Virtual workers predicted to save FT £2.1m in first year
Intelligent automation has saved a foundation trust 27,000 hours of staff time since it was launched in July last year. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 3, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
FT’s staff survey raised major concerns ahead of chief quitting
Staff at a foundation trust raised concerns in a survey about discrimination and safety reporting, shortly before its chief executive quit blaming the “financial and regulatory environment”. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - November 26, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust: Patients ‘at risk’ as ICS delays new IT system
A foundation trust is warning of “significant risk” to patients because its plan for a £35m IT overhaul has not been approved by its system or regulator. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - November 22, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
One NHS patient DIED and another became seriously ill after receiving infected organs
A doctor at Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust accidentally cut the donor's stomach during the original procedure. However, the surgeon did not record the incident. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Public don ’t want NHS staff outsourced to private companies
The majority of the public (54%) think transferring NHS staff to private companies is unacceptable, according to a UNISON/ComRes poll published today (Monday).
The findings also highlight how half (50%) of those polled fear the efficiency of the NHS could be undermined as a direct result of non-medical health employee – including cleaners, porters and catering workers – being outsourced.
There has been an increasing trend to transfer staff over to firms outside the NHS, which means they have separate managers as well as different ways of working to those directly employed by the health service.
The findings come amid...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - November 18, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: News Press release dave prentis health NHS privatisation Source Type: news
Frimley strike postponed as trust agrees not to continue with privatisation plans, says UNISON
Strike action due to take place tomorrow (Monday) involving porters, security guards, cleaners and catering staff employed at Frimley Health Foundation Trust has been postponed following last-minute talks today (Sunday) between their employer and union UNISON.
The UNISON members had planned to walk out for 48 hours this week – starting tomorrow morning – over plans to transfer their jobs to a wholly owned subsidiary company.
UNISON South East regional secretary Steve Torrance said: “Following productive discussions with the Trust, UNISON has agreed to postpone the industrial action due to take plac...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - November 17, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release NHS staff NHS subcos wholly owned subsidiaries Source Type: news
Trust rated ‘good’ two years after merger
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust has achieved a “good” rating overall following its first Care Quality Commission inspection as a single organisation - down from the “outstanding” held by one of its predecessor trusts. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - November 14, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
FT considered selling on bad debt from private patients
Directors at a foundation trust considered selling on its bad debts from private and overseas patients for collection, board papers reveal. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - November 12, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Heart patients can now be treated at home with intravenous-style drips
Medics at the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust have found a way to treat patients at home using a device that delivers a drug through a tiny tube into the body 24 hours a day. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
My Medical Record: How Do We Spread #HealthTechToShoutAbout?
At its most recent meeting, Highland Marketing's advisory board heard from Kevin Hamer, My Medical Record programme manager at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, about its ground-breaking personal health record.
The board, which gave MyMR the #HealthTechToShoutAbout award at the Health Tech Awards 2019, was impressed by its technical architecture and its achievements; and keen to debate how the NHS could be encouraged to take up its approach. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - November 7, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Industry Business and Industry Source Type: news
Trust faces 48-hour strike over subsidiary company plans
Several hundred support staff at Frimley Health Foundation Trust are expected to strike for 48 hours this month, as controversy continues over its proposed subsidiary company. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - November 5, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHS workers to strike at three hospitals over privatisation plans
Facilities staff at Wexham Park and Heatherwood hospitals in Berkshire, and at Frimley Park in Surrey have announced dates for strike action, in an escalation of their campaign to stay in the NHS.
Their employer Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) plans to privatise up to 1,000 NHS cleaners, caterers, porters, security and estates staff to a new wholly-owned subsidiary company early next year.
The trust has so far refused to change its plans, so staff feel industrial action is their only option, says UNISON.
UNISON has been campaigning against the creation of subsidiaries UK-wide, believing them to be back-door priv...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 4, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: News Press release Christina McAnea NHS privatisation Source Type: news
Leading trust CEO will switch to running ICS
The chief executive of a foundation trust has stepped down to take an expanded role with the North Cumbria Integrated Care System. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - November 4, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Grow your own' a proactive approach to retaining nursing staff
This case study shows how Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust developed an approach to ' grow its own ' nursing workforce, rather than rely exclusively on recruitment of existing nurses. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - October 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Providers Deliver Better care for patients and service users
This report is part of a new programme of work from NHS Providers- Providers Deliver - to celebrate and promote the work of NHS trusts and foundation trusts in improving care. Using 11 case studies it considers the leadership approaches and frontline initiatives that underpin improvements in quality. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - October 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
