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Hospital group takes over £450m trust after years of talks

2025-01-03T05:00:00+00:00

A hospital and community services trust has been taken over by its neighbour.

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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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Revealed: All but three ICSs fall behind financial plans

2024-12-20T13:20:00+00:00

A total of 39 of the 42 integrated care systems have fallen behind their financial plans, new figures 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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Council cancels contract with trust which ‘can’t make required efficiencies’

2024-11-22T12:00:00+00:00

A hospital trust’s sexual health service has been decommissioned by council commissioners who blame cuts and a failure to propose “robust models to achieve the required efficiencies”.

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HSJ Awards 2024: Clinical Leader of the Year

2024-11-22T00:01:00+00:00

WINNER

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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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Revealed: The trusts with the longest discharge delays

2024-07-11T11:00:00+01:00

Patients are waiting over two weeks in hospital after their “ready for discharge” date at some trusts – more than double the average delay, according to new NHS England data.

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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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Concerns over ‘essential’ newborn breathing equipment at one in five hospitals

2024-05-31T04:00:00+01:00

One in five recent inspections of maternity services have raised concerns over “essential” breathing equipment for newborn babies, HSJ has found.

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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.

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Following the Money: The trusts with the biggest drops in productivity

2024-05-21T13:47:00+01:00

HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.

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‘Decomposing bodies’ discovered at multiple hospitals

2024-05-16T04:26:00+01:00

Bodies are being left to deteriorate and in some cases decompose in hospital mortuaries, often because of a lack of freezer space, HSJ  has found.

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PFI firm agrees to pay for hospital’s safety improvements

2024-05-08T11:43:00+01:00

A private equity-owned private finance initiative company is paying to make a hospital it built fire-safe, HSJ has learned.

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.