Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is no longer in special measures for financial reasons as a result of improvements in financial performance and management. The arrival of a new chair and chief executive over the past 18 months has provided the necessary board level stability, scrutiny and grip of the trust’s financial position. We […]

Our Chief Executive Ian Dalton’s address to senior leaders of NHS provider organisations at the NHS Providers annual conference on 10 October 2018. The future of the NHS has been a key theme of the conference – and rightly so. We marked the NHS’s 70th birthday in the summer, the Government has confirmed increased funding […]

NHS leaders have today shared a plan that highlights the areas the NHS should focus on to prepare for increased demand this coming winter. Today we have joined with other NHS leaders to write to system leaders to share measures our evidence shows the NHS should take to manage increased demand this winter period. The […]

The NHS could free up £480m to reinvest into NHS services and improve patient care if trusts filled temporary vacancies with workers from a ‘staff bank’ instead of using expensive staffing agencies. Temporary staff, such as doctors and nurses supplied by agencies, cost on average 20% more than those from the NHS’s own ‘staff banks’ […]

Today we have published an independent review we commissioned Deloitte to carry out of the effectiveness of board leadership and governance at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) in London. We placed the trust in special measures for finance in February 2018. Deloitte’s review has concluded that there were a number of […]

We have appointed six non-executive board members, which include the reappointments of current members, Lord Patrick Carter and Lord Ara Darzi, and the appointments of four new members. We are pleased to announce the following new members to join our board: Sir Andrew Morris – Lead for the Frimley Health & Care Integrated Care System […]

BSUH is no longer in special measures for financial reasons following improvements in financial performance and management at the trust. We worked to secure new management arrangements at the trust just over a year ago. The board and executive team of neighbouring Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust took on management responsibility for BSUH with an […]

We have implemented a cross organisational group, which is committed to make improvements and address issues around exception reporting practices and culture for junior doctors. Exception reporting is a contractual mechanism which doctors in training can use to report patient safety, rostering and training concerns. Trainees and trusts have encountered challenges following the introduction of […]

The NHS has announced plans to improve patient care by cutting long stays in hospitals. Speaking at the annual NHS Confederation conference at Manchester Central, NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens and our Chief Executive Ian Dalton will set out the plans which will also help to free up thousands of hospital beds and ease pressures […]

Today we’re lifting some of the regulatory undertakings placed on Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust over two years ago after an independent review highlighted progress in a number of areas. Following the independent Mazars report into a number of serious failings in the way the trust investigated the deaths of vulnerable patients, we took action […]