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Trust ‘could force us out of business’, claims PFI firm

2024-10-09T11:25:00+01:00

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.

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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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Former NHSE director to chair cash-strapped ICB

2024-09-09T05:00:00+01:00

A former NHS England director who has also led adult social care for a council has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.

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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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Fire concerns at PFI hospital sees key services move

2024-07-31T11:00:00+01:00

A hospital built under the private finance initiative has been forced to move key services due to “severe” fire safety defects found by investigators.

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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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‘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.

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London Eye: Who gets what care

2024-04-17T12:20:00+01:00

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

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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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Collapsed PFI firm sues fire safety advisers

2024-03-22T06:33:00+00:00

Administrators acting for a collapsed hospital PFI firm have started legal action against the fire safety testers it employed.

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HSJ Podcast: The £4bn hole in the NHS’s building plans

2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00

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.

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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.

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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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Equipment supplier blamed for trust’s serious incident

2024-03-06T05:04:00+00:00

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.

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Embattled trust seeks merger

2024-03-05T12:59:00+00:00

A high-profile mental health trust is looking to merge with another organisation amid questions over its long-term viability.

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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.

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£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.