HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Vacant posts, crucial upgrades and lost chances
Your essential update on health for the week. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 1, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust director resigns over ‘dishonesty’
The strategy director of an acute trust has resigned after being suspended by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for dishonesty over a “repeated period of time”. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 1, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
More trusts discover their buildings have faulty concrete
Thirteen more NHS hospitals have identified a potentially unsafe form of concrete in their buildings, causing closures and disruption to wards. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 29, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trusts that declared ‘no RAAC concrete’ now admit they have it
Thirteen more NHS hospitals have identified a potentially unsafe form of concrete in their buildings, causing closures and disruption to wards. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 29, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Chair leaves trust after a year in post
An ambulance trust chair has announced his departure, little more than a year after he took up the post. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 29, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust rejects NHSE’s claim it has lost 17% productivity
A large hospital trust has rejected NHS England analysis suggesting its productivity has fallen by nearly a fifth post-pandemic. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 29, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Lack of collaboration a factor in failed bids for new hospital, says CEO
The lack of collaboration with a neighbour was a factor in a trust being overlooked for capital investment to rebuild an acute hospital, its chief executive has suggested. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 29, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Government ‘taskforce’ to plan ‘future of general practice’
Government will launch a “taskforce” this year to consider the “future of general practice”, it has announced, while describing this year’s GP contract as a “stepping stone” towards “more fundamental reform”. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 28, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
New ‘taskforce’ to consider ‘future of GP’
Government will launch a “taskforce” this year to consider the “future of general practice”, it has announced, while describing this year’s GP contract as a “stepping stone” towards “more fundamental reform”. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 28, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
New director ‘competency’ requirements unveiled by NHSE
NHS board members must speak up against discrimination, challenge others constructively and help foster a safe culture, under a new NHS England assessment framework. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 28, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Recovery Watch: The trusts going Further, Faster
Recovering services from the covid crisis is a big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by bureau chief James Illman. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 28, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Strikes spread to more trusts over backpay dispute
Strike action by healthcare assistants looks set to spread to more trusts, having so far been confined to the North West region. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 28, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Staffing agency sues trust in framework row
A staffing agency is suing the NHS after it was denied a place on a major procurement framework. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 28, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHS backlogs drive £20m boost for private cancer firm
A private cancer provider has grown its turnover by £20m – more than 20 per cent – in the past year on the back of the NHS cancer backlog, it reports. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 28, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
