A privately run child and adolescent mental health unit has been closed permanently, with its residents moved elsewhere, after concerns were raised about their safety.
A fourth suspected suicide has occurred at a mental health trust which was recently warned by the Care Quality Commission after three other similar inpatient deaths in quick succession, HSJ can reveal.
Ambulance bosses say patients are being put in 'dangerous' situations, as tighter infection control measures and busy emergency departments have left them waiting up to three-and-a-half hours to be transferred.
A new site chief for King's College Hospital left the organisation shortly after joining, amid significant turnover in the foundation trust's executive leadership team, HSJ has learned.
The consultancy McKinsey was hired to work on a significant NHS technology review and paid nearly £600,000 for the work, newly released documents show.
One of the biggest hospital trusts in England will imminently cancel some elective operations, as covid-19 admissions rise steeply in Yorkshire, HSJ understands.
A fourth suspected suicide has occurred at a mental health trust which was recently warned by the Care Quality Commission after three other similar inpatient deaths in quick succession, HSJ can reveal.
The consultancy McKinsey was hired to work on a significant NHS technology review and paid nearly £600,000 for the work, newly released documents show.
As the news over covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths inevitably ramps up during the coming months, the fear factor will drive the blame game to ever less adequate and rational behaviour, writes Andy Cowper.