All articles by Ben Clover – Page 52
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HSJ Local
St George's given foundation trust status
St George’s Healthcare Trust today becomes St George’s University Hospitals Foundation Trust, after being granted foundation trust status by Monitor.
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Teaching hospital finance director leaves
FINANCE: The finance director of one of England’s largest hospital trusts is leaving, HSJ has learned.
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Labour reveals 10 year plan for health and social care
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has confirmed he wants health and wellbeing boards to be accountable for new ‘year of care budgets’ which would cover the ‘health and social care needs’ of those ‘at the greatest risk of hospitalisation’, but added that the funds would ‘be paid to an NHS ...
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Exclusive: Shelford Group medical directors rail at tariff plans
Medical directors from England’s 10 biggest teaching hospitals have written to their counterparts at NHS England and Monitor to warn that controversial new tariff plans will damage patient care and lengthen waiting times.
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Royal rumble escalates as London trust applies to redevelop neighbour’s hospital wing
A cancer hospital has submitted a planning application for the redevelopment of land owned by a neighbouring trust as part of an ongoing real estate dispute worth millions of pounds.
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Monitor delays controversial tariff decision
Providers will have to wait to see if controversial tariff plans for 2015-16 will be enforced as Monitor wades through hundreds of responses to establish if it received enough formal objections to trigger a new consultation.
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HSJ Local
Peterborough and Stamford franchise decision delayed
STRUCTURE: A hospital chief executive has confirmed that the decision to have his trust taken over by a Hinchingbrooke style private management franchise will be deferred until after the general election.
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London North West Healthcare Trust appoints new chief executive
WORKFORCE: London North West Healthcare Trust has appointed Dame Jacqueline Docherty as its new chief executive.
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HSJ100 analysis – providers: Trusts will weather a time of faltering and flux
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-PROVIDERSHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-PROVIDERS The provider sector is facing significant upheaval in 2015 - even before you take into account the finance and performance problems trusts will undoubtedly face.Simon Stevens’ “horses for courses” approach to pushing new organisational forms for NHS providers might sit awkwardly ...
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Mental health trust chair steps down
The chair of West London Mental Health Trust has announced he is stepping down, midway through his second term.
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Trusts’ spending on private healthcare providers rockets by 25pc
Foundation trusts increased the sums they spent buying healthcare from non-NHS bodies by almost 25 per cent last year
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Revealed: FTs' £92m spend on exit packages
Almost one tenth of foundation trusts’ entire £92.4m spend on severance packages last year was paid by a single provider, HSJ analysis reveals
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Some trusts will not become FTs until 2018, says Flory
The chief executive of the NHS Trust Development Authority has said some trusts will not be authorised for at least another four years.
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Stevens predicts 'incredibly tough' year for NHS
The chief executive of NHS England has warned that next year will be “incredibly tough” for the NHS, leaving areas which already have “deep problems” with little chance of recovering.
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FTs will resist forced expenditure on primary care
Foundations trusts will ‘furiously resist’ any attempt to push them into ploughing their accumulated surpluses into primary care as envisaged by the NHS Five Year Forward View
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Hospital chief executive steps down after regulatory action
The chief executive of a large Midlands hospital trust has announced he is stepping down
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Small hospitals could be paid more under forward view plans
Smaller hospitals could be paid more for the work they do in a bid to ensure they remain viable, under plans set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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DH sets new bailout conditions for foundation trusts
Foundation trusts could be ordered to sell surplus land or reduce the pay of senior managers as a condition of securing additional funding from the Department of Health
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Trust bosses apologise for personal comments in ‘whistleblower’ meeting
The chief executive and HR director of a mental health trust have apologised for making unguarded personal comments about a senior manager and her union representative
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Barts pays management consultant £1m in 10 months
Barts Health Trust has spent almost £1m on a “turnaround” consultant in just 10 months, its financial data reveals.