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David Kerr: the true value of reform must be defined by patient outcomes

9-Feb-2012
How productivity and efficiency benefit from focusing on utilisation

9-Feb-2012
CCP recommends biggest acute merger go ahead despite 'reducing patient choice'

8-Feb-2012
Exclusive: Care Quality Commission to get external assessor

7-Feb-2012
CQC calls for improved care quality data

7-Feb-2012
'New insights could help CCGs be clear on population health services'

6-Feb-2012
CQUIN and CQC quality results don't match, report finds

3-Feb-2012
Revealed: all but six of London's non-FT hospital trusts unviable by 2014-15

3-Feb-2012
Death rates higher after weekend admissions, study confirms

3-Feb-2012
Healthcare trust facing deficit considers 'wholesale' outsourcing

2-Feb-2012
Fears over 'destabilising' C difficile fines to be investigated

2 February 2012
Hinchingbrooke plans set out by new owners

1-Feb-2012
Poor outcomes continue for heart failure, audit reveals

31-Jan-2012
Exclusive: St George's drops out of St Helier merger bid

30-Jan-2012
Health board fined after patient contracts Legionnaires'

30-Jan-2012
More private clinics to treat implant patients for free

27-Jan-2012
'Reconfiguration may do more harm than good'

26-Jan-2012
A weak private sector is bad news for the NHS

26-Jan-2012
Private patient income continues to fall

26-Jan-2012
Exclusive: private acute providers warned over slowing NHS-funded work

26-Jan-2012
'Don't rush through regulation at the expense of innovation'

26 January 2012
Monitor licensing could stifle innovation - FTN

25-Jan-2012
More CQC inspections risk 'diverting' funds from patient care, MPs to be warned

25-Jan-2012
Exclusive: police investigating fraud claim at foundation trust

24-Jan-2012
Organ donation target 'will be missed'

24-Jan-2012
Managers encouraged to blow whistle on colleagues in draft plans to regulate NHS leaders

20-Jan-2012
Trusts facing 'difficult choice' over service provision

19-Jan-2012
Medway trialling Dr Foster hospital performance tool

17-Jan-2012
How to deliver a successful and sustainable hospital transformation

17-Jan-2012
Leadership and staff engagement 'critical' to hospital savings challenge - study

12-Jan-2012
Hospital mergers have little benefit, study suggests

12-Jan-2012
Cameron demands improvements to frontline nursing 'red tape'

12 January 2012
Training boards must 'resolve' financial conflicts of interest

11-Jan-2012
One in 10 people 'end 111 calls early'

10-Jan-2012
Trusts rewarded with 'quality premium' under Future Forum plan

10-Jan-2012
Burton predicts £5.4m deficit

9-Jan-2012
Liberating Ideas: the award-winning projects that could truly liberate the NHS

9-Jan-2012
Developing a new care pathway to enhance responses to alcohol cases

6-Jan-2012
Cameron announces 'Nursing Forum' review of care standards

5-Jan-2012
Nuffield Health makes pledge on implant surgery costs

5-Jan-2012
Give doctors stronger assisted dying powers, report says

5-Jan-2012
'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'

5-Jan-2012
How service line management can inspire improved behaviours throughout NHS organisations

5 January 2012
Your Humble Servant: the rallying cry for 2012

5 January 2012
Exclusive: contractual penalties to combat ‘hidden waits’ will not take effect until 2013-14

4-Jan-2012
Lansley vows to reduce readmissions

30-Dec-2011
Rise in number of hospital infections

29-Dec-2011
NHS Confederation calls for end to hospital-or-bust NHS

29-Dec-2011
The critical need to evaluate and improve back office functions

29-Dec-2011
Norovirus 'within expected levels'

23-Dec-2011
QIPP progress revealed after DH publishes cash savings

22-Dec-2011
Outpatient appointments increase by 4.5pc

21-Dec-2011
Nursing care standards report unveiled

21-Dec-2011
Hospital closure plan rejected by health secretary

20-Dec-2011
Met police drive demand for ambulances

16-Dec-2011
Prince Charles praises trusts for hospital food improvement

16-Dec-2011
Scottish hospital's infection control praised

16-Dec-2011
CCP rules against largest acute merger plan in the country

15-Dec-2011
Hospital infection control procedures criticised

15-Dec-2011
NHS trust sector in England 'heading towards deficit'

15-Dec-2011
Acute trusts risk understaffing as short notice requests increase

15-Dec-2011
GP contracts barrier to Spanish care model

15-Dec-2011
Mergers will not make unviable trusts sustainable, warn MPs

15-Dec-2011
Government urged to raise alcohol prices by leading medics

14-Dec-2011
Cost of rising emergency dementia admissions revealed

13-Dec-2011
Trusts could receive 'unfair' penalties without pressure ulcer guidance

13-Dec-2011
Private sector faces referral to Competition Commission

13-Dec-2011
London NHS strategy has 'no clear lead'

13-Dec-2011
Concerns over junior doctors' acute care training

13-Dec-2011
Lansley orders Care Quality Commission investigation

12-Dec-2011
Emergency readmissions above plan in Knowsley

9-Dec-2011
Readmissions above target limit at Halton and St Helens

9-Dec-2011
High-risk surgery care 'poor' for more than half of patients

9-Dec-2011
FT declines to support local community trust's FT bid after losing tender

8-Dec-2011
Monitor to review FT assessment process but 'the bar will remain high'

8 December 2011
'Specialised commissioning gives the NHS Commissioning Board a chance to delvier'

8 December 2011
Exclusive: Lansley to step up push on variation as second NHS atlas published

7-Dec-2011
Lung cancer services audit reveals little improvement

7-Dec-2011
Calls for trusts to source British food for patient meals

7-Dec-2011
Lansley sets 60 new performance indicators for hospitals

7-Dec-2011
Results business? The view from the HSJ Payments by Results conference 2011

6-Dec-2011
Nicholson predicts between 14 and 18 academic health science networks

6-Dec-2011
David Nicholson seeks NHS 'nature and culture' change to innovate

5-Dec-2011
Nicholson: providers and commissioners will be fined for not meeting NICE guidance

5-Dec-2011
Imperial to take on national patient safety role

2-Dec-2011
NHS 111 pilots delayed by legal challenge

1-Dec-2011
Operating framework piles pressure on hospital sector

1-Dec-2011
'Choosing the comfortable path is a route towards trouble'

1-Dec-2011
Patients' right to alternative provider should be 'publicised'

1 December 2011
'The Francis report will be the most important NHS event in 2012'

1 December 2011
Private sector could take £2bn slice of community services

30-Nov-2011
Hospitals plan strike contingency

30-Nov-2011
Price competition fears over provider penalties

29-Nov-2011
Ambulance services to move on to tariff

29-Nov-2011
Dr Foster: weekend A&E admissions '10pc more likely to die'

28-Nov-2011
Exclusive: weekend hospital arrivals up to 16pc more likely to die - DH

28-Nov-2011
Leading teaching hospital may have to outsource long-waiters

25-Nov-2011
Four hour target sole national A&E measure for 2012-13

24-Nov-2011
From Tokyo to Torbay, integrating services will prove to be the future

24-Nov-2011
Exclusive: Dr Foster names 10 trusts overlooking fast recovery processes

24-Nov-2011
Debt deferral measures to support would-be foundation trusts

24-Nov-2011
Maternity services 'overwhelmed' by rising births

23-Nov-2011
Exclusive: DH and Monitor in 'power battle' over running of regulator

23-Nov-2011
Most commissioners see readmissions rate rise despite harsh penalties

23-Nov-2011
Looped Lansley welcome message defended

22-Nov-2011
How a COPD care bundle is reducing readmissions

22-Nov-2011
Revealed: the six trusts that need DH support with their PFI

18-Nov-2011
Payment by results moves to 'bundled' contracts

17-Nov-2011
DH to act on thousands of long-wait patients

17-Nov-2011
'It's time for a one year maximum wait'

17-Nov-2011
Troubled foundation failed 'basic management' as debts grew

17-Nov-2011
Sheffield Hospitals chief elected chair of NHS Employers policy board

16-Nov-2011
Redesigned A&E departments to reduce violence

16-Nov-2011
The critical factors for an efficient acute medical care unit

16-Nov-2011
A&E waits at winter levels

15-Nov-2011
Osborne outlines PFI reassessment plans

15-Nov-2011
Clusters ordered to begin stocktake of 75,000 service contracts

11-Nov-2011
Mid Staffs A&E to close at night

11-Nov-2011
Circle to run Hinchingbrooke hospital

10-Nov-2011
'A new procurement model could fall foul of inertia'

10 November 2011
'Healing our finances needs a long term, not short term, strategy'

10 November 2011
Patients Association attacks care of older people

9-Nov-2011
Minister: eight-minute ambulance target could be eased

9-Nov-2011
FTN fails to appoint new chief executive

8-Nov-2011
£442 million NHS painkillers bill

8-Nov-2011
Patients in rural areas 'lost out' under targets

8-Nov-2011
Judge rules cardiac review consultation unlawful

7-Nov-2011
Public warned over A&E admissions

7-Nov-2011
Major reconfiguration plans emerging across England

4-Nov-2011
Wiping kidney waiting list could save £650m

3-Nov-2011
Expert panel to debate pathology services - free online Q&A for HSJ readers

3-Nov-2011
CQC investigation finds improvements still needed at the Pilgrim Hospital

3-Nov-2011
Can hospitals fully stop airborne transmission?

3 November 2011
East London trust to receive extra 'Darzi fellow' support

3 November 2011
HSJ interview: Clayton M Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Prescription

3 November 2011
Lack of hospital surgery networks risking more child deaths

3 November 2011
Why the NHS needs an information revolution to get into gear

3 November 2011
Monitor examines FTs' patient guarantees loophole

2-Nov-2011
Hospital death rate focus will disappear - Keogh

2-Nov-2011
Troubled trust gets fourth chair in two years

1-Nov-2011
Integrated care organisation proposes bundled tariff for services

1-Nov-2011
How a holistic approach to healthcare drives better value

1-Nov-2011
Lansley hails Academic Health model as 'wealth-creator' for UK

27-Oct-2011
Fourteen trusts rated worst by first official hospital death rate

27-Oct-2011
Children's care quality can be improved - study

27-Oct-2011
Exclusive: trusts demand £350m to get through FT pipeline

27-Oct-2011
London's hospital trusts set to miss waiting time targets

27 October 2011
Rising discharge delays blamed on NHS, not local authorities

27 October 2011
European integrated care models weighed up by struggling hospital

26-Oct-2011
Lansley plans increased spot checks to improve elderly care

26-Oct-2011
Large variation in nursing skill mix, figures show

26-Oct-2011
A blueprint to improve services for patients with hepatitis C

25-Oct-2011
Exclusive: new academic health science partnership planned

24-Oct-2011
Chief exec leaves underperforming ambulance trust

20 October 2011
How enhanced recovery in acute trusts can improve quality and outcomes

20 October 2011
Thirst for knowledge? Why the NHS should take clinical research seriously

20 October 2011
Older patients' heart care 'not equal'

19-Oct-2011
Will Any Qualified Provider bring the private sector and the community together?

