Bexley news

• Surgeon harm review delayed to 2027

  27-10-2026 11:20 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A trust has apologised for a further delay to an independent review into potential harm to hundreds of patients, many of them children, treated by one of its surgeons.
  
  Read more

• Hospital rebuilds face further delay

  03-11-2026 11:01 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  Two new hospitals are likely to be further delayed and cost an additional £200m if plans for major service reconfiguration are pursued, trust bosses have warned.
  
  Read more

• New trust probes staff accessing Southport victims’ records

  29-10-2026 11:34 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A second hospital in Liverpool is investigating whether staff viewed medical records of attack victims without legitimate reason.
  
  Read more

• Recruitment equality plummets despite pioneering model

  28-10-2026 06:08 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  The first trust to establish a diverse “shadow board” to tackle poor ethnic diversity among directors has reported recruitment equality has worsened since its launch.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Revealed: Trust probed over 10 child deaths amid prosecution

  21-10-2026 11:03 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  An independent review into 10 child fatalities has identified fundamental governance and sepsis care failings at an embattled trust, HSJ has discovered.
  
  Read more

• Revealed: 10 child deaths investigated at trust facing prosecution

  21-10-2026 11:03 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  An independent review into 10 child fatalities has identified fundamental governance and sepsis care failings at an embattled trust, HSJ has discovered.
  
  Read more

• Virtual ward patient died due to failure to transfer him to hospital

  19-10-2026 10:22 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  The death of a man being cared for on a virtual ward was the result of a “catalogue of failings” by two trusts, a coroner has ruled.
  
  Read more

• Former regional director made chair of struggling hospital group

  16-10-2026 06:36 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A former NHS England regional director has been announced as interim chair of a hospital group facing significant financial challenges and leadership instability.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Regional director made chair of struggling hospital group

  16-10-2026 05:03 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A NHS England regional director has been announced as interim chair of a hospital group facing significant financial challenges and leadership instability.
  
  Read more

• ‘My mind is blown’: MP reacts to CEO’s admission

  15-10-2026 07:20 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  The new leadership of a troubled NHS trust has been accused of losing focus and “struggling” to improve the provider’s performance by one of its local MPs.
  
  Read more

• Trust under manslaughter investigation over four deaths

  09-10-2026 17:10 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  An ongoing potential corporate manslaughter investigation is looking into the deaths of four patients on a stroke ward, a court has heard.
  
  Read more

• Trust facing corporate manslaughter charges over four deaths

  09-10-2026 17:10 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  An ongoing potential corporate manslaughter investigation is looking into the deaths of four patients on a stroke ward, a court has heard.
  
  Read more

• Nursing regulator makes U-turn over snooping cases

  09-10-2026 13:53 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  Nurses are now facing regulatory action for improperly viewing Southport attack victim files after a U-turn by their regulator – which was made only after the breaches became public, HSJ can reveal.
  
  Read more

• ‘Organisational shame’ driving defensive behaviour at inquiry trust

  06-10-2026 05:23 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  Staff at a trust subject to a statutory inquiry are paralysed by fear, a review has discovered.
  
  Read more

• Urgent warning issued over cardiac death risk

  28-09-2026 13:59 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A coroner has issued an urgent warning that the failure to implement an emergency cardiac pathway could result in more deaths
  
  Read more

• We’re providing ‘pretty awful’ care, says CEO

  21-09-2026 13:41 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A hospital trust is providing a “pretty awful” standard of care, its interim chief executive has declared.
  
  Read more

• Board shake-up at ailing hospital group

  18-09-2026 05:10 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  The chair of a large hospital group has announced he will be stepping down after three years, amid a major board shake-up.
  
  Read more

• Managers ‘should not feel affronted’ by Letby inquiry, says CEO

  16-09-2026 15:30 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  No NHS leader “should feel affronted” at being reminded of basic duties towards patients by the Letby inquiry, the chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust has said.
  
  Read more

• EPR launch delayed by eight months

  15-09-2026 08:25 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  An acute trust has delayed the full go-live of a new electronic patient record by eight months after a data problem, and to avoid launching in winter.
  
  Read more

• Controversial hospital group to be dissolved

  10-09-2026 16:37 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A troubled group board has voted to dissolve a controversial partnership between two trusts following recommendations by an external review.
  
  Read more

• Second trust’s delay telling Southport victims of data breaches was ‘appalling’

  02-09-2026 07:48 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  An ambulance trust waited nearly two months before informing victims of the 2024 Southport attack that their patient records may have been accessed inappropriately by staff, HSJ  has discovered.
  
  Read more

• Strikes at two hospitals extended

  10-08-2026 05:41 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A fresh round of strikes set to last 20 days has been announced at hospitals in Lancashire in a row over holiday pay.
  
  Read more

• Exclusive: Blindsided NHSE bosses to launch snooping probe

  04-08-2026 05:46 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  Blindsided NHS England bosses have ordered a “thorough investigation” into the trust at the centre of a scandal involving staff inappropriately accessing patients’ records, HSJ   can reveal.
  
  Read more

• Exclusive: ‘Divisive and toxic’ culture found at trust

  27-07-2026 06:04 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A damning review of a trust’s senior leadership found “adversarial and mistrustful” relationships had fostered “a divisive and toxic culture”, and staff felt “fearful, anxious and unable to speak openly”, HSJ can reveal.
  
  Read more

• Exclusive: ‘Divisive and toxic’ culture found at trust

  27-07-2026 06:04 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A damning review of a trust’s senior leadership found “adversarial and mistrustful” relationships had fostered “a divisive and toxic culture”, and staff felt “fearful, anxious and unable to speak openly”, HSJ can reveal.
  
  Read more

• Army medics could support ‘unsafe’ service

  21-07-2026 16:19 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  Army medics could be brought into a service currently deemed “unsafe”, according to a struggling trust.
  
  Read more

• Army medics could support ‘unsafe’ service

  21-07-2026 16:19 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  Army medics could be brought into a service currently deemed “unsafe”, according to a struggling trust.
  
  Read more

• Army medics could plug gaps in ‘unsafe’ service

  21-07-2026 16:19 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  Army medics could be used to prop up a service at risk of closure, a struggling trust has declared.
  
  Read more

• I was told to close down 4,000 safety reports, claims manager

  20-07-2026 05:57 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A senior NHS manager told an inquiry into more than 2,000 deaths he was asked to remove thousands of outstanding safety incident reports while his trust was in the middle of the probe.
  
  Read more

• I was told to close down 4,000 safety reports, claims manager

  20-07-2026 05:57 via Health Service Journal - What's new in HSJ Local
  
  A senior NHS manager told an inquiry into more than 2,000 deaths he was asked to remove thousands of outstanding safety incident reports while his trust was in the middle of the probe.
  
  Read more

Follow @Bexley_UK_News on Twitter!