCommissioners look again at trust's 'fragile' services
NHS England and local commissioners want to look again at “fragile” clinical services run by Bedford Hospital Trust – less than a year after the provider committed to retaining its emergency and obstetrics departments.
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NewsExclusive: Councils threaten to quit leading STP
Local authorities from a leading health economy have threatened to quit working with its STP as they say it “cannot legitimately claim to be working towards an integrated system.”
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News'Disregard for human life' - 450 patients killed by painkillers at hospital, report says
More than 450 patients died from prescriptions made “without medical justification” at a hospital where the use of opioids resulted in an “institutionalised practice of shortening patients’ lives”, an investigation has found.
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NewsDevastating fire prompts checks on 3,500 NHS buildings
NHS Property Services is to carry out a review of all the clinical buildings it owns after a report into a devastating fire which destroyed a community hospital.
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HSJ LocalRegulator lifts undertakings at Southern Health after 'encouraging progress'
NHS Improvement has lifted several “regulatory undertakings” at one of England’s largest community and mental health trusts.
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NewsSafety and bullying concerns persist at 'inadequate' trust
Serious shortfalls in governance “at all levels” and a “long-established bullying culture” continue to cause concern at a trust in special measures, a new report reveals.
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NewsTrust out of special measures but faces NHSI pressure on finance
A hospital trust has been lifted out of quality special measures after a Care Quality Commission inspection saw it come close to a “good” rating.
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health to keep services after divestment plan reversed
Community services will remain at Southern Health Foundation Trust after the new leadership team opted against a proposed divestment.