All Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust articles – Page 7
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HSJ LocalImperial College Health Partners appoints managing director
Adrian Bull has been appointed as the managing director of the Imperial College Health Partners, the prospective academic health science network.
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HSJ Local
NHS Hillingdon 'overspending'
FINANCE: NHS Hillingdon was overspending at the end of month four, according to minutes released with the latest NHS North West London board papers.
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NewsHunt launches review of children's heart surgery services
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has asked the Independent Reconfiguration Panel to carry out a full review of the decision to close some children’s heart surgery centres.
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NewsChildren's heart surgery decision faces judicial review
A charity fighting the removal of children’s heart surgery from Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust intends to mount a judicial review of the decision, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
Royal Brompton anticipates using loan facility
FINANCE: The Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust anticipates that “pressure on its liquidity” will mean it may have to get commercial loans for some capital projects.
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HSJ Local
Royal Brompton predicts tougher private patient market
COMMERCIAL: The Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust predicts a tougher market for private patients over the coming years.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Cost revealed of PR battle over children's heart surgery
The public relations battle between the NHS and trusts that stood to lose services under the national reconfiguration of paediatric heart surgery cost nearly three-quarters of a million pounds, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPanel to review heart unit closure
An independent panel is set to review the planned closure of a children’s heart unit amid widespread anger among MPs at a shake-up of the services across England.
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Royal Brompton rules out merger after losing heart services
STRUCTURE: The specialist hospital at the centre of a High Court battle over paediatric heart surgery has ruled out merging with a large London neighbour.
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NewsChildren's heart surgery to end at Royal Brompton
Managers at a hospital at the centre of a bitter legal row over plans to streamline paediatric heart services said they were baffled at Wednesday’s decision to stop it performing heart surgery on children.
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HSJ Local
Royal Brompton's Project Diamond funding falls by £800k
FINANCE: The central London specialist trust’s income from NHS London fell to £6.7m in 2011-12, compared to £7.5m in 2010-11.
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NewsExpand independent sector provision, says 'most powerful' hospital chief
The NHS’s most powerful hospital trust chief executive has used a HSJ interview to call for an expansion of independent sector provision.
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NewsRoyal Brompton loses reconfiguration case at the High Court
A foundation trust has lost a High Court case it brought against a consultation on the national configuration of paediatric heart surgery services.
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CommentThe relationship between pharma and the NHS is challenging, not cosy
The three-cornered partnership between the NHS, pharma and academic medicine can only benefit from a more open culture, says Timothy Evans.
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Hospital in children's heart care row 'delaying' urgent improvements
STRUCTURE: A leading hospital has been accused of risking delays to much-needed improvements in children’s heart care across England by taking “premature” legal action and “putting a spanner in the works”.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy reconfiguration remains a difficult balance between commissioners and providers
The judicial process that saw a public consultation on children’s congenital heart services quashed following the Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust’s legal challenge has lessons for future NHS consultations, says David Mason.
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DH wins right to appeal Royal Brompton judicial review decision
STRUCTURE: The joint council of primary care trusts, set up by the Department of Health to review paediatric surgery, has won the right to appeal a judge’s decision that its consultation last year was unlawful.
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HSJ KnowledgeLegal lessons: securing judicial review of service reconfiguration
The Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust has successfully claimed Judicial Review of the Safe and Sustainable consultation about Paediatric Congenital Cardiac Services. Hempsons colleagues Bertie Leigh and Christian Dingwall explain how.
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CommentAcademic health science partnerships take shape in London
Lord Darzi’s phoenix-from-the-ashes academic health science partnership Imperial Health Partners has got off to a flying start, but one name was conspicuous by its absence on its list of potential partners.
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NewsJudge rules cardiac review consultation unlawful
A High Court judge has quashed the national consultation into the reconfiguration of paediatric cardiac services, ruling it was conducted unlawfully.