Live A141 traffic updates as vehicle overturns near Huntingdon cambridge-news.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cambridge-news.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Four months after its permanent chief executive, Dorothy Hosein, resigned, troubled East of England Ambulance Services Trust has a new boss. Tom Abell is taking over the top job on a permanent basis, having moved over from a deputy chief executive role at Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust, itself a trust that is struggling with concerns over quality and governance.
However, if the MSE role was a challenge, Mr Abell is sure to find EEAST an even bigger one. In September 2020 a Care Quality Commission inspection found a “combative leadership” culture. It also referred the trust to the Equality and Human Rights Commission over concerns the trust had breached the Equality Act 2010.
FIREFIGHTERS spent hours rescuing a woman trapped inside her car after it crashed into a brick garage on a residential road. Two fire crews from Colchester and an urban search and rescue team were called to Mountbatten Drive, in Colchester, at about 4.20pm on Monday. On arrival firefighters reported a silver car had collided with a garage and a woman was trapped inside her vehicle. Essex Fire and Rescue Service’s urban search and rescue team was then called to help make the structure of the garage safe so firefighters could rescue the woman. A witness, who asked not to be named, said the driver was trapped inside the car for about two hours waiting for the fire crews to secure the garage from falling on top of the car.
Clinical commissioning groups demonstrate the highs and the lows of the staff survey. The high was South Tyneside CCG, where 19 out of 20 staff would recommend it as a place to work – the highest level of any NHS organisation in the 2020 staff survey and a remarkable achievement by any measure.
The low was undoubtedly Kent and Medway CCG, where only 42.9 per cent would give the same recommendation. It was beaten to bottom place by East of England Ambulance Services Trust on 40.4 per cent.
Not all CCGs take part in the staff survey – less than half did this year – and some of those that did have been through the turmoil of reorganisation in the last 18 months. That can make comparisons with previous years more difficult and lessons harder to draw.