Revealed: the trusts furthest behind on efficiency plans
A total of 20 trusts had achieved only 30 per cent or less of their 2024-25 planned efficiency programmes by the end of October, with four delivering below 20 per cent, research by HSJ has revealed.
Streeting backs ‘compelling’ cancer restructure
Wes Streeting has backed a contested move by NHS England to restructure children’s cancer services that fall short of quality standards, despite local objections.
Top trusts failed mortuary security checks
Some of England’s most prestigious trusts have been caught with inadequate security for their mortuaries – despite recent high-profile breaches, HSJ can reveal.
London Eye: The (surprising) names linked to England’s top hospital job
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Exclusive: Cyber security funding goes missing as attacks increase
Integrated care boards have not received any revenue funding from the national cyber security programme this year, despite a steady increase in online attacks, HSJ can reveal.
London Eye: Capital in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: New year, new questions
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
£33m cost of cyber attack revealed
A cyber attack on a pathology firm part-owned by the NHS — which left hospital systems crippled for months — cost the provider £32.7m, accounts reveal.
CEO of NHS’s largest trust to stand down
The NHS trust with the largest annual income has started an “international” search for a new chief executive.
‘Targeted cyber security issue’ to disrupt hospital for a week
Disruption caused by a “targeted cyber security issue” on a district general hospital is likely to go on for at least a week, it has said.
London Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Worst trusts on A&E experience revealed by CQC
A Care Quality Commission survey has identified the trusts where the most patients report a bad experience in A&E.
Departing CEO given £120,000 back pay
A trust chief executive was given £120,000 in back pay and a total £380,000 in salary payments shortly before leaving the role, it has emerged.
Trust proposes to cut its estates team by half
A prestigious teaching hospital is consulting on plans to cut its number of estates and maintenance staff by more than half.
Seven-hospital ‘group’ to split in two
Two large hospital trusts are scrapping their joint chair and CEO arrangement, HSJ can reveal.
Huge cyber attack caused minimal patient harm, ICB claims
A cyber attack which crippled a region’s pathology system for three months caused only five cases of “moderate” harm and no significant harm, the NHS has claimed.
NHS estates backlog rises 20% to record high
The cost of eradicating the estates maintenance backlog for NHS trusts rose around 20 per cent to a new record high of nearly £14bn year on year, according to new provisional data.
£10m supplier ‘cancelled NHS contracts with six hours’ notice’
A patient transport firm serving two major teaching hospital groups gave its customers just six hours’ notice it was stopping services, the trusts said.
MD representing £18bn turnover teaching trusts steps down
The managing director of the Shelford Group, representing 10 of England’s biggest trusts – with a combined £18bn turnover – is to step down after three years in the role.
Basic security measure would have prevented disastrous cyber attack
A major cyber attack which caused months of disruption across NHS services in south London would have been thwarted if the affected system had been protected by a basic IT security process, HSJ has learned.