Trust ‘could force us out of business’, claims PFI firm
A private finance initiative company has warned it may go bust if a trust imposes any more fines after “severe” fire safety defects were found at its community hospital run by the firm.
Revealed: The trusts struggling most with delayed discharge ‘interface’ problems
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.
Former NHSE director to chair cash-strapped ICB
A former NHS England director who has also led adult social care for a council has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.
London Eye: Who gets what
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Fire concerns at PFI hospital sees key services move
A hospital built under the private finance initiative has been forced to move key services due to “severe” fire safety defects found by investigators.
London Eye: The NHS in the election campaign
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
‘Decomposing bodies’ discovered at multiple hospitals
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.
PFI firm agrees to pay for hospital’s safety improvements
A private equity-owned private finance initiative company is paying to make a hospital it built fire-safe, HSJ has learned.
London Eye: Who gets what care
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: Takeover
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Collapsed PFI firm sues fire safety advisers
Administrators acting for a collapsed hospital PFI firm have started legal action against the fire safety testers it employed.
HSJ Podcast: The £4bn hole in the NHS’s building plans
In the wake of HSJ’s disclosure this week that the cost of building “40 new hospitals” in the NHS has increased by £4bn, our episode digs into what’s driving this and asks if it will get past the Treasury.
London Eye: Marsden meets its Waterloo
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Trusts’ performance on key recovery target revealed
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.
Equipment supplier blamed for trust’s serious incident
Two NHS organisations on opposite sides of a region have blamed a new equipment supplier for recent problems with hospital discharges and pressure ulcers, the latter of which prompted a serious incident.
Embattled trust seeks merger
A high-profile mental health trust is looking to merge with another organisation amid questions over its long-term viability.
ICB maternity plan risks increasing deaths, senior medics claim
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.
£100m pathology contract outsourced by London acute
A north London acute is outsourcing its pathology services to a public-private partnership in a deal worth £105m.
Trusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.
London Eye: Patient harm? ‘Definitely’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.