All articles by Ben Clover – Page 29
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HSJ Local
Shelford Group trust will run deficit for 'at least three more years'
A Shelford Group teaching hospital trust will run an underlying deficit until at least 2021-22, it predicts.
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HSJ Local
CCG free to cut IVF funding after panel decision
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel will not carry out a full review of a clinical commissioning group’s decision to cut funding for IVF services.
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Former trust chief ordered to repay £11,000 after conviction
A former hospital chief executive has been ordered to repay around £11,000 to the NHS or go to prison.
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Hospital chain trust expects nearly £100m deficit
The founder trust of a hospital group has declared its “underlying deficit” is likely to be more than £95m this financial year.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: How to solve a King's sized problem
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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HSJ Local
Major trust predicts £210m private income in two years
A hospital trust in London is predicting a private income of more than £100m in 2018-19.
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In depth: Trusts respond to vascular GIRFT review
HSJ approached all the trusts that were at or beneath the threshold for one or more of the GIRFT vascular activity measures. Many gave candid descriptions of their issues and what they planned to do, or had done, about them.
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Trusts reveal plans to centralise services after GIRFT review
Trusts have begun taking steps to centralise vascular surgery following an NHS Improvement clinical review, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Teaching trust's deficit to top £100m this year
A London teaching hospital trust will end the 2017-18 financial year with a deficit of around £120m, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Local
Teaching trust and CCGs in formal arbitration
A teaching hospital and its local commissioners are in formal arbitration as the end of the financial year approaches.
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HSJ Local
Private provider and NHS trust end cancer partnership
A private hospital group and an NHS trust have ended their partnership running a cancer unit.
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News
Trust declares highest A&E alert level for three days in a row
A district general hospital is under “extreme pressure” in accident and emergency and has declared the highest level of alert for three days, HSJ can reveal.
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Effectiveness of NHS Improvement sustainable solutions team reviewed
NHS Improvement commissioned a review of part of its regulation directorate, including “personal profiling” of individual directors, amid concerns the team is not working effectively enough.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Shelford Group trust chief executive resigns
The chief executive of a Shelford Group hospital trust has resigned, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Decision time for property disposals
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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News
Updated: CCG pulls out of whole-county commissioner plan
Thanet and South Kent Coast CCGs have not joined county-wide commissioning arrangement Accountable officer Hazel Smith had been due to be the county-wide commissioner’s “head of partnerships” Move thought to be linked to forthcoming service consultation A clinical commissioning group has opted out of a regional strategic commissioning ...
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NHS revenues fall at private hospital firms
NHS revenues have fallen year-on-year at two large private providers, according to financial results released this week.
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Vascular surgery must be centralised, government report says
Getting It Right First Time report says vascular surgery services need to be centralised Large variation in access to stroke-preventing surgery Sets minimum staff and procedure numbers for surgery hubs England’s vascular surgery services are “not configured to meet clinical need” and are resulting in unnecessarily long waits ...
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NHS accused of inflating bank rates under pressure from regulator
Agencies accuse trusts of upping rates paid to bank workers to reduce agency spend Recruitment and Employment Confederation says move may be “anticompetitive” News comes as NHS Improvement data shows £400m year on year bank spend increase, and predicts £843m overspend in 2017-18 Agencies supplying temporary staff to ...
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NHS Improvement seeks Treasury cash for wave of trust takeovers
NHS Improvement and the Treasury have discussed proposals for “transaction funding” to support a new wave of takeovers of underperforming trusts by other organisations, HSJ can reveal.