19-Oct-2011
Improved hospital IT would save 'thousands' of lives

18-Oct-2011
Heart of England plans major expansion

18-Oct-2011
Frontline NHS services being cut - report

18-Oct-2011
Better buying: how to achieve value for money procurement

18-Oct-2011
NHS missing an 'opportunity' over complaints

18-Oct-2011
How predictive modelling can help reduce risk, and hospital admissions

17-Oct-2011
Bristol trusts discuss £1bn merger

17-Oct-2011
Stepping Hill poisoning cases hit seventeen

17-Oct-2011
Hospitals eye charges for disabled parking spaces

17-Oct-2011
UCL Partners to become 'biggest AHSC in the world'

17-Oct-2011
Thirty trusts set to miss aspirational target for FT status

13-Oct-2011
Courage, leadership and public support are needed to avoid nightmare scenarios

13 October 2011
DH to 'bring in line' commissioners who ration treatments

12-Oct-2011
Uneaten meals costing trusts £20m a year

11-Oct-2011
Mid Staffs warned on A&E staffing levels

10-Oct-2011
Hospital competition could 'negatively affect' quality

10-Oct-2011
Breathing space: how one trust's approach to respiratory pathways is improving outcomes

10-Oct-2011
The system needs fixing if we're to find the financiers

6-Oct-2011
'We cannot tolerate incompetence in the search for sustainability'

6-Oct-2011
Your Humble Servant: healthy fun for all the NHS family

6 October 2011
Growing financial pressure on most-challenged acutes

5-Oct-2011
Wide variety in UK organ donation rates

5-Oct-2011
Unison 'will not campaign' against all reconfigurations

4-Oct-2011
Mid Staffs to close 165 beds on road to recovery

4-Oct-2011
Former Mid Staffs chief admits to considering suicide

4-Oct-2011
How care bundling drives down mortality rates in pneumonia care

4-Oct-2011
NHS 111 to go nationwide

3-Oct-2011
Ambulance services strive to avoid A&E

30-Sep-2011
Number of trusts predicting 2011-12 deficit trebles compared with last year - DH report

30-Sep-2011
CCP puts patient benefit over patient choice in acute merger

30-Sep-2011
Southampton gets FT status after DH promise of 'restructured' debt

30-Sep-2011
DH considers a country-wide push on reconfiguration

29-Sep-2011
Monitor threatens collective punishment for Greater Manchester over cancer

29-Sep-2011
Critical care is risking lives, say surgeons

29-Sep-2011
'Healthcare history can help us transform elderly care today'

29 September 2011
Noel Plumridge: checking up on the Nicholson challenge

29 September 2011
CQC sets out tougher inspections approach

28-Sep-2011
Tighter regulation called for as struck off nurses 'return to hospitals'

27-Sep-2011
Financial challenge facing NHS is 'unprecedented' - Farrar

27-Sep-2011
Fair for all? What the future holds for pensions in the NHS

27-Sep-2011
Is more surgery the answer to the nation's obesity crisis?

26-Sep-2011
Birmingham Women's loses chair and chief exec

26-Sep-2011
Why sharing information is central to preventing heart conditions

23-Sep-2011
Organ donor plans condemned by Archbishop

23-Sep-2011
Integrated care needs the clinical-managerial marriage to work

23-Sep-2011
Sixty hospitals face 'collapse' over PFI deals, admits Lansley

22-Sep-2011
'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'

22-Sep-2011
NHS giants sound warning of acute financial turmoil

22-Sep-2011
Exclusive: top teaching hospitals under threat from tariff system

22-Sep-2011
Poor NHS cost data will delay national pricing, Audit Commission warns

22-Sep-2011
Readmissions policy costing hospital trusts £2.3m a year 'should change'

22 September 2011
Emergency services commissioning needs clarity, committee warns

21-Sep-2011
Keogh: Clinicians to blame for problems at Mid Staffs

21-Sep-2011
Learning from lean: the techniques transforming pathology services

21-Sep-2011
Blood donor reforms ‘don’t go far enough’

20-Sep-2011
How pairing clinicians with managers could speed up clinical excellence

20-Sep-2011
The toolkit hoping to revolutionise the use of patient discharge data

20-Sep-2011
NHS leaders' views sought on clinical research

19-Sep-2011
Rise in patients waiting for treatment

16-Sep-2011
Regulator found safety concerns at half of hospitals and care homes

16-Sep-2011
Peers take aim at Health Social Care Bill

16-Sep-2011
Transparency is central to the new NHS, and foundation trusts should not be exempt

15-Sep-2011
DH: Clinical senates will not ‘interfere with or constrain’ CCGs

15-Sep-2011
Trusts 'face £5bn rescue bill' to avoid hospital closures

15-Sep-2011
DH paid £8m to exit private contract following suspension of services

15 September 2011
Health and Wellbeing Boards 'should drive integration'

15 September 2011
Rebecca Leighton returned to nursing register but with restrictions

14-Sep-2011
The case for reinvigorating management and leadership training in the NHS

13-Sep-2011
How a change in practice can reduce hospital admissions for older dementia patients

13-Sep-2011
Hospital PFI deals attacked after car park charges increase

9-Sep-2011
Debate: is general practice pulling its weight in the efficiency challenge?

9-Sep-2011
HSJ special report: sustainability in the NHS

8-Sep-2011
Liberating Ideas Award 2011: can your idea benefit the rest of the NHS?

8 September 2011
Pharma sector calls on trusts to share data with industry

8 September 2011
German firm linked to DH hospital plan down-plays involvement

7-Sep-2011
Commercial-only finance plans for FTs scaled back

7-Sep-2011
Exclusive: 500 avoidable deaths a year in London due to understaffing

7-Sep-2011
Virtual care service launched for North West stroke patients

7-Sep-2011
London trust wide of the mark on waiting times

7-Sep-2011
Only two hospitals rated 'poor' in annual PEAT scores

6-Sep-2011
DH in talks for 'international players' to take on struggling hospitals

5-Sep-2011
'It's time for managers to stand up and be counted'

2-Sep-2011
'Health services need a new type of investment to help achieve savings'

2-Sep-2011
Health secretary to retain reconfiguration veto

1-Sep-2011
Cull hospital and consultant numbers - Crisp

1-Sep-2011
FT plans 20 per cent growth in private patient income

1-Sep-2011
Eighty trusts call in lawyers over board level exits

1 September 2011
FT predicting significant fall in MoD income

1 September 2011
Nearly 90 per cent of trusts failing new A&E indicators

1 September 2011
Radiotherapy centre plans submitted in Worcestershire

31-Aug-2011
Royal Wolverhampton predicts £2.6m debt

31-Aug-2011
OFT issues warning on private providers' sweetener payments to consultants

31-Aug-2011
Positive waiting time data called into question

31-Aug-2011
How a broader view of emergency readmissions could reduce overall activity levels

31-Aug-2011
Why valuable health outcomes data is vital to improving care

31-Aug-2011
Maximising the mutually beneficial value of apprenticeships in acute care

30-Aug-2011
Healthcare without limits: what the EU directive on cross-border care means for the NHS

30-Aug-2011
Drug-related deaths down on previous year

26-Aug-2011
Hospitals seeing 900 more alcohol related cases a day

25 August 2011
Sally Gainsbury: PROMs prove McKinsey right - nearly

25 August 2011
Trust access to PFI funding could be constrained by Treasury rule change

25 August 2011
NHS patients will wait longer under reform - Unison

24-Aug-2011
Heart services consultation receives large response

24-Aug-2011
Disagreement over new 'death rate' measure continues

23-Aug-2011
Less than a third of patients asked about diet

23-Aug-2011
Why sustainable health services are key to the future of healthcare

23-Aug-2011
A hire price to pay: how leasing equipment saves money and improves service quality

23-Aug-2011
'No evidence' that trainee doctors impact patient safety

22-Aug-2011
Improving the quality of nutritional care in hospitals

22-Aug-2011
More long wait patients receive NHS treatment

19-Aug-2011
Fifteen per cent of patients wait more than year at hospital

18-Aug-2011
Maidstone and Barts have most mixed sex breaches

18-Aug-2011
A new opportunity to protect and improve patient advocacy

18 August 2011
How enhanced recovery is transforming surgical care pathways

18 August 2011
'Expert' social enterprises still important to healthcare services

17-Aug-2011
Huge variation in reoperation rates for bowel cancer

17-Aug-2011
Fourteen FTs ended 2010-11 in deficit

16-Aug-2011
Hepatitis 'epidemic' warning as cases grow

11-Aug-2011
Manchester and Birmingham hardest hit in fourth night of rioting

10-Aug-2011
Pregnancy-related deaths rise 'worrying' doctors

10-Aug-2011
Medical resistance hampers doctor-patient decisions programme

10-Aug-2011
Ambulance crews attacked during London riots

9-Aug-2011
Fewer tonsil operations are risking patient lives, hospitals warned

5-Aug-2011
NHS trusts to take over community service assets

5-Aug-2011
NHS lags behind in social enterprise drive

5-Aug-2011
Sue Slipman: public board meetings are not a quick fix for accountability

4-Aug-2011
What the new healthcare environment holds for clinical negligence indemnity

4-Aug-2011
First foundation trust authorised in four months announced

4-Aug-2011
Over half of FT plans awaiting DH approval

4-Aug-2011
More district generals predicting financial problems

4-Aug-2011
Improving end of life care through patient record registers

4 August 2011
'Financial reward' kidney donation comment sparks row

3-Aug-2011
New drivers will be asked to sign up to donor register

1-Aug-2011
The crucial role health charities have to play

1-Aug-2011
Student nurses withdrawn from hospital amid CQC concerns

29-Jul-2011
Liver transplant patients could hit 4,000 by 2020

28-Jul-2011
Acutes target community assets worth almost £3bn

28-Jul-2011
Foundations reap income from transferred services

28-Jul-2011
Lansley's delay to reconfiguration 'risks patient safety'

28-Jul-2011
Optimum value: transforming healthcare delivery from volume driven to value driven

28 July 2011
CCP calls in London mega-merger for scrutiny

27-Jul-2011
Poor reporting on quality 'letting down' NHS - Sir Bruce

27-Jul-2011
Private hospital spend varies widely, study shows

26-Jul-2011
Marked change in pathology provision expected

25-Jul-2011
Perfect placement: getting patients out of hospital and onto their preferred pathway

