All articles by Ben Clover – Page 38
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NHS staff survey: Best and worst performing trusts
The annual NHS survey has shown staff continue to believe the care their trusts provide is safe, with 69 per cent saying they would recommend care at their organisation to a friend or relative.
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HSJ Local
Long underperforming trust exits special measures
A trust dogged by performance and financial problems for more than a decade has moved out of special measures.
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NHS England chief reveals new restrictions on bed closures
Stevens sets out new rules on bed closures Bed reduction plans must show what is in place to replace them or demonstrate how current bedstock could be used more efficiently News comes as bed occupancy at record high and with overnight bed numbers having fallen since 2010 NHS ...
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Private hospital firm reports 13pc rise in NHS revenue
Spire reports jump in NHS work £293m in NHS funded revenue in 2016 is a significant year on year rise Company suggests NHS work will continue to increase Private hospital group Spire Healthcare saw the size of its NHS business grow from £262m in 2015 to £293m in ...
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Devo, patient harm and keeping hold of your property
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Private firms warn Stevens over end of purchaser-provider split
The head of the body representing private providers of NHS work has warned Simon Stevens that STPs must act within competition laws.
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Trade body for NHS suppliers to start publishing complaints data
The Association of British Healthcare Industries is to start publishing information on complaints made about its members, HSJ can reveal.
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Trusts and CCGs ordered to change logos by NHS England
Trust managers have condemned NHS England for ordering them to change their logos on signs and websites.
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NHS suppliers refute allegation of 'cosy cartel' on prices
Suppliers association refutes ex-minister’s “cosy cartel” allegations Dan Poulter said firms threatened to withdraw life sciences investment if price transparency was made mandatory “Big medical product companies made it clear they would fight us tooth and nail” and “lobbied at highest level”, Dr Poulter claimed The chief executive ...
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Exclusive: 100 NHS locums earning £20m
Trusts will no longer be allowed to employ other trusts’ medics as locums through an agency, and register on the trust’s staff bank instead More than 100 locums earn more than £200k a year, Jim Mackey letter reveals £300m spent on locums above the cap set last year. Significant ...
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Another fight in north east London
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Counter-fraud training department faces closure
A department set up to train local NHS counter-fraud teams could be closed, HSJ can reveal.
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Revealed: Significant variation in A&E cancer diagnoses across England
Cancer diagnosis in accident and emergency departments are three times more likely in some parts of England than others, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Avoidable stillbirth in maternity?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Analysis: NHS fraud prosecutions fall by three-quarters
The number of NHS fraud prosecutions has declined significantly over the past six years, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Analysis: A&E performance sinks to record low
Performance on main A&E measure lowest since targets introduced Fall in performance outstrips 3.7 per cent increase in admissions and attendances North west London and Cambridgeshire see worst performances and steepest declines Accident and emergency performance for December in England has sunk to its lowest level since the ...
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Teaching trusts placed on watchlist over bullying and leadership concerns
Two trusts under GMC “enhanced monitoring” over concerns from trainees about their paediatrics departments Lewisham and Greenwich Healthcare Trust and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust had serious concerns raised by trainees Two teaching hospital trusts have been placed on a General Medical Council watchlist after investigations ...
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: The Green Line Cancer Differential
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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HSJ Local
Controversial chief executive steps down from special measures trust
A controversial hospital chief executive has stepped down, four months after a damning rating from the Care Quality Commission.
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Analysis: 10 trusts responsible for quarter of 'winter pressures' alerts
Ten trusts responsible for a quarter of “winter pressures” alerts since start of December South of England is the worst hit region London reported only five out of 830 alerts Just 10 hospital trusts have been responsible for more than a quarter of the “winter pressures” alerts issued ...