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Trust introduces new Mental Health Response Vehicles

By Lee Peart 24 January 2025

Two new Mental Health Response Vehicles have been introduced by East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) NHS Foundation Trust.

CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE HEALTH AND HOUSING PARTNERSHIP

Health and housing partnership launches in Cheshire and Merseyside

By Liz Wells 24 January 2025

Health and housing leaders across Cheshire and Merseyside are working together to improve health and wellbeing through better housing.

REGULATION

Trust apologises over failures at kidney dialysis unit

By Lee Peart 24 January 2025

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has apologised over failures at a kidney dialysis unit.

NATIONAL CARE SERVICE

Scotland scraps core element of National Care Service

By Lee Peart 24 January 2025

The Scottish Government has scrapped plans to deliver structural social care reform through a National Care Service.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Great Western Hospital set for strikes as Serco bosses 'refuse to honour' pay deal

By Liz Wells 24 January 2025

Hundreds of the lowest paid workers at Great Western Hospital in Swindon are set to take strike action next week in a long-running dispute with Serco over pay.

NHP

Trusts suspend public engagement on new hospitals

By Lee Peart 24 January 2025

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust have suspended public engagement on two hospitals following a delay in their constr...

NHS SOUTH YORKSHIRE ICB

NHS South Yorkshire's education programme backed by national body

By Liz Wells 23 January 2025

NHS South Yorkshire's Jobs for Everyone Primary Schools programme has been endorsed by the National Careers and Enterprise Company, the national body for careers education in England.

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST

Campaign tackles abuse towards staff in Leicester's hospitals

By Liz Wells 23 January 2025

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has launched a campaign to tackle physical and verbal abuse towards staff working on its premises.

ESTATES

Trusts press ahead with RAAC hospital plans

By Lee Peart 23 January 2025

NHS trusts are pressing ahead with plans to replace RAAC (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete) hospitals following the Government’s update on the New Hospital Programme (NHP) this week.

LEGAL

Trust undertakes internal review over malpractice allegations

By Lee Peart 23 January 2025

An internal review is being undertaken by University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust over malpractice allegations against former consultant Professor Ian Brown.