25-Jul-2011
Maternity units 'struggling' with rising birth rates

25-Jul-2011
How to get best value from pathology providers

25-Jul-2011
Hepatitis B fears at hospital delay surgery

22-Jul-2011
Providing mental healthcare alongside physical healthcare

21-Jul-2011
The NHS Commissioning Board must support CCGs, not overshadow them

21-Jul-2011
Local services need the backup of national support

21-Jul-2011
Emergency readmissions payment ban being ignored

21-Jul-2011
Why battling surgical site infections can complement infection control

20-Jul-2011
Board meetings take few decisions, report finds

20-Jul-2011
Safeguarding: protecting the almost adult

20-Jul-2011
MPs urged to step in over children's heart unit closure

19-Jul-2011
London 2012 health services will not face CQC checks

18-Jul-2011
'Refrain' from most Microsoft purchases, requests government

18-Jul-2011
End of life care must be prioritised to avoid A&E admissions

18-Jul-2011
How to lead NHS transformation

18-Jul-2011
Stem cell services project launched

15-Jul-2011
FT delays will create near impossible challenge, Monitor warns

14-Jul-2011
Four in 10 will get cancer - Macmillian

14-Jul-2011
Maternity services need radical reform - RCOG

14-Jul-2011
Clinical portals - technology to empower health service delivery

14 July 2011
East of England raises concerns in accountability reviews

14 July 2011
Five security threats to healthcare technology: how to protect your organisation

14 July 2011
Funding crisis: Greek ruin could come to the NHS

14 July 2011
Lansley heralds change in size and role of acutes

13-Jul-2011
Easton: no quality in many savings plans

13-Jul-2011
Rise in complaints about health bodies

13-Jul-2011
Supporting surgery: how to get the best out of locum surgeons

13-Jul-2011
Lung cancer survival differences revealed

12-Jul-2011
The difficulties reform poses for improving quality in the NHS - an HSJ round table

12-Jul-2011
North Staffordshire PCT in obesity surgery appeal

11-Jul-2011
AQP 'bastardised', says Care UK boss

8-Jul-2011
FTN: the DH needs to explain where the money has gone

8-Jul-2011
Nicholson urges MPs to end obsession with bed numbers

8-Jul-2011
Hospital autonomy makes 'no difference' to performance

8-Jul-2011
Easton: QIPP can provide 'crisis' needed to break hospital dependence

8-Jul-2011
CMO recommends directors for research in NHS trusts

7-Jul-2011
Aspirant FTs to have debt 'restructured'

7-Jul-2011
Chase Farm is 'signal' ministers will not back major NHS change, says Hunt

7-Jul-2011
Foundation trust jumps gun to calculate 'official' mortality rates

7-Jul-2011
Warner: DH resisting Dilnot reforms

7-Jul-2011
Community provider future placed in doubt

7-Jul-2011
Data shows mixed results in reducing 'low value' treatments

7 July 2011
Power to the patients: promised improvements to patient choice need backing up

7 July 2011
CQC under fire from MPs over vacancies

6-Jul-2011
Sir Bruce appoints lead for clinical networks scrutiny

5-Jul-2011
DH tsar slams NHS shake-up

4-Jul-2011
Flu pandemic could cost UK nearly £50bn

4-Jul-2011
Fine trusts and hospitals more for data breaches, says information chief

1-Jul-2011
Board brilliance revealed: study into top performing boards finds 19 top organisations

30-Jun-2011
NHS Direct bid for FT status under threat from 111

30 June 2011
‘Specialist’ doctors on CCG boards could be GPs

29-Jun-2011
Four hour A&E performance standard retained

29-Jun-2011
Health secretary gains powers over NHS Commissioning Board in amended bill

29-Jun-2011
Avoid 'slash and burn' approach to spending cuts - BMA

28-Jun-2011
Battling the elements: how one trust's fight for foundation status holds valuable lessons

28-Jun-2011
Doctors vote against referral centres

27-Jun-2011
Most trusts could be using faulty surgical tools

27-Jun-2011
Review children's heart unit closures, MPs told

24-Jun-2011
District generals face questions over their survival

24-Jun-2011
Imperial appoints SHA figures to board

23-Jun-2011
Simulation Lab: test your healthcare improvement ideas

23-Jun-2011
HSJ publishes latest in series of interactive online simulations

23-Jun-2011
Auditors to query use of foundations’ resources

23 June 2011
Preventing acute kidney injury: an HSJ special report

23 June 2011
Why more freedom for foundations could mean more challenges

23 June 2011
New service for private patients launched

22-Jun-2011
Exclusive: NHS efficiency drive won’t close whole hospitals, says Sir David

22-Jun-2011
DH denies FT momentum will be lost

22-Jun-2011
How public involvement was a foundation for improving healthcare delivery in Hertfordshire

21-Jun-2011
Half of NHS staff pessimistic on patient care

21-Jun-2011
Trusts missing NICE guidelines on stroke treatment

21-Jun-2011
Information strategy delayed until autumn, DH confirms

20-Jun-2011
Royal colleges to be enlisted to identify procedures at risk of 'cherry picking'

20-Jun-2011
Action demanded over hospital deaths

20-Jun-2011
King's Fund calls for hospital mergers

20-Jun-2011
DH redrawing failure regime to avoid up-front political battles

20-Jun-2011
Circle floats on stock market

17-Jun-2011
Bare midriffs banned at hospital

17-Jun-2011
Negligence payouts soared to £1bn in 2010-11

17-Jun-2011
Chesterfield Royal sets aside £40,000 for consultants to tell FT 'story'

17-Jun-2011
Lincolnshire Partnership FT finds £1.3m gap in efficiency plan

16-Jun-2011
Queen Victoria Hospital passes CQC dignity inspection

16-Jun-2011
18 week waiting target breached at Pennine Acute

16-Jun-2011
Steve Field warns of clinicians' concerns over health reforms

16-Jun-2011
Trusts face readmissions penalties totalling £600m

16-Jun-2011
Older women less likely to have breast cancer surgery

16-Jun-2011
Lower qualified pathology workforce ‘could make 25 per cent savings’

16-Jun-2011
Rare cancer drugs budget underspent by nearly half

16-Jun-2011
PFI rethink stalls hospital building plans

16-Jun-2011
Clinical services should do their bit for efficiency, as well as productivity

16 June 2011
Commissioners to investigate 'disproportionate' activity rise

16 June 2011
The government shouldn't simply leave the past behind

16 June 2011
United front: why leadership is vital to a successful merger

14-Jun-2011
Coalition reform agreement sees deadlines extended and relaxed

14-Jun-2011
Fewer young blood donors prompts 'generation gap' fears

14-Jun-2011
Patients 'being coded as palliative to cut death rates', inquiry told

14-Jun-2011
Exclusive: ministers set to overrule Future Forum

13-Jun-2011
Reform changes: Monitor 'to maintain foundation trust checks'

13-Jun-2011
How clinically driven antenatal care can deliver better value maternity services

13-Jun-2011
Doctors urge Cameron to speed Hinchingbrooke takeover

10-Jun-2011
'The independent sector has a track record of serving patients extremely well'

9-Jun-2011
Cameron criticised over test wait rise

9-Jun-2011
Trusts warned of increased legal costs as negligence claims rocket

9-Jun-2011
Centralising blood services could help trusts achieve huge savings

9-Jun-2011
The government's failure to justify reform has left the public short of options

9 June 2011
Ministers warned over blood service changes

8-Jun-2011
PM pledge means no change on 18 week target

7-Jun-2011
Fawcett makes sudden exit from General Healthcare

2-Jun-2011
'Biased' surgeons blamed for unnecessary recall

2-Jun-2011
More performance data to be released under new transparency guidelines

2 June 2011
The key steps to delivering excellence in emergency surgery

31-May-2011
DH set to extend delay plagued IT contract

27-May-2011
Approval for £77m hospital redevelopment

26-May-2011
'Better quality data will help to reduce variations in care'

26-May-2011
Struggling trusts owe DH quarter of a billion in bailout cash

26-May-2011
Mixed sex ward breaches drop under tougher regime

26 May 2011
Blood service looks set to remain in house

24-May-2011
Sharp rise in young attending A&E

24-May-2011
Leading the line: how service line management can promote clinical excellence

24-May-2011
Lung cancer audit shows huge variations between trusts

23-May-2011
HPA report finds weaknesses in London emergency preparedness

20-May-2011
Exclusive: Commissioning Board will be told to save cancer lives

20-May-2011
Providers warn over dangers of PCT ‘war chest’

19-May-2011
Competition of services could have 'unintended consequences', warns FTN

19 May 2011
No evidence for money saving potential of community care pathways

19 May 2011
CQC risks 'almost certain' failure to intervene

18-May-2011
How patient opinions are shaping services

17-May-2011
Stroke care progress lagging, report suggests

13-May-2011
Slipman to leave independent FT Network after a year

12-May-2011
Clinical networks to respond to competition fears

12-May-2011
£1.9bn cut to pay budgets revealed in trust CIPs

12-May-2011
Senior medical figures criticise post-discharge care

12-May-2011
Exclusive: care quality variations revealed in Dr Foster data

12 May 2011
Hospital death rate indicator delayed

12 May 2011
How pseudonymisation can uphold patient data security

12 May 2011
Why compliance is key to better patient and commercial relationships

12 May 2011
NHS Blood and Transplant in price freeze pledge

11-May-2011
NHS funding model is no longer 'resilient' - Britnell

11-May-2011
How free technologies are mapping new ground for community health projects

11-May-2011
The 'sweet spot': how to maximise value from nurse numbers

10-May-2011
Young patients oppose child cardiac changes

9-May-2011
'Troubling' DH delay stalls Mid Staffs inquiry

6-May-2011
Hospital chief executive steps down after board delays FT application

6-May-2011
Minister announces merger option for non-FT acute

6-May-2011
Most trusts to miss moving target on information governance

6-May-2011
Smaller trusts forced to rethink FT plans

5-May-2011
The smoother pathways leading to reduced length of stay

5 May 2011
Tory peer criticises hospital wait

4-May-2011
How a chemotherapy outreach service is putting care into the community

4-May-2011
Grand designs: enhancing recovery on a bigger scale

3-May-2011
Are commissioners in it for the long haul?

