Author Profile

Lee Peart

Lee Peart

Editor of Healthcare Management

Articles by Lee Peart

BEST PRACTICE

Care Transfer Hub helps people return home from hospital

By Lee Peart 04 February 2025

A Care Transfer Hub is playing a vital role in getting people home from hospital as soon as they are medically ready.

ESTATES

Building work begins at hospital's £1.9m cancer support centre

By Lee Peart 04 February 2025

Building work has begun on a Macmillan Cancer Support Centre at Ashford Hospital in Surrey.

REGULATION

CQC finds deterioration in leadership at mental health trust

By Lee Peart 04 February 2025

A deterioration in leadership has been found following a CQC inspection of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

FINANCE

Trust writes off £750k in unrecoverable debt owed by failed coffee company

By Lee Peart 04 February 2025

Over £750,000 in unrecoverable debt has been written off by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust after a coffee company went into administration.

OCKENDEN MATERNITY REVIEW

Police launch investigation into deleted file in Ockenden review

By Lee Peart 04 February 2025

Nottinghamshire Police have launched an investigation into how a file was deleted during a review into maternity failings at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust.

CHILDREN'S SERVICE

Children's services need support to deal with increasing complexity

By Lee Peart 03 February 2025

The Government must introduce long-term funding mechanisms for children’s services to address increasing complexity and rising demand, a new report says.

WAITING TIMES

Flagship programme cuts diagnostic waiting times

By Lee Peart 03 February 2025

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s community diagnostic centre programme has delivered a 17.5% drop in waiting times.

CORRIDOR CARE

Half of public say corridor care crisis could be solved in a year

By Lee Peart 03 February 2025

Half the public think corridor care could be eradicated within a year if the Government took immediate action, a poll has found.

DONNA OCKENDEN

Nine-month delay to publication of Ockenden Maternity Review findings

By Lee Peart 03 February 2025

Publication of the findings of a review of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to be delayed by nine months after up to 300 more cases for investigation we...

ICB

Scrutiny committee 'disappointed' after DHSC snubs ICB intervention request

By Lee Peart 31 January 2025

Oxfordshire's Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (JHOSC) has said it is ‘disappointed’ at the DHSC’s decision not to intervene in the restructuring of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Ber...

Most Read News

View all News
  1. 'We'll put care on people's doorsteps,' PM promises
  2. 'Landmark moment' or 'castle built on sand?'
  3. BREAKING NEWS: CSUs and ICPs face axe in 10-Year Health Plan
  4. 10-Year Health Plan to prioritise UK doctors
  5. Innovator passports to fast-track technology in 10-Year Health Plan