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Lee Peart

Lee Peart

Editor of Healthcare Management

Articles by Lee Peart

REGULATION

CQC downgrades leadership at community healthcare services provider

By Lee Peart 17 November 2025

Leadership at community healthcare services provider Sirona care & health has been downgraded from good to requires improvement following an inspection by the CQC.

REGULATION

Mental health trust fined over £500k over patient death

By Lee Peart 17 November 2025

North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) has been fined more than £500,000 following the death of 22-year-old Alice Figueiredo at Goodmayes Hospital on 7 July 2015.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Community diagnostic centre to help cut hospital waiting times

By Lee Peart 17 November 2025

Council leaders have visited a new health centre that is designed cut hospital waiting times and get local people the tests they need sooner in Southend.

ESTATES

Yeovil Hospital opens urgent treatment centre

By Lee Peart 14 November 2025

Yeovil Hospital has opened an urgent treatment centre (UTC) in order to better meet demand and reduce waiting times.

WORKFORCE

Former NHS trust executive jailed for 28 years for sexual offences

By Lee Peart 14 November 2025

A former NHS trust executive who groomed teenage girls on Snapchat has been jailed for 28 years.

MATERNITY

Committee 'deeply concerned' over delay to maternity investigation

By Lee Peart 14 November 2025

The Health Committee has expressed deep concerns over reports the independent maternity and neonatal investigation led by Baroness Amos will not publish interim findings this year as previously exp...

DIGITAL

Language translation solution contract launched for public services

By Lee Peart 13 November 2025

A language translation and interpretation solution contract has been launched for the public services.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Council invests £3.2m in hospital through developer levy

By Lee Peart 13 November 2025

Runnymede Borough Council is investing £3.2m in funding raised through a community infrastructure levy at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey.

PREVENTION

Fast-tracked drug to be offered to blood cancer patients

By Lee Peart 13 November 2025

A fast-tracked drug is being offer to patients whose blood cancer has returned or not responded after just one previous course of treatment.

DHSC

Waiting list drops for first time in four months

By Lee Peart 13 November 2025

The NHS waiting list fell in September after rising for the previous three months.

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