28-Apr-2011
Good call: why telehealth is so important to patients with long-term conditions

28-Apr-2011
Monitor increases efficiency target to 'reflect the economic outlook'

28-Apr-2011
The barriers to achieving cost effective interventions

28 April 2011
Lansley blames waiting time rise on snow

27-Apr-2011
No hospital doctors on consortia boards

27-Apr-2011
Improving vascular outcomes: the challenge of delivering NHS Health Checks

26-Apr-2011
Acute mixed-sex ward breaches still in the thousands

26-Apr-2011
Pressure ulcers spark serious incident reports at Oxford Radcliffe

21-Apr-2011
Homerton just shy of budget surplus target

21-Apr-2011
Is the NHS constitution still relevant in the new NHS landscape?

21 April 2011
Trusts set 'unlikely' savings targets for 2011-12

20-Apr-2011
Waiting times rising amid cuts, King's Fund finds

20-Apr-2011
Multi agency investigation into Legionnaires' disease case

20-Apr-2011
Stepping up: the collaborative approach to becoming a model of innovation

20-Apr-2011
Chase Farm services decision faces further delays

19-Apr-2011
NHS denying patients care, claims surgeon group

18-Apr-2011
Identifying areas of readmission, and implementing the right interventions

18-Apr-2011
Why effective internal communications have never been so important

17-Apr-2011
Trusts failing on data security

15-Apr-2011
Preventing hospital-associated venous thromboembolism

14-Apr-2011
Nicholson warns on 'unrealistic' savings plans

14-Apr-2011
Magical mystery shoppers: driving service improvements with quality feedback

14 April 2011
Performance surplus hides the fact many trusts are facing critical finance problems

14 April 2011
Private providers to share training costs - Lansley

14 April 2011
Variation in surgery rates hints at savings potential

14 April 2011
Your humble servant: Lansley live - for one month only

14 April 2011
Government information strategy draft scrapped

13-Apr-2011
Emergency care wards 'struggling', warns college president

13-Apr-2011
Accident and emergency waits rise 65 per cent

13-Apr-2011
Hospital cleaning system criticised

12-Apr-2011
Big gap in cancer operation survival rates

12-Apr-2011
Accident and emergency alcohol help for young 'lacking'

7-Apr-2011
Shaping young people's services with young people's input

7-Apr-2011
Book review: 2030 - The Future of Medicine

7 April 2011
Burns care across three regions 'unsustainable'

7 April 2011
First after-death care guidance issued

7 April 2011
Foundation trusts call for more time ahead of new A&E indicators

7 April 2011
How staff engagement can improve financial efficiency - in a better environment for staff and patients

7 April 2011
Urgent care efficiency tool to get nationwide roll out

7 April 2011
Why evidence-based, patient-centred care is the key to cutting NHS costs

7 April 2011
Realising actual cost savings through organisational strategies

5-Apr-2011
Unison poll reveals privatisation unease

4-Apr-2011
A new approach to workforce planning needed for surgeons to deliver high quality care

4-Apr-2011
Reforms forcing managers to choose between job and prison, Information Commissioner warns

1-Apr-2011
Nursing Times collaborates with NICE on e-learning

31-Mar-2011
Hip replacement patient length of stay falls 25 per cent in five years

31 March 2011
NHS missing out on high-cost equipment savings

31 March 2011
The future relationship between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry

30-Mar-2011
Council care better than private sector - CQC

30-Mar-2011
Rethinking clinical services: avoiding the hidden costs of saving and efficiency strategies

30-Mar-2011
Tough at the top: the challenges facing management teams in the new NHS

29-Mar-2011
CQC praises choice but warns on speed of improvements

29-Mar-2011
Barking and other London trusts fall short of savings targets

24-Mar-2011
Lansley: reform criticisms 'not valid'

24-Mar-2011
Exclusive: Commissioners curtail soaring referrals

24 March 2011
Exploring the US physician assistant workforce model: a contribution to QIPP

24 March 2011
Heart surgeons call for strong revalidation regime

24 March 2011
Patients more satisfied with hospitals than GP services

24 March 2011
Trusts risking fines with mixed-sex wards

24 March 2011
Watch now: KPMG head of health on the challenges facing the NHS

24-Mar-2011
South Tees Hospitals offers new diagnostic test

23-Mar-2011
NHS reforms 'could lead to US-style system'

23-Mar-2011
Diagnosing opportunities: using data to inform planning

23-Mar-2011
Tower Hamlets beats surplus target despite acute overspend

22-Mar-2011
Bradford plans to protect productivity next winter

22-Mar-2011
Bad habits in young people falling, study suggests

22-Mar-2011
Confed lobbies for working time directive changes

22-Mar-2011
NHS satisfaction at 'all-time high'

22-Mar-2011
Hull trust received mortality review

21-Mar-2011
Making clinical nurse specialists make more of an impact

21-Mar-2011
Simulation Lab: What if I introduced oral chemotherapy?

21-Mar-2011
Simulation Lab: What if my CT and MRI scanner demand increased?

21-Mar-2011
Whipps Cross chief exec steps down to work on merger plan

21-Mar-2011
NHS 'must publish performance data'

21-Mar-2011
Nottingham University Hospitals pilots 'hourly checks' on patients

21-Mar-2011
CQC warns East Sussex Hospitals over staffing levels

21-Mar-2011
Stephen Eames: it's time to embrace disruption

18-Mar-2011
GP appointment frustrations revealed

18-Mar-2011
DH ignored advice to cut children's acute top-ups

17 March 2011
DH struggling to achieve consultant choice within deadline

17 March 2011
Don't simply cut posts to deliver QIPP savings, Easton warns trusts

17 March 2011
Dozens of consortia match PCT area

17 March 2011
East Kent Hospitals University FT likely to seek £8m surplus next year

17 March 2011
What will the private sector do with failed hospitals?

17 March 2011
Your humble servant: the spectre of Stalin looms over year end

17 March 2011
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Hospitals to seek FT status in 2013

16-Mar-2011
Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals set to apply for FT status in May

16-Mar-2011
East Sussex Hospitals Trust to make FT application in 2012

16-Mar-2011
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals wins deanery bid

16-Mar-2011
Efficiency training for managers underway at Ashford and St Peter’s

16-Mar-2011
A&E pressures at Ashford and St Peter’s

16-Mar-2011
Blood service privatisation criticised in Commons

16-Mar-2011
Newcastle hospitals firm speeds cancer screening

15-Mar-2011
Doncaster plans extension of new bariatric service

15-Mar-2011
Hinchingbrooke failing to protect patients, says CQC

15-Mar-2011
Health bodies withdraw from alcohol policy

14-Mar-2011
Developing community children's health services

14-Mar-2011
What do we really care about in the NHS?

14-Mar-2011
DH 'reneging' on cancer drugs fund pledge

14-Mar-2011
Liverpool Heart and Chest among top performers in advancing quality programme

11-Mar-2011
St Helens and Knowsley agrees to £1.95m over-performance cap

11-Mar-2011
Leicester Partnership landed with performance notice

11-Mar-2011
NHS complaints regulations overhaul announced

11-Mar-2011
Department rejects blood services claims

11-Mar-2011
HSJ Efficiency Awards open for entries

10-Mar-2011
Consortia staff numbers will be limited

10 March 2011
Drawing on past lessons to improve future public health and wellbeing

10 March 2011
FT quality reports unreliable, Audit Commission finds

10 March 2011
FTs warn budget cuts could cause organisational failure

10 March 2011
GPs concerned over reforms' impact on hospital finances, poll shows

10 March 2011
'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'

10 March 2011
Midwife-led units threatened by falling birth rates

10 March 2011
Moorfields abandons Abu Dhabi expansion plan

10 March 2011
Most serious incidents rise by more than a fifth

10 March 2011
Trauma system delay deaths 'unnecessary'

10 March 2011
Two PCTs find temporary homes for community services as divestment deadline looms

10 March 2011
New hospitals in Mid Yorkshire fully open

9-Mar-2011
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals in dispute with PCT over income

9-Mar-2011
Dartford and Gravesham busts MRSA target but remains free of norovirus

9-Mar-2011
Dartford and Gravesham struggling on ‘bare below elbows’ compliance

9-Mar-2011
Waits at Southport and Ormskirk above national threshold

9-Mar-2011
NHS faces reform challenges - Nuffield Trust

9-Mar-2011
Hospitals will not have to close - Lansley

9-Mar-2011
Kent acute trusts propose merger

9-Mar-2011
Maidstone and Tunbridge nearing limits for infection control

9-Mar-2011
Enhancing recovery pathways for planned surgical care

9-Mar-2011
Dr Foster chief executive stands down

9-Mar-2011
Epsom and St Helier will not hit A&E target

9-Mar-2011
PCT clusters should have guarantee of existence beyond 2013, says Nuffield Trust

9-Mar-2011
Contaminated blood inquiry to hear evidence

8-Mar-2011
Nurses reporting more accidents

8 March 2011
£775m for medical outcomes research

7-Mar-2011
GPs demand hike in pay

4-Mar-2011
MP warns of 'huge gap' in heart care provision

4-Mar-2011
Cally Bann

3-Mar-2011
Effective regulation needs the right touch, at the right time

3 March 2011
Midlands issues may be localised, but they have wide implications

3 March 2011
PCTs will decide 'never event' fines for providers

3 March 2011
Public health 'confusion' for GPs

3 March 2011
Tariff weighting could 'reduce' trust mergers - King's Fund

3 March 2011
West Midlands PCTs underperforming on cancer referral times

3 March 2011
NHS North Somerset receives ‘reablement’ funding from Department of Health

2-Mar-2011
Rocketing transfer delays at Shrewsbury and Telford put target at risk

2-Mar-2011
SHA returns reserves to NHS Herefordshire

2-Mar-2011
North Cumbria UH still in the red despite £10m handout

2-Mar-2011
Patient falls increase at East Cheshire NHS Trust

2-Mar-2011
NHS Ealing working towards year-end breakeven after agreeing cap with acute

2-Mar-2011
CQC raises concerns about patient nutrition at Dorset County Hospital FT

2-Mar-2011
Tameside in significant breach of foundation terms

2-Mar-2011
Hospital's A&E too small - minister

2-Mar-2011
A pathway to success for total joint replacement services

2-Mar-2011
Central Manchester FT may over-perform on PCT contract by £2.5m

1-Mar-2011
Tameside Hospital FT contract threatens to go £1.9m over budget

1-Mar-2011
South West Essex still heading for deficit despite improvement

1-Mar-2011
NHS Southwark at risk from £13.7m provider over-spends

1-Mar-2011
Oxford Radcliffe and Nuffield merger under scrutiny

1-Mar-2011
Barnsley FT struggling with C difficile stretch target

1-Mar-2011
First ambulance trusts achieve FT status

1-Mar-2011
Hinchingbrooke continues to predict breakeven as deficit grows

1-Mar-2011
Health lottery plans unveiled

1-Mar-2011
Hinchingbrooke seeks to appoint directors for transition to franchise

1-Mar-2011
Governors wanted at Norfolk and Norwich FT

1-Mar-2011
NW London Hospitals Trust behind target on major schemes savings plan

28-Feb-2011
Royal Cornwall ordered to offer gynae patients alternative provider

28-Feb-2011
Central London community trust plans integrated care pilot for diabetes and elderly care

