The new NHS Intensive Recovery programme has identified trusts at the bottom of the NHS league tables where patients face the longest waits, there is high leadership “churn” and there are persistent financial problems.<\/p>\n
Beginning in April, these trusts will kick off the programme:<\/p>\n
\u2022 North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust<\/p>\n
\u2022 Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust<\/p>\n
\u2022 Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust<\/p>\n
\u2022 East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.<\/p>\n
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\n Health Secretary Wes Streeting will launch the new programme on Wednesday. Pic: PA<\/p>\n
‘The worst services in the country’<\/strong><\/p>\n The Department of Health and Social Care said the trusts are not failing through lack of effort but face “deep-rooted challenges”, including “structural constraints and financial imbalance”.<\/p>\n Each trust will receive tailored help, including a change of leadership where necessary, with NHS “veterans” with a history of success brought into underperforming areas, the merging or separating of trusts and funding for crumbling estates.<\/p>\n Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Streeting will say: “Right now, a cluster of high-performing trusts are masking some chronic under-performance in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n “Failure has been tolerated for too long. Staff know it. Patients feel it. And I won’t stand for it.<\/p>\n “We won’t have succeeded in changing the NHS until we change it for the patients who are suffering the worst services in the country.”<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong>
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