All articles by Ben Clover – Page 6
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ICS gets new boss after eight-month wait
A new chair has been announced for South West London Integrated Care Board, eight months after his predecessor quit following a row over a ‘toxic’ working environment.
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Sloman and Ferris to leave NHS England
Two top-level NHS England directors have announced they are leaving the organisation after about two years in their current posts.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: The Lloyds Bank £56m
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Suing trust for £56m is ‘last resort’, says Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it supports a PFI firm taking legal action to claim £56m from an NHS hospital trust, including tens of millions said to be owed to the bank, HSJ has learned.
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London Eye: Blanket cancellations and holding out against the rate card
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Hospital ‘left in unsafe condition’ by private contractor
A PFI contractor left a hospital ‘in an unsafe condition’ for nine months after a fire which required patients to be evacuated, a trust has claimed in legal papers.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Definitely not about money – the Gordon mystery
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NHSE admits elective impact as trust chiefs warn of dangers of doctors’ strike
Ministers and NHS England have not sufficiently warned the public of the risk to patient harm posed by next week’s junior doctors strike, some of the NHS’s most senior trust chief executives have warned.
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Trust spent £680k in failed attempt to fight whistleblower
A trust spent £460,000 on legal fees trying to fight a patient safety whistleblowing case that it lost, it can be revealed.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Tooting or Waterloo?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Battle for cancer centre turns in favour of challenger
A controversial transfer of children’s cancer services has moved a step closer after an NHS England assessment process supported the move.
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‘Local management’ harder in ‘enormous’ trusts, says new NHS Providers chief
The new chief executive of NHS Providers has told HSJ he will champion the development of provider collaboratives in the role, and stressed there is no ‘schism’ between them and integrated care systems.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Where’s the harm?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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London Eye: Catastrophic failure, but not the trust you’d expect
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NHS set to miss cancer backlog target three years running, NHSE plans reveal
NHS England has effectively admitted the backlog of cancer long-waiters will still be higher in March 2024 than before covid hit, in a document seen by HSJ.
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Record waits for endoscopy as referrals soar
The waiting list for endoscopies has broken the record set during the height of the covid pandemic, as referrals for suspected colorectal cancer surged, HSJ analysis shows.
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Trust spends £3m on B&B rooms for patients stuck in hospital
A mental health trust has spent millions this year on places in ‘bed and breakfast’ accommodation in order to discharge inpatients, HSJ has learned.
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Trust must pay £200k to whistleblower it subjected to ‘campaign of harassment’
A trust that sacked a whistleblower who had warned them about potential patient harm from a new procedure has been told to pay her more than £200,000.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Priced out of the market
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Long cancer waits hit record high, despite drop in backlog
The number of people waiting for cancer diagnosis and treatment for more than three months has passed 12,000 for the first time.