28-Feb-2011
Commissioning change 'delaying QIPP' at Newcastle FT

28-Feb-2011
More than 100 same sex breaches at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

28-Feb-2011
Workforce spending cuts aid Princess Alexandra's finances

28-Feb-2011
North Devon Healthcare Trust breaches waiting target for urodynamics

28-Feb-2011
Devon Partnership Trust FT application imminent

28-Feb-2011
Pennine acute misses 12 out of 65 performance targets

28-Feb-2011
Homerton University Hospital FT top in capital for average ambulance handover time

28-Feb-2011
Barking, Havering, and Redbridge hospitals rated red for ambulance handover

28-Feb-2011
Chelsea and Westminster FT has second best ambulance handover time in London

28-Feb-2011
Barnet and Chase Farm 'concerned' over cardiovascular reconfiguration

28-Feb-2011
Cash shortages delay George Eliot's outpatient scheme

28-Feb-2011
NHS Brent's chief executive to move on

28-Feb-2011
UH South Manchester forecast to over-perform on Stockport contract

28-Feb-2011
NHS Warrington chief plans power handover to GPs

25-Feb-2011
Stockport FT contract £2.5m overspent, while waiting times increase

25-Feb-2011
PCT disputes "unexplained increase" in admissions to University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust

25-Feb-2011
NHS North Somerset to splash out on community wards

25-Feb-2011
Stroke care on the NHS 'unequal'

25-Feb-2011
Royal United Bath reports best A&E performance in region

24-Feb-2011
TCS sees Northampton General Hospital Trust gain services

24-Feb-2011
£1m from private mental health underspend funding acute overspends at NHS Dudley

24-Feb-2011
Nottingham University Hospitals exceeds yearly C.Diff target

24-Feb-2011
NHS Lincolnshire to develop services at Skegness Hospital

24-Feb-2011
Alcohol causes 7 per cent of hospital admissions

24-Feb-2011
Loss of 80,000 care beds will intensify bed-blocking

24-Feb-2011
Alcohol harm is causing a nasty headache

24 February 2011
Andrew Dillon: the new mission for NICE

24 February 2011
Buckinghamshire trust rejects PCT waiting times plea

24 February 2011
NHS Direct renews plans for FT status in 2013

24 February 2011
Targets in sharp focus for the North West

24 February 2011
Your Humble Servant: A twit tweets

24 February 2011
CQC drops in on Weston Area Health Trust

23-Feb-2011
New cardiology unit for Gateshead trust

23-Feb-2011
CQC demands urgent improvements Plymouth Hospitals

23-Feb-2011
Mid Staffs faces ‘worst case scenario’ of cash deficit

23-Feb-2011
Mid Staffs making ‘significant progress’ on nurse recruitment

23-Feb-2011
NHS warned to expect surge in clinical negligence claims

23-Feb-2011
Barts double merger moves a step closer

23-Feb-2011
NHS slashes stroke and heart deaths

23-Feb-2011
53,000 NHS jobs 'under threat'

23-Feb-2011
NHS 24 launches health check service

22-Feb-2011
Compensation payment reform backed by panel

22-Feb-2011
Ministers warned PCT clustering 'will damage innovators'

21-Feb-2011
Trusts' safety alert compliance still short despite improvements

21-Feb-2011
TV chef attacks politicians over hospital food

21-Feb-2011
Experts warn of increase in alcohol-related deaths

21-Feb-2011
NHS Bolton sees poor waiting times performance deteriorate among its providers

21-Feb-2011
Making changes to achieve savings - without disastrous consequences

21-Feb-2011
NHS Lewisham predicting £8.8m overspend with principal providers by year-end

18-Feb-2011
NHS Richmond & Twickenham cluster predicting bigger overspend after pessimistic assessment of acute challenges

18-Feb-2011
Readmissions payment ban will cost hospitals £790m and create 'perverse incentives' - Confed

18-Feb-2011
Eastern and Coastal Kent providers to increase access to 4x4 vehicles

18-Feb-2011
Hospitals urged to check suction equipment

18-Feb-2011
University Hospitals Leicester Trust fails to improve A&E times despite PCT warning

18-Feb-2011
Government bid to avoid herbal medicines rule

17-Feb-2011
Buckinghamshire Healthcare rejects PCT call to extend waiting times

17-Feb-2011
Bill Moyes: the reform agenda presents a massive opportunity

17 February 2011
Cally Bann

17 February 2011
'Challenged' acute trusts abandon independent FT status plans

17 February 2011
Competition can work, but only with the right tactics

17 February 2011
Joint surgery redesign could save trusts £664m

17 February 2011
Quality and finance problems evident in the East

17 February 2011
Real healthcare reform needs a new conceptual landscape

17 February 2011
Shake-up opposed by Lansley gets green light

17 February 2011
The importance of administration, management and bureaucracy in healthcare

17 February 2011
PCTs agree to consult on children's congenital heart services

16-Feb-2011
Yorks and North East pathfinders reflect national uncertainty

16-Feb-2011
Post discharge death rates revealed

16-Feb-2011
Early death 'more likely in the North'

16-Feb-2011
DH looks to private sector to save money on blood service

16-Feb-2011
Public-private health services show bright promise in Spain

16-Feb-2011
Blackpool Teaching FT overperforms by £3.8m on NHS Blackpool contract

15-Feb-2011
Anti-trespass laws to be used to shift bed blocking patients

15-Feb-2011
Alcohol admissions 'to hit 1.5m by 2015'

15-Feb-2011
Early A&E redesigns have implications for today's commissioners

15-Feb-2011
Two performance notices given to Mid Essex trust

14-Feb-2011
Call for 'drunk' patients to pay for treatment

14-Feb-2011
Providing visually impaired patients with the right access to information

14-Feb-2011
NHS Direct offers services to GPs

11-Feb-2011
A&E waiting times worst since 2004

11-Feb-2011
Foundation Trust Network to split from Confed

10-Feb-2011
Council planning change could slash hospital site value

10 February 2011
How telehealth technology can enhance the quality of national healthcare

10 February 2011
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals look to become global brand through merger

10-Feb-2011
PCT delivers just 1 per cent of screening results on time

10 February 2011
Trusts court GPs ahead of consortia engagement

10 February 2011
Your Humble Servant: health mogul

10 February 2011
Central Manchester University FT one of eight chosen maternity and children's acute in region

9-Feb-2011
Royal Liverpool increases cleaning and inspection of stairwells after patient falls and dies

9-Feb-2011
On-call doctor investigated after Calderstones patient suffers Christmas day cardiac arrest

9-Feb-2011
Liverpool Heart and Chest behind on PPCI target

9-Feb-2011
Aintree Hospitals Foundation Trust to lose some gynaecology activity under PCT proposal

9-Feb-2011
Plymouth Hospitals Trust reports health infection rates

9-Feb-2011
East Sussex Hospitals starts to ‘turn corner’ on £6m deficit

9-Feb-2011
East Sussex Hospitals has no ‘further flexibility’ on MRSA

9-Feb-2011
Bassetlaw Hospital children services unsustainable

9-Feb-2011
Overperformance fuels 'strong' surplus at Birmingham Children's Hospital Foundation Trust

9-Feb-2011
East Sussex Hospitals pilots maternity phone triage service

9-Feb-2011
Trafford scrambles for extra savings to avert deficit

9-Feb-2011
Oxfordshire Learning Disability Trust behind on surplus plans

9-Feb-2011
Pennine Acute will need to cut costs by £22.5m to manage tariff cut

9-Feb-2011
Red risk over staff shortages at Northampton General

9-Feb-2011
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust has better than expected surplus

9-Feb-2011
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust get go-ahead for new hospital

9-Feb-2011
Audit Commission highlights weaknesses at Great Western Ambulance Service

9-Feb-2011
NHS Walsall's providers over-performing by £6m

9-Feb-2011
Poole FT facing deficit of £4.7m

9-Feb-2011
Croydon Health Services Trust making progress on agency spend

9-Feb-2011
NHS Plymouth confident of surplus despite commissioning overspend of £11.5m

9-Feb-2011
Optimising patient flow in A&E

9-Feb-2011
Lengths of stay at George Eliot highest since 2005-6

8-Feb-2011
Treatment bans worsen George Eliot deficit

8-Feb-2011
NHS Kensington & Chelsea miss breast screening targets two months in a row

8-Feb-2011
NHS Devon moves ahead with plans for provider arm

8-Feb-2011
£20m research centre for University Hospitals Birmingham

8-Feb-2011
NHS Camden predicting 41 per cent overspend with acute provider

8-Feb-2011
Plymouth Hospitals Trust predicts £4.6m deficit

8-Feb-2011
Burton Hospitals staff vote on bank holiday

8-Feb-2011
Lancashire FT feels swine flu pressure

8-Feb-2011
More than 20 leave Devon Partnership Trust under MARS

8-Feb-2011
Royal Cornwall falling behind on surplus plans

8-Feb-2011
DH: 20 trusts' futures in doubt

8-Feb-2011
Salisbury FT offers services for new trauma centre

8-Feb-2011
East Lancashire underperforming on stroke care indicators

8-Feb-2011
Salisbury FT in overperformance dispute with PCTs

8-Feb-2011
Leicestershire Partnership Trust postpones FT bid

8-Feb-2011
Salford Royal scores highly in cancer patient experience survey

8-Feb-2011
Royal Bolton remains red rated for mortality, but shows improvement

8-Feb-2011
Northamptonshire Healthcare breaching falls CQUINs

8-Feb-2011
North Bristol NHS Trust pays back PCTs

8-Feb-2011
Only third of head and neck cancer patients treated within 62 days

8-Feb-2011
Northamptonshire Healthcare behind target on mandatory training

8-Feb-2011
Leicestershire Partnership chair to step down

8-Feb-2011
National cancer unit opens at Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

8-Feb-2011
North Cumbria trust nearly £8m in the red at end of November

8-Feb-2011
Only 1 per cent of smear test results delivered on time

8-Feb-2011
University Hospitals of Leicester hit with performance notice for A&E performance

8-Feb-2011
Rooftop prison protests affecting trust's value for money rating

8-Feb-2011
Interim chief exec made permanent at Hampshire Partnership FT

8-Feb-2011
Calls to reject health ombudsman reappointment

8-Feb-2011
'Unsatisfactory' doctor competency regulation criticised

8-Feb-2011
NHS reforms 'need patient voice'

