All News articles – Page 370
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NHS Improvement seeks Treasury cash for wave of trust takeovers
NHS Improvement and the Treasury have discussed proposals for “transaction funding” to support a new wave of takeovers of underperforming trusts by other organisations, HSJ can reveal.
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BME staff confidence benefits patient experience, officials told
Patients are more likely to have a good experience if a trust’s black and minority ethnic staff feel secure in raising concerns, according to the academic who led an NHS England study.
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Small hospital no longer ‘inadequate’
The Care Quality Commission has upgraded a troubled hospital trust’s inadequate rating, just 10 months after it was issued.
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Top trust receives 'mortifying' inadequate rating for new service
An outstanding-rated trust has been handed a “mortifying” inadequate rating for its children’s mental health services, which were redesigned two years ago via a controversial tendering exercise.
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Chief Executive Interview: Ros Tolcher, Harrogate and District FT
This is the second in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Membership subscribers. Each month in 2018 a member of the HSJ expert team will conduct a challenging, candid and in-depth interview with a provider trust boss to uncover their personal insights ...
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Top trust’s acquisition delayed over national funding
The acquisition of a hospital trust by its high performing neighbour has been delayed by ongoing discussions about its bid for national funding.
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Revealed: 'Zero day' stays driving emergency admission growth
Two thirds of the growth in emergency admissions in recent years has been for patients who are discharged without an overnight stay, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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Exclusive: Vanguards dent emergency admissions but not bed days
National new care model vanguard projects have not had a major impact on hospital bed days, official data obtained by HSJ suggests.
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Revealed: Best and worst performing vanguards
NHS England figures obtained by HSJ show how each national new care model vanguard has performed on the programme’s “efficiency” measures.
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Daily Insight: Carillion carrion latest
HSJ’s round up of the day’s must read stories and debate
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Government interrogates prices to stymie £200m-plus drugs overspend
Government has begun intensively monitoring new information on the generic drug market to try to stymie additional costs which are running into hundreds of millions of pounds, HSJ has been told.
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Auditors to investigate possible overcharging by specialist trusts
NHS England wants independent auditors to look into possible overcharging by London specialist trusts.
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Serco set to take over Carillion NHS contracts
Facilities management services at five NHS hospital trusts could be taken over by Serco in a £29m deal, following the collapse of Carillion.
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Professions call for more regulation following patient death
A patient’s death has prompted representatives of radiographers and radiologists to call for more regulation of sonographers.
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Hunt launches bid to reduce medication error deaths
Jeremy Hunt has launched a bid to reduce medication errors in the NHS, which new research says costs the NHS over 181,000 bed days and causes hundreds of deaths.
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Behan: Review will settle fit and proper person 'contested territory'
Care Quality Commission chief Sir David Behan has said the government’s review of the fit and proper person test offers the chance to settle “contested territory”.
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CQC to investigate what stops trusts preventing never events
The Care Quality Commission is to investigate the “barriers” that prevent hospitals from implementing rules designed to prevent never events.