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NewsUpdated: CEO’s email ‘contributed to low morale’ at covid-hit A&E
Staff at a hard-pressed accident and emergency department were left feeling demoralised and unsupported by the actions of the senior leadership team, the Care Quality Commission has found.
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NewsEx-Confed chief to lead scandal-hit trust
The former chief executive of the NHS Confederation has been appointed chair of East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust.
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NewsTen ICUs where ‘super surge’ occupancy remains stubbornly high
Critical care occupancy remains stubbornly high at 10 trusts which still have around double the number of patients they had capacity for last winter, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHospital put into special measures after young patients appeared ‘over sedated’
An independent mental health hospital has been placed into special measures after young people ‘appeared to be over sedated’ during an inspection.
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HSJ LocalMore than 70 staff promoted as merging CCGs cut staff
More than 70 staff have been promoted to more senior roles as part of a merger between eight clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsThree acutes drop below 50pc performance on A&E target
Three acute trusts in London and the South East saw the performance against the main four-hour emergency target drop below 50 per cent in January, according to the latest data from NHS England.
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NewsHospital staff threatened with bailiff action over historic parking fines
A parking provider has been criticised for threatening hospital staff with bailiff action over historic unpaid parking fines, causing them ‘additional stress’.
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NewsThe 19 health systems with less than 5pc of beds available for non-covid patients
Nearly half of England’s health systems have scant space in general hospitals for non-covid patients as they juggle beds between covid and non-covid services while running at high occupancy rates, an HSJ analysis of NHS data shows.
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NewsLeading ICS’ governance seen as ‘repetitive, complex and burdensome’
A leading integrated care system’s governance was viewed as “repetitive, overly complex and burdensome,” an independent review has found.
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NewsRevealed: The 17 trusts still at 200pc or more of intensive care capacity
At least 17 hospital trusts still have at least twice the number of critical care patients than their total capacity last winter, with some falling very slowly, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCQC intervenes at trust hardest hit by covid
The Care Quality Commission has issued a warning notice over emergency care delays — particularly ambulance handovers — to one of the trusts hardest hit by coronavirus pressures in recent months.
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NewsLong-awaited A&E reconfiguration runs into covid troubles
A long-anticipated public consultation in the South East could be further delayed because of the covid pandemic.
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News31 Jan update: London and south east set to see low levels of covid hospital admissions by end of Feb
Admissions of covid positive patients in London and the south east are on course to fall to a managable level by the end of February.
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NewsRevealed: Large areas left with just a handful of hospital beds for non-covid patients
Several areas of England have been left with just a handful of general hospital beds available for non-covid patients in recent days, under the combined pressures of coronavirus and winter, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsHospital hosts others’ surgeons so cancer ops can go ahead
A specialist trust has freed up 29 theatre sessions a week so cancer surgery from nearby providers can continue during the covid pandemic.
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NewsPandemic’s role blamed for trust’s 1,955 mixed-sex ward breaches
East Kent University Hospitals Foundation Trust reported 1,955 mixed sex accommodation breaches in November, the month before the new variant of the virus caused a huge increase in covid admissions across the county.
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NewsRevealed: The systems struggling with discharges on top of covid pressures
More than a fifth of all general and acute beds in England are occupied by patients staying two weeks or more, rising to almost a third in some regions.
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NewsTrust which was receiving critical covid patients poised to start transfering them out
A hospital trust which recently accepted critical covid patients from neighbours may shortly have to send them elsewhere, its chief executive has said.
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NewsHospital warns it may become ‘impossible’ to stop patients catching covid
A trust has warned it may reach a ‘tipping point’ where it is ‘impossible’ to separate covid positive and negative patients.
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NewsSouth-East hospital trust records highest weekly covid death toll
A trust in the South East has recorded the second highest weekly total of covid deaths since the start of the pandemic’s third wave in early December.