8-Feb-2011
NHS Herefordshire reports "unacceptable" deterioration in stroke performance

7-Feb-2011
GPs appointed to clinical cabinet to find more savings at Oxleas Foundation Trust

7-Feb-2011
NHS Hampshire gather consortia around acute trusts

7-Feb-2011
East Cheshire NHS Trust faces "significant risks" to financial position

7-Feb-2011
Ipswich Hospital plans centre for coronary treatment

7-Feb-2011
Durham and Darlington FT reconfiguration approved

7-Feb-2011
GPs involved in Mid Yorks 2011-12 contract

7-Feb-2011
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells looks to Portugal for nurses

7-Feb-2011
Royal Surrey ‘mitigates’ against weather with block contract

7-Feb-2011
Royal Surrey considers ‘integrated’ pathology service with nearby FTs

7-Feb-2011
Ashford and St Peters considers ‘integrated’ pathology service with nearby FTs

7-Feb-2011
Discharge delays questioned after patient deaths

7-Feb-2011
Learning valuable lessons from clinical audits

7-Feb-2011
Leeds Hospitals looks for 'solid platform' for FT bid

4-Feb-2011
Barts to cut 250 nursing posts

4-Feb-2011
Over 1,000 patients miss waiting time targets at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust

3-Feb-2011
Consultant referrals create red risk at Telford and Wrekin

3-Feb-2011
QIPP slippage puts Hereford Hospitals behind plan by £2.3m

3-Feb-2011
Staff from North East London Foundation Trust support hospital trust struggling with winter pressures

3-Feb-2011
Hereford Hospitals to receive £2.8m of withheld SHA funds

3-Feb-2011
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT overperforming on PCT budget

3-Feb-2011
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Trust risks unpaid activity

3-Feb-2011
NHS Bristol explores possibility of research centre

3-Feb-2011
East Kent FT experiencing rise in mixed sex incidents

3-Feb-2011
Brighton and Sussex hospitals ups rating in gay friendly employer list

3-Feb-2011
Dartford acute trust consults on equality plan

3-Feb-2011
Royal Bournemouth ahead on cancer

3-Feb-2011
North Devon Healthcare boss to take direct action on hand hygiene

3-Feb-2011
Ambulances refitted to transport larger patients

3-Feb-2011
Successful healthcare mergers, like marriages, need a lot of hard work

3-Feb-2011
Hospital Landscape: a winning attitude to improved performance

3-Feb-2011
CQC fees hike 'disappoints' confederation

3 February 2011
Flory tells PCTs to give providers leeway over winter pressures

3 February 2011
Trust counts £8m cost of objections to PFI scheme

3 February 2011
Savings plan shortfall in West Herfordshire Trust

2-Feb-2011
Basildon and Thurrock Hospitals Trust overspending

2-Feb-2011
Outpatients causing overspend at West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust

2-Feb-2011
East and North Hertfordshire Trust overspending by nearly £6m

2-Feb-2011
Chief executive appointed at Airedale

2-Feb-2011
Procurement inefficiencies costing £500m, report finds

2-Feb-2011
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire in vascular shakeup

1-Feb-2011
Walsall Hospitals Trust predicting £2.2m loss under A&E cap

1-Feb-2011
Sussex trust's poor financial performance continues

1-Feb-2011
Prosecute staff for neglect, say experts

1-Feb-2011
Reforms will destroy the NHS, claims Unite

1-Feb-2011
RCS warns quality of care could decline

1-Feb-2011
Government confusion over midwife numbers boost

1-Feb-2011
Four steps to improving frontline patient care

1-Feb-2011
North Staffs acute trust fills two executive roles

31-Jan-2011
Patient choice proving costly for NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

31-Jan-2011
Poll reveals public mistrust of reforms

31-Jan-2011
Nigel Edwards calls for constructive dialogue on competition

31-Jan-2011
Reforms are evolution not revolution, insists Cameron

31-Jan-2011
North East ambulance service misses targets under winter pressure

31-Jan-2011
Setting a course for consortia: an HSJ and doctors.net.uk discussion

31-Jan-2011
South Tees FT admits C Difficile target concern

28-Jan-2011
NHS Hamphire's debt repayment reduced by SHA

28-Jan-2011
NHS Portsmouth opens new outpatient facility

28-Jan-2011
King's Fund challenges health reform claims

28-Jan-2011
Thousands of cancer patients 'denied radiotherapy'

28-Jan-2011
General paediatric surgery - getting the delivery right

28-Jan-2011
Decontamination costs revealed to MPs

27-Jan-2011
CQC warns cuts could hit care standards

27-Jan-2011
Central grip tightens under 'independence' bill

27-Jan-2011
Trusts fail to tackle spiralling kidney care costs

27 January 2011
Labour attacks government on waiting times

26-Jan-2011
London hospital nurses weigh up industrial action

26-Jan-2011
Lansley: reforms will not see banker-style bonuses

26-Jan-2011
Watch: Andrew Lansley at HSJ's 'Delivering a New Approach to Public Health' conference

25-Jan-2011
An open letter from David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS

24-Jan-2011
1,600 job cuts criticised by Unison

24-Jan-2011
NHS writes off £35m owed by foreign patients

24-Jan-2011
The NHS Commissioning Board: biggest of the big spenders

24-Jan-2011
What happens if the health reforms work?

24-Jan-2011
Trust fined after asbestos breaches

21-Jan-2011
Hospitals face fines for mixed-sex wards

21-Jan-2011
40% of A&E patients do not need treatment

21-Jan-2011
Trusts battle for right to absorb smaller non-FTs

21-Jan-2011
Your essential guide to the Health Bill

21-Jan-2011
Nottingham Trust risks unfunded activity

20-Jan-2011
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust spending £3.6m more than plan on pay

20-Jan-2011
North Staffs sets revised date for becoming FT

20-Jan-2011
Newcastle FT board focuses on community services

20-Jan-2011
Bill could lead to 'dilution' of pensions benefits

20-Jan-2011
Health secretary to get powers to 'direct' Monitor

19-Jan-2011
New freedoms set out for NHS foundation trusts

19-Jan-2011
FT oversight to move to DH bank

19-Jan-2011
Do GPs have 'the balls' to decommission hospital care?

19-Jan-2011
'Time to scrap GP exception reporting'

19-Jan-2011
'We all know what’s wrong with the NHS'

19-Jan-2011
'Accountability in the NHS is a mess'

19-Jan-2011
Innovation Expo to profile QIPP programme

19-Jan-2011
Trust in breach of six CQC standards

19-Jan-2011
NHS market faces closer EU attention

19-Jan-2011
Cancer strategy relies more heavily on charities

19-Jan-2011
General hospital wards worse for heart patients

18-Jan-2011
Nicholson warns price competition could be 'extremely dangerous'

18-Jan-2011
Man held over hospital staff attack

17-Jan-2011
RCS warns on 'backdoor rationing' in NHS

17-Jan-2011
Warnings over NHS reforms

17-Jan-2011
'People expect public servants to preserve the public good'

17-Jan-2011
New Ashford and St Peter's FT reduces risk on VTE and safeguarding

13-Jan-2011
East Sussex acute trust racks up deficit

13-Jan-2011
Western Sussex acute trust slips on MRSA control

13-Jan-2011
High MRSA breach risk at Northumbria Trust

13-Jan-2011
Barnsley chief exec made permanent

13-Jan-2011
Bradford FT action plan on A&E waits

13-Jan-2011
‘System weaknesses’ expose trusts to staff and patient fraud

13 January 2011
'Is the long stay trim a haircut too far?'

13 January 2011
Media Watch: 'Patients should do more than lounge around in their pyjamas'

13 January 2011
Nick Bosanquet: Five steps to security

13 January 2011
Patient Safety Awards 2011: Prizes and plaudits for the protectors

13-Jan-2011
Rules change on EU treatments

13 January 2011
The HSJ and Capgemini Liberating Ideas Award Winners - Winning ideas are going places fast

13-Jan-2011
Mid Yorks trust £3.1m off plan

12-Jan-2011
New chief at Yorkshire ambulance service

12-Jan-2011
Community foundation trusts may buy premises with Treasury cash

12-Jan-2011
LINks effectiveness questioned

12-Jan-2011
The Healthcare Innovation EXPO

12-Jan-2011
Norovirus prevention advice issued

11-Jan-2011
Hospital governors 'must be fit for purpose'

10-Jan-2011
East Sussex chair to step down

10-Jan-2011
NHS Derby City plans 8 per cent reduction to provider contracts

7-Jan-2011
Operations cancelled to support flu treatment

7-Jan-2011
King’s Fund finds quality accounts tension

6 January 2011
Trusts warned not to neglect patient experience

6 January 2011
Wide variation found in outpatient attendance

6 January 2011
Review of care for limbless ex-servicemen

5-Jan-2011
SHA did not have 'hidden agenda'

4-Jan-2011
Monitor plans tougher standards for FTs

4-Jan-2011
Knighthood for Guys' chief executive

4-Jan-2011
Rush to market cancer test breakthrough

4-Jan-2011
NHS 'wastes billions' on procurement

4-Jan-2011
A model for the co-provision of home-based care

29-Dec-2010
Incentives for doctors: the big chill will hit medics too

28-Dec-2010
A survival plan for non-foundation trusts

27-Dec-2010
Flu death toll reaches 27

24-Dec-2010
Five trusts now predicting year-end deficits

23-Dec-2010
Number of A&E consultants must double to cope with new indicators

23-Dec-2010
CQC lifts conditions on Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT

22-Dec-2010
Rise in intensive care beds occupied by flu patients

22-Dec-2010
CQC lifts half of conditions at east London hospital trust

22-Dec-2010
Cancer survival in UK worse than other developed countries

22-Dec-2010
Dundee hospital told to improve hygiene

21-Dec-2010
Prostate cancer monitoring scanner developed

21-Dec-2010
Waiting times tracker: analysis of seasonal effects

20-Dec-2010
First NHS outcomes framework published

20-Dec-2010
Price competition could raise death rates, experts warn

17-Dec-2010
Emergency targets scrapped in favour of performance measures

17-Dec-2010
Hospital productivity has fallen over last decade

17-Dec-2010
Rise in cancer target breaches among foundation trusts, new Monitor report shows

16-Dec-2010
Trusts failing to review dementia readmissions

16-Dec-2010
Are NHS efficiency savings a dead dog?

