All London articles – Page 7
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Embattled trust seeks merger
A high-profile mental health trust is looking to merge with another organisation amid questions over its long-term viability.
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Revealed: The worst hospital food in England
New data has revealed the latest trusts with the best and worst scores for food and cleanliness, according to assessments by staff and patients.
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Revealed: Trusts most reliant on oil for their energy
Oil consumption across the NHS estate has seen its largest annual increase in a decade, as trusts turn to the fuel for emergencies and surges in demand.
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Trust rejects NHSE’s claim it has lost 17% productivity
A large hospital trust has rejected NHS England analysis suggesting its productivity has fallen by nearly a fifth post-pandemic.
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Staffing agency sues trust in framework row
A staffing agency is suing the NHS after it was denied a place on a major procurement framework.
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Thirty trusts report more 12-hour waits, despite national improvement
Long A&E waits have got worse at more than one in five acute trusts, despite an improving trend nationally.
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Revealed: The ICBs most reliant on private hospitals
Up to 20 per cent of NHS elective patients are now being treated by private hospitals in some areas, analysis by HSJ suggests.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Fait accompli
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Trust names ‘inspiration’ former receptionist as CEO
Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust has promoted Bas Sadiq, who joined the NHS as an outpatient receptionist 20 years ago, to chief executive.
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Bid to speed up selected ‘new hospitals’
Some of the schemes within the “40 new hospitals” programme could be allowed to abandon the requirement for standard design and centralised procurement, in a bid to speed the projects up.
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‘Untenable stalemate’ is halting GP practice upgrades, say ICBs
An “untenable stalemate” in funding has virtually halted GP practice building work, despite national commitments to expand primary care, multiple NHS organisations are warning.
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ICB whistleblowing process ‘not fit for purpose’
An integrated care board has found its handling of whistleblowing “not fit for purpose”, after a complaint about safety incidents not being properly investigated.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: 12-hour A&E waits rise again
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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Top trust warns GPs of 15-week wait for scans
England’s largest hospital trust has written to GPs warning their patients face 15-week waits for routine MRIs, ultrasound and CT scans.
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Revealed: Worst hospitals for food hygiene
More than 30 hospitals in England failed to receive the top ratings for food hygiene in their latest inspection.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: A troubling narrative
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Revealed: The ‘unacceptable’ hospital buildings with no investment
Estates chiefs at 19 acute hospitals have classed more than half of their occupied space as “not functionally suitable” and lacking any promise of major investment.
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Trusts set to merge despite ‘stability and accountability’ concern
An on-off merger between two hospital trusts is set to finally go ahead, board papers reveal.
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‘Inadequate’ action on cap-ex changes leading to ‘suboptimal’ decisions
Capital spending plans in some health systems are being adversely impacted by an accounting change that was not supposed to affect operational decisions.
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Revealed: 300,000 more NHS staff missing out on flu jab
Some 300,000 fewer frontline NHS staff had the winter flu vaccine last year than in 2019 and 2020, with huge variation in uptake among trusts, HSJ analysis shows.