All West Midlands articles – Page 12
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HSJ LocalTrust chief: Manager ‘bootcamps’ helped eliminate two-year waiters
The chief executive of one of the first teaching trusts in the country to have eliminated two-year waiters for elective care has said there is ‘no magic to it’ and it can be replicated elsewhere.
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NewsMajor trust records fifth never event at troubled department
A fifth patient has been given the wrong blood at a major teaching hospital’s haematology department where patient safety concerns were raised by clinicians last year.
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NewsExclusive: Ambulance service will collapse by August, predicts its nursing director
A struggling ambulance trust could face a ‘Titanic moment’ and collapse entirely this summer if the region’s worsening problems with hospital handover delays are not taken more seriously, its nursing director has told HSJ.
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NewsTrusts block pensions deal for senior medics, claiming it is ‘unfair’ on other staff
Ten of the most pressured NHS trusts have refused to offer ‘pension recycling’ to help senior doctors avoid higher pension taxes, with sources saying this would be ‘totally unfair’ on lower paid staff.
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HSJ LocalA&E overhaul ‘biggest solution’ to system’s ambulance delays
Shaking up accident and emergency services across a split-site hospital trust will be a ‘fundamental’ technical solution to ambulance delays in a troubled system, its leaders have told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: Patient waited 24 hours in ambulance for A&E
Nearly 600 patients waited 10 hours or more in the back of an ambulance to be transferred into emergency departments last month – with one taking 24 hours, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local‘Staff holidays’ delay death review by up to nine months
A coroner has expressed ‘serious concern’ after a trust-wide safety review – prompted by the death of a young mother – was delayed by up to nine months due to ‘staff holidays’.
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NewsRevealed: The areas with the strongest and weakest primary care
Official workforce statistics reveal huge variation in primary care staffing across different health systems – with London and the South East appearing to be particularly underserved and the South West relatively well resourced.
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NewsRevealed: Surge in serious incidents caused by ambulance delays
Ambulance trusts are seeing rising numbers of serious incidents resulting from delays in reaching patients, research by HSJ has uncovered.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance chief calls out acute trust over ‘lack of action’ on handover delays
An ambulance service has raised concerns over the record number of ‘hours lost’ to handover delays at an acute hospital on its patch, which it says is happening despite the number of arrivals being at its lowest level in seven years.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief appointed permanent ‘group CEO’ despite ‘poor behaviour’ finding
A trust chief executive who behaved “poorly and inappropriately” in his role as interim CEO of another acute provider has been appointed permanent boss of both organisations.
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HSJ Local‘Big personalities’ accused of bullying thought to be ‘bullet proof’, finds review
Doctors at an acute trust believe their clinical leaders have failed to tackle the ‘big personalities’ accused of being aggressive bullies, a review has found.
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News'Inadequate' private hospital ‘not suited to modern psychiatric care’
An independent hospital for people with complex learning disabilities or autism is facing fresh criticism from health inspectors just months after it was first placed in special measures.
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NewsAmbulance waits hit two hours for heart attacks and strokes
Average waits for an ambulance for stroke and heart attack patients have reached as long as two hours in one region, after a further fall in performance in recent weeks, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsScandal inquiry issues 15 actions for trusts nationally
Repeated care and governance failures were routinely ignored by a hospital trust where poor maternity care resulted in almost 300 avoidable baby deaths or brain damage cases, the most damning review of maternity services in the NHS’s history finds today.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Are 50,000 more nurses enough in a post-pandemic world?
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsJavid ‘unconcerned’ as covid admissions rise 46 pc in a fortnight
Admissions of covid positive patients to English hospitals are once again rising steadily across England.
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HSJ LocalKeeping electives on same site as A&E is ‘optimal’, says CEO
The chief executive of three NHS trusts says ringfencing elective care within a ‘hot’ acute hospital site is potentially more ‘productive’ than sending it to a separate ‘cold’ site.
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HSJ LocalHealth secretary warned of funding ‘challenge’ to A&E overhaul
The health secretary has been told that a long-delayed A&E revamp at the NHS’ only inadequate-rated trust remains ‘challenging’, with the need to meet a wide range of requirements proving ‘difficult to resolve’.
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NewsCovid hospital admissions start to rise again
The number of covid positive patients admitted to English hospitals has started to rise again after falling for nearly two months.