17 December 2010
Danger consortia will overlook networked services

16-Dec-2010
Productivity gains elude NHS trusts

17 December 2010
More powers for health ombudsman and local health forums

15-Dec-2010
New Provider Development Authority to govern non-FTs

15-Dec-2010
NHS given another year to hit £20bn savings target

15-Dec-2010
Providers freed to set their own referral to treatment targets and set prices below tariff

15-Dec-2010
Tariff to be cut by 1.5 per cent

15-Dec-2010
Clinicians put forward ideas on where to save £20bn

15-Dec-2010
Basildon given all clear as safety concerns are raised

14-Dec-2010
Emergency tariff to cost trusts nearly £200m

13-Dec-2010
Delayed hospital patient discharges double

13-Dec-2010
All admitted patients to have blood clot test

10-Dec-2010
First single room-only hospital opens

10-Dec-2010
Weekend admission 'raises death risk'

10-Dec-2010
DH U-turns on cash cut to children's hospitals

10-Dec-2010
'Strained relationships' at trusts criticised

10-Dec-2010
Cally Bann

9 December 2010
CQC to scan Twitter for care complaints

9 December 2010
Financial checks on NHS providers eased

9 December 2010
How will the health reforms be judged?

9 December 2010
Merger plans announced as FT deadline looms

9 December 2010
MId Staffs inquiry told HSE was 'under-resourced'

9 December 2010
Report highlights productivity savings in mental health

9 December 2010
How to make the most of your estate

8-Dec-2010
75% of children with cancer 'must travel for care'

7-Dec-2010
NHS Direct norovirus calls hit 4,000 a week

7-Dec-2010
Bolton trust to change its name

6-Dec-2010
Drunk tanks proposed to take pressure off services

6-Dec-2010
Hospital trust announces merger proposals

6-Dec-2010
Coventry trust appoints chief exec

3-Dec-2010
Blood donors urged to make special effort

3-Dec-2010
Payment by Results - conference sessions

2-Dec-2010
'The new era will require major structural changes'

2-Dec-2010
Blackpool deficit hints at tough era for foundations

2 December 2010
Bruce Keogh and Ian Dalton on death rates

2 December 2010
How to improve operational effectiveness in hospitals

2-Dec-2010
NHS Partners in row over ‘cosy’ deal

2 December 2010
Treasury 'Icy cold wind' may end GP independence, says NHS medical director

1-Dec-2010
Ashford achieves foundation status, as Royal Free starts application

1-Dec-2010
Circle’s success at Hinchingbrooke is more likely to be cultural than commercial

1-Dec-2010
Extending choice to end of life care

1-Dec-2010
Maternity units may close, despite pre election pledges

30-Nov-2010
Latest Dr Foster guide reveals hospital trusts with high death rates

29-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs chief exec confirms departure next year

26-Nov-2010
FTs make pre-emptive defence against Hospital Guide findings

26-Nov-2010
Exclusive: Hinchingbrooke winner critiques NHS procurement

26-Nov-2010
Ali Parsa: the NHS must learn to put quality ahead of price

26-Nov-2010
Improving quality and productivity in the NHS

26-Nov-2010
Temperature linked to sharp rises in admissions

26-Nov-2010
Mark Britnell: quick fixes for making efficiency gains

25 November 2010
NHS Atlas of Variation highlights service value

25 November 2010
Open clinical data to public, urges Lansley adviser

25 November 2010
Pioneering 'NHS Atlas' reveals huge contrasts in care

25 November 2010
Smaller fines for mixed sex accommodation

25 November 2010
'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'

25 November 2010
UK heart surgery survival best in Europe

25-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs advised to shed some services

24-Nov-2010
'Huge concerns' remain over Mid Staffs care

24-Nov-2010
Don't lose sight of productivity during winter, warns Nicholson

24-Nov-2010
DH to appoint new Monitor chair

23-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs inquiry hears from Cure the NHS campaigner

23-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs doctors and nurses 'will not be named'

23-Nov-2010
How to reduce COPD admissions with personal care plans

22-Nov-2010
All NHS reconfigurations look set to progress despite moratorium

19-Nov-2010
Andrew Murrison on the military covenant

19-Nov-2010
Our lives are in the cancer detectives’ hands

19-Nov-2010
Boards urged to improve cost-saving measures

18 November 2010
Migration caps may jeopardise service quality and safety

18-Nov-2010
NHS cancer spending queried by National Audit Office

18 November 2010
Lancashire PCTs to review funding for 70 procedures

16-Nov-2010
North Tees staff offered voluntary redundancy

16-Nov-2010
Children's hospital told to improve cleanliness

16-Nov-2010
NHS Surrey stops funding for IVF and tattoo removal

15-Nov-2010
Report points to prison care lapses

15-Nov-2010
Quarter of cancers found during emergency care

15-Nov-2010
Let more people die at home, says end of life care report

15-Nov-2010
Search NHS Evidence from hsj.co.uk

12-Nov-2010
UK women 'more likely to die of cancer'

12-Nov-2010
NHS targets skew surgery management, doctors warn

12-Nov-2010
Former RSM president condemns NHS reforms as 'anathema'

12-Nov-2010
NHS Professionals reports first modest profits

12-Nov-2010
Former NHS chief attacks private health insurance 'lottery'

11-Nov-2010
£800m savings identified through better COPD care

11 November 2010
A guide to redesigning COPD care pathways

11 November 2010
An American Dream we should believe in

11 November 2010
Elderly miss out on post surgical care

11-Nov-2010
How to unlock savings by redesigning COPD care pathways

11 November 2010
Local NHS pay negotiations: beware raiders of the lost cause

11 November 2010
Mid Staffs inquiry told of 'culture of fear'

10-Nov-2010
£750m spent by NHS on locum doctors

10-Nov-2010
SHA failing on stroke care

9-Nov-2010
Ex-Mid Staffs chief executive 'may not appear'

9-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs inquiry 'will probe every nook and cranny'

8-Nov-2010
Protest delays Stafford Hospital public inquiry

8-Nov-2010
Government backtracks to hand maternity to GPs

8-Nov-2010
Stafford Hospital public inquiry to begin

8-Nov-2010
The eight ways to save cash and improve care

8-Nov-2010
Endoscope 'disinfection failure' linked to nine NDM cases in UK

5-Nov-2010
A&E closure plan accelerated by six months

5-Nov-2010
New Birmingham hospital clears further hurdle and gains name

5-Nov-2010
Report highlights out-of-date keyhole equipment

5-Nov-2010
Organ transplants hit record high

5-Nov-2010
Kent PCT to delay referrals in order to dodge overspend

4-Nov-2010
Achieving whole hospital change

4 November 2010
Any future for non-foundation trusts?

4 November 2010
Dr Foster sticks with alternative death rate

4 November 2010
Independent contractors and the NHS

4 November 2010
New hospital death rates to be published in April

4 November 2010
The new mortality indicator suffers from mixed messages

4 November 2010
The NHS needs to re-invent itself to cope with funding cuts

4 November 2010
Trust plans closure of seven wards

4 November 2010
Your Humble Servant: home front

4 November 2010
GP commissioner groups ‘will be size of PCTs’

3-Nov-2010
Children's hospitals face 'stealth cuts' - Healey

3-Nov-2010
Children's hospital ordered to improve cleanliness

2-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs compensation bill revealed

1-Nov-2010
CQC says improvements still needed at Mid Staffs

29-Oct-2010
Big Society: little guys vs big guns

28 October 2010
'Health outcome bond' pilot to attempt hospital admissions cut

28 October 2010
Hospital trusts hit by £90m fall in earnings

28 October 2010
More choice needed in end of life care, says King's fund report

28 October 2010
NHS Confederation and Slipman agree ‘way forward’

28 October 2010
NHS efficiency savings could get a rough ride

28 October 2010
NHS estate and hotel services heavily outsourced

28 October 2010
NHS referral management: how to get it right

28 October 2010
'No problems' at cardiac unit, inquest told

28 October 2010
Inquest into John Radcliffe baby death opens

27-Oct-2010
Hospital concerns top ministers' letters

27-Oct-2010
Midlands trusts plan joint pathology service

27-Oct-2010
Yorkshire PCT announces 'unpalatable' measures to tackle overspend

26-Oct-2010
Better NHS management 'leads to better outcomes'

26-Oct-2010
PCT halts funding for over 30 procedures to 'remain sustainable'

26-Oct-2010
Child alcohol admissions up by a third

25-Oct-2010
Assault prosecutions up five-fold since 2005

25-Oct-2010
Rise in annual new cancer cases

22-Oct-2010
Guide hopes to avoid death rate panic

21 October 2010
'La La is throwing his limited political capital into reshuffling bureaucracy'

21 October 2010
Single rooms no better say economists

21 October 2010
Trusts must offer choice of consultant led team from April

21 October 2010
Government drops one-on-one cancer nurse plan

20-Oct-2010
An action plan for busting NHS deficits

20-Oct-2010
MP calls for NAO investigation into 'misguided' halting of reconfiguration plans

19-Oct-2010
NHS London volunteers external oversight in 'Lansley tests' over reconfiguration plans

19-Oct-2010
Ward closed after C diff deaths

19-Oct-2010
London trusts top of patient complaints list

19-Oct-2010
NHS IT supplier agrees contract 'efficiencies'

18-Oct-2010
Maternity ward sealed off over skin infection

18-Oct-2010
Public finance adviser joins Mid Staffs inquiry

15-Oct-2010
Salisbury chief seconded to DH provider role

14-Oct-2010
‘Nearly £2bn could be saved’ in NHS property sell-offs

14 October 2010
Competition could change the face of healthcare

14 October 2010
DH turns a blind eye to working time rules

14 October 2010
NHS estate services costs vary widely

14 October 2010
Take the lead in preventing ill health

14 October 2010
Two ambulance trusts get all-clear from Lansley

14 October 2010
College to lobby for inclusion of secondary care in consortia

13-Oct-2010
Removing policy barriers to integrated healthcare

13-Oct-2010
Referral pathways

12-Oct-2010
Shadow health secretary wastes no time in attacking NHS cuts

12-Oct-2010
Caesarean rates 'vary widely' in UK

8-Oct-2010
Big income drop likely for children’s hospitals

7 October 2010
Mark Britnell: Have foundation trusts realised their potential?

7 October 2010
The right way to form GP consortia

7 October 2010
Thousands of hospital ward transfers are unnecessary

7 October 2010
Transforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms

7 October 2010
Key NHS providers face loans limits

6-Oct-2010
Thorny NHS reform issues unresolved

6-Oct-2010
Midwives warn increasing competition in NHS could destabilise services

