Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Pathology

Trusts’ pathology venture pays £25m profit to Australian co-owner

2024-12-24T12:31:00+00:00

A public-private pathology partnership has paid £25m in profit to its majority share owner, and another £25m to two NHS trusts, accounts reveal.

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London Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital

2024-11-27T12:45:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Big teaching trusts put under extra NHSE ‘oversight’

2024-11-26T06:19:00+00:00

Four trusts – including three of England’s largest teaching hospital trusts – are now receiving extra “oversight” from NHS England, after being put into the lowest tier of providers for cancer and/or elective care performance.

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Revealed: The trusts struggling most with delayed discharge ‘interface’ problems

2024-10-02T05:00:00+01:00

The trusts struggling most on the number of delayed discharges caused by so-called “interface issues” between acute and other care services – mostly negotiations over care packages – are revealed by a new dataset.

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London Eye: Who gets what

2024-09-04T11:05:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Surgeon named CEO of high-profile hospital

2024-08-09T11:00:00+01:00

Site chief executives have been recruited for the Royal Free and Chase Farm hospitals, which are part of the Royal Free London Group.

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‘Deficient’ processes and ‘poor’ safety culture found in trust review

2024-06-24T02:17:00+01:00

A trust’s drugs control department was found to have a “significant under-appreciation of safety” and “a culture of unwillingness”, after it lost track of at least two bags of fentanyl.

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London Eye: The NHS in the election campaign

2024-05-29T10:00:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

Surgery

NHSE intervenes over ‘fear and bullying’ in surgery department

2024-04-18T04:00:00+01:00

Nearly a dozen junior doctors have been relocated from a London hospital’s general surgery department by NHS England, after concerns about a culture of fear, poor support, and reports of bullying.

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London Eye: Takeover

2024-04-03T12:59:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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London Eye: Marsden meets its Waterloo

2024-03-20T13:43:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

Outpatients

Trusts’ performance on key recovery target revealed

2024-03-20T12:54:00+00:00

Ten trusts have just 1 per cent or fewer of their outpatients on “patient initiated follow-up” pathways, against a target of 5 per cent, official data suggests.

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London Eye: Accountability

2024-03-06T10:24:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Trust rejects NHSE’s claim it has lost 17% productivity

2024-02-29T12:22:00+00:00

A large hospital trust has rejected NHS England analysis suggesting its productivity has fallen by nearly a fifth post-pandemic.

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London Eye: Fait accompli

2024-02-21T11:28:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Trusts set to merge despite ‘stability and accountability’ concern

2024-02-06T04:06:00+00:00

An on-off merger between two hospital trusts is set to finally go ahead, board papers reveal.

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

ICB maternity plan risks increasing deaths, senior medics claim

2024-01-24T10:30:00+00:00

The medical leaders of the maternity unit of a flagship hospital threatened with closure have written to their chief executive saying the downgrade would not be safe, HSJ has learned.

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

£100m pathology contract outsourced by London acute

2024-01-24T04:20:00+00:00

A north London acute is outsourcing its pathology services to a public-private partnership in a deal worth £105m.

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Trusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams

2024-01-22T12:58:00+00:00

Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.

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London Eye: Patient harm? ‘Definitely’

2024-01-10T12:33:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.