AliJaneMoore
@alijanemoore.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering the health service - southeast, patient safety & ambulance for HSJ. Not fond of authority whoever's in power. DMs open Alison.Moore@hsj.co.uk Also trustee, Cyclox, so may tweet about Oxford and cycling.
I asked an ICB which had refused to release info under the FoI but did not appear to have applied the public interest test for evidence of when this test was applied. This is what they said. There is, basically, no evidence. @mrosenbaum.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I asked an ICB which had refused to release info under the FoI but did not appear to have applied the public interest test for evidence of when this test was applied. This is what they said. There is, basically, no evidence. @mrosenbaum.bsky.social
Can't vouch for the veracity of this (as was second hand from facebook) but worth thinking about what the march in London 10 days ago must have felt like for NHS staff.
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Can't vouch for the veracity of this (as was second hand from facebook) but worth thinking about what the march in London 10 days ago must have felt like for NHS staff.
Ahead of the announcements about which trusts will be in the Amos maternity review, I wonder how many of these will feature? All had higher than expected neonatal deaths/stillbirths over the last few years (details from MBRRACE)
September 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Ahead of the announcements about which trusts will be in the Amos maternity review, I wonder how many of these will feature? All had higher than expected neonatal deaths/stillbirths over the last few years (details from MBRRACE)
Can introducing 45m max handover times work? This - from AACE - seens to suggest they can. LAS introduced them gradually and through working with hospitals to get crews back on the road to reach the next patient. .
May 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Can introducing 45m max handover times work? This - from AACE - seens to suggest they can. LAS introduced them gradually and through working with hospitals to get crews back on the road to reach the next patient. .
How come smoothing out my fuel bills seems to involve me lending @octopus.energy several hundred pounds without interest for most of the year?
May 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How come smoothing out my fuel bills seems to involve me lending @octopus.energy several hundred pounds without interest for most of the year?
Just looked up the departmental boad for DHSC. 100% white and 70% men.
May 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just looked up the departmental boad for DHSC. 100% white and 70% men.
This weekend I've been involved in a small-scale badger TB vaccination programme, organised by Oxfordshire Badger Group. 4.10 alarm on Saturday but worth it for moments like this. #vaccinatedon'tcull
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This weekend I've been involved in a small-scale badger TB vaccination programme, organised by Oxfordshire Badger Group. 4.10 alarm on Saturday but worth it for moments like this. #vaccinatedon'tcull
Not a great end of year performance for University Hospitals Sussex. Unfortunately some of the areas where it "overspent" will be just as important going forward.
May 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Not a great end of year performance for University Hospitals Sussex. Unfortunately some of the areas where it "overspent" will be just as important going forward.
From the chair of Kent and Medway ICB on planned NHS changes.
May 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
From the chair of Kent and Medway ICB on planned NHS changes.
Oxford weirdness at 6am
May 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Oxford weirdness at 6am
NHSE puts out "good news" stories while South Yorkshire ICB refuses to respond to a query about local services because one of its places has local elections.
April 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
NHSE puts out "good news" stories while South Yorkshire ICB refuses to respond to a query about local services because one of its places has local elections.
Big ambitions from SECAmb for this financial year - improvement on cat 2 response times and breakeven.
April 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Big ambitions from SECAmb for this financial year - improvement on cat 2 response times and breakeven.
20% price cut klaxon - this was £15m. A bargain for anyone with £12m to spend.
April 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
20% price cut klaxon - this was £15m. A bargain for anyone with £12m to spend.
Hats off to the Oxford Clarion which has done a sterling job in looking at county council candidates and their backgrounds. Increasingly seeing this type of journalism done by independnet media rather than BBC or local papers. Here's a taste.
April 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Hats off to the Oxford Clarion which has done a sterling job in looking at county council candidates and their backgrounds. Increasingly seeing this type of journalism done by independnet media rather than BBC or local papers. Here's a taste.
There is obviously an issue with bank workers in ambulance trusts with so few saying they are good places to work. Anyone know what is wrong? .
April 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
There is obviously an issue with bank workers in ambulance trusts with so few saying they are good places to work. Anyone know what is wrong? .
Mean handover times for mabulances arriving at A&E in the right column - the problems are really concentrated in the South West and West Midlands,
April 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Mean handover times for mabulances arriving at A&E in the right column - the problems are really concentrated in the South West and West Midlands,
And good news on category 1 - the most time-dependent - as well.
April 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
And good news on category 1 - the most time-dependent - as well.
There will be many points of conflict as the NHS changes but I wonder whether this one will be prominent? Wholly owned subsidiaries typically employ some of the poorest paid staff in the NHS and often offer new starters even lower pay and pensions.
April 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
There will be many points of conflict as the NHS changes but I wonder whether this one will be prominent? Wholly owned subsidiaries typically employ some of the poorest paid staff in the NHS and often offer new starters even lower pay and pensions.
Whoever wins the gigantic Kent and Medway community services tenfer, there will be some changes - East Kent Hospitals have not bid and currently provide some services.
April 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Whoever wins the gigantic Kent and Medway community services tenfer, there will be some changes - East Kent Hospitals have not bid and currently provide some services.
An indication of the level of savings trusts will be asked to make this financial year - this from Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
April 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
An indication of the level of savings trusts will be asked to make this financial year - this from Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
Crumbs. That is a lot of beds for any hospital to have out of action.
April 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Crumbs. That is a lot of beds for any hospital to have out of action.
I won't embarrass the trust by naming them but this the mix up of depravation/deprivation always makes me smile - particularly in a report about maternity!
April 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I won't embarrass the trust by naming them but this the mix up of depravation/deprivation always makes me smile - particularly in a report about maternity!