5-Oct-2010
Lansley gives PCTs more cash but defends their abolition

5-Oct-2010
West Middlesex trust appoints chair

5-Oct-2010
A telemedicine solution to stroke care

5-Oct-2010
GP commissioners must not ignore specialist advice, surgeons warn

4-Oct-2010
Trusts should be paid to employ overseas doctors

4-Oct-2010
Hospital trust rejects Bible ban

4-Oct-2010
HSE issues ambulance trust warning

30 September 2010
Monitor warns FTs against ‘salami slice’ cost shaving

30 September 2010
'Patient safety demands adequate resources, effectively applied'

30 September 2010
The NHS has too many hospitals - something’s got to give

30 September 2010
Trusts to be tested on dementia care standards

29-Sep-2010
Trust apologises after delivery errors leave baby brain damaged

29-Sep-2010
1,400 NHS posts face axe

28-Sep-2010
Bariatric surgery on the rise in Scotland

27-Sep-2010
Welsh hospitals to allow mobile use

27-Sep-2010
Call to simplify energy-saving scheme

24-Sep-2010
Call to reform surgical profession

24-Sep-2010
CQC gives nearly-all-clear to troubled foundation trust

24-Sep-2010
BMA warning over access to patients' records

23-Sep-2010
Child care branded ‘mediocre’

23 September 2010
DH keeping a close eye on local NHS reconfiguration plans

23 September 2010
Foundation trusts seek to halt automatic pay rises

23 September 2010
'I am now chairing the Andrew Lansley Action Squad'

23 September 2010
Make your big idea shine

23 September 2010
Midwife workloads too high to be safe

23 September 2010
Nursing regulator to explore extension of powers

23 September 2010
Quality payment targets centred on patient safety

23 September 2010
Surgery fails thousands of patients

23 September 2010
'Time to consider the benefits and flaws of the single minded pursuit of targets'

23 September 2010
NHS London revives Queen Mary's Sidcup closure plans amid patient safety concerns

22-Sep-2010
Former BMA chair acted like 'caricature of surgical arrogance'

22-Sep-2010
FTs call for lighter control

22-Sep-2010
Trust breached data laws over lost USB

21-Sep-2010
Call for ban on cheap alcohol

21-Sep-2010
Former BMA chairman to face disciplinary panel

20-Sep-2010
Scottish life expectancy improving

17-Sep-2010
HIV cases predicted to rise

17-Sep-2010
Royal London drops 'homeopathy' from its title

17-Sep-2010
Joint replacement patients in poorest ever health

16-Sep-2010
Cosmetic surgery providers breach CQC rules

16 September 2010
IT shake-up leaves key components unaltered

16 September 2010
Nicholson steps up reform with radical savings move

15-Sep-2010
Call for 'diagnostic cockpit' to reduce drug errors

13-Sep-2010
Bone fracture hospital admission data revealed

10-Sep-2010
Directorate management teams

9-Sep-2010
Chris J Hawkey: A new opening for transparency

9 September 2010
Emergency admissions bypassing GP referrals

9 September 2010
No accord on mortality measures

9 September 2010
Weight loss surgery could save NHS £56m a year

8-Sep-2010
Call to extend radiotherapy care

7-Sep-2010
Trusts 'not following carbon reduction scheme'

7-Sep-2010
Superbug risk from hospital sinks

3-Sep-2010
Minimum alcohol price 'will save £700m'

3-Sep-2010
'A couple of unproductive consultants can turn a viable specialty into a loss maker'

2 September 2010
Budget risk to future MRSA success

2 September 2010
DH puts Monitor chief job on ice

2 September 2010
Foundation trust chief calls for state support

2 September 2010
Hospital trusts gain under new payment by results tariff

2 September 2010
Incentives required to bring about NHS collaboration

2 September 2010
'Primary care trusts? Send in the marines'

2 September 2010
Nicola Sturgeon hails 'best ever' waiting times

1-Sep-2010
Alcohol-related hospital admissions soar

1-Sep-2010
Ex Cornwall chief exec wins £1.2m compensation

1-Sep-2010
Cardiac care pathway: all hands to the pump

1-Sep-2010
Hundreds of patients face hip replacement recall

31-Aug-2010
Elderly 'being left to go hungry on wards'

31-Aug-2010
Infant deaths prompt deep clean at UCH

31-Aug-2010
Patient data management system

30-Aug-2010
Stroke indicators

27-Aug-2010
Trust rapped over patient records found at bus stop

27-Aug-2010
Bid to avert health driver strikes

26-Aug-2010
Clinical coding improving, says Audit Commission

26 August 2010
CQC tells United Lincs to improve on dignity and workforce support

26 August 2010
FT proposals: 'difficult questions' remain

26 August 2010
Monitor set local authority concerns aside

26 August 2010
'Remove the barriers to healthcare innovation'

26 August 2010
Stop lethal blood clots: get good ideas into circulation

26 August 2010
Trust not meeting Royal College of Surgeons' decontamination policy

26 August 2010
Using patient opinion to inform service design

26 August 2010
NHS complaints reach record high

25-Aug-2010
Hospital ward closed after fatal streptococcus outbreak

24-Aug-2010
Hospital Guide consultation - share your views

23-Aug-2010
Labour accuses SNP of hypocrisy over bed cuts

23-Aug-2010
Operations suspended after flesh contamination

23-Aug-2010
Venous thromboembolism

23-Aug-2010
Care trust plus chief executive quits for hospital

19-Aug-2010
Kidney transplants research could slash waiting lists

19-Aug-2010
Kidney transplants from cardiac deaths could reduce waiting lists

19-Aug-2010
Financial fears as axe falls on Audit Commission

19 August 2010
Mixed sex wards and ennui

19 August 2010
NHS Confed is still ‘looking out’ for all its members

19 August 2010
'We all know NHS change will keep coming - the trick is to adapt'

19 August 2010
Book Review: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic

18-Aug-2010
Dr Foster consults on the Good Hospital guide

18-Aug-2010
FTs favour male nurse directors

18-Aug-2010
Help shape the 2010 Hospital Guide

18-Aug-2010
Hospital criticised over maternity unit standards

17-Aug-2010
Hospitals to face mixed-sex ward fines

17-Aug-2010
AHRQ patient safety indicator composite

16-Aug-2010
Urology basket

16-Aug-2010
Mortality in conditions amenable to healthcare

16-Aug-2010
Paediatric basket

16-Aug-2010
Pulmonary embolism

16-Aug-2010
Failure to rescue

16-Aug-2010
Mixed-sex wards to be eliminated this year

16-Aug-2010
Hospitals may miss targets as 'financial risk' increases

12-Aug-2010
UK leading in fight against breast cancer

12-Aug-2010
A rapid return to high quality NHS reporting

12-Aug-2010
GP referral management schemes fail to deliver

12 August 2010
'La la Lansley has abolished the people who monitor us'

12 August 2010
Trauma care ‘needs networks at regional level’

12 August 2010
York Hospitals FT freezes manager recruitment

12 August 2010
Cleaning cut claims rejected

11-Aug-2010
Pessimistic foundation trusts set tough savings target

11-Aug-2010
'Postcode lottery in end of life care provision'

11-Aug-2010
Two bidders left in NHS hospital franchise race

11-Aug-2010
C diff deaths falling

10-Aug-2010
How to manage GP referrals

9-Aug-2010
The government’s plan for the NHS: the health white paper analysed

6-Aug-2010
Break the back of NHS waiting lists

5-Aug-2010
A nervous kind of NHS reorganisation

5 August 2010
Cally Bann: the white paper

5 August 2010
Free NHS Choices to meet public need

5 August 2010
Michael White: the working time directive

5 August 2010
NHS brand undermined by online confusion

5 August 2010
NHS service reconfigurations 'surge' expected

5 August 2010
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trusts paediatric cardiac surgery unit to remain closed

5 August 2010
Preventing stroke: primary force

5 August 2010
Under the radar guidance ends hospital closure moratorium

5 August 2010
Expert patients: everyone can benefit

4-Aug-2010
National Childbirth Trust wants maternity providers to go it alone

4-Aug-2010
NHS 'silences' 170 whistleblowers

3-Aug-2010
DH criticises 'clearly unsatisfactory' European working time directive

2-Aug-2010
Embracing collaborative working in the NHS

30-Jul-2010
SHA report calls for unit to remain closed after paediatric deaths

29-Jul-2010
Monitor says FT in 'significant breach' of its authorisation

29-Jul-2010
Commissioners must 'balance evidence and views' on reconfiguration

29-Jul-2010
Reconfiguration moratorium lifted in three months

29-Jul-2010
Foundation trust proposals raise tough borrowing question

29 July 2010
Improvement work must continue, NHS Institute chief warns

29 July 2010
Legal concern over private patient income cap

29 July 2010
Mark Goldman on fatal mistakes in the NHS

29 July 2010
Missing detail renders NHS quality accounts ‘meaningless’

29 July 2010
The new healthcare revolution

29 July 2010
Trusts dodge scrutiny by omitting vital quality measures

29 July 2010
Trusts repond to weak quality account charge

29 July 2010
Organ transfer taskforce pays trusts £1.8m

28-Jul-2010
CQC lifts restrictions on Mid Staffs

27-Jul-2010
White paper: regulation reform to create 'level playing field'

26-Jul-2010
NHS losing millions in pharma cost-sharing schemes

26-Jul-2010
Pharma boss takes over foundation trust

26-Jul-2010
Ambulance bosses reject 'lazy' staff claims

26-Jul-2010
A&E attendances

25-Jul-2010
Patient involvement lacking in South West cancer service reconfiguration

22-Jul-2010
Medicine waste

22-Jul-2010
‘Heroic’ NHS managers get their due from friend and foe

22 July 2010
Answering the NHS's £14bn productivity question

22 July 2010
Concerns over standard of specialist care

22 July 2010
Controversial urgent care unit will not revert to full A&E status

22 July 2010
King's Fund seeks clarity on NHS cost pressures

22 July 2010
NHS IT programme faces further cost cutting

22 July 2010
Quality vascular surgery ‘requires centralisation’

22 July 2010
Your Humble Servant: Going La La

22 July 2010
Access to kidney transplants 'varies widely across UK'

21-Jul-2010
East of England opens up hospital quality figures

21-Jul-2010
Information revolution 'could confuse public'

21-Jul-2010
Centralising stroke services improves care, says NHS London

20-Jul-2010
East Sussex chief exec made permanent

20-Jul-2010
Government selects CQC chair

20-Jul-2010
New ambulance transfer service

20-Jul-2010
Health outcomes consultation launched

19-Jul-2010
MP calls CQC in over South London Healthcare Trust

19-Jul-2010
Runaway bull captured in hospital grounds

19-Jul-2010
Tackling problem drinking

19-Jul-2010
Staffing problems may increase infant death rate

16-Jul-2010
NHS complaints volume rises

16-Jul-2010
COPD services

16-Jul-2010
Decision on cancer target 'will be down to NHS commissioning board'

15-Jul-2010
Audit Commission extends payment by results checks

15 July 2010
Departing NHS London chair hits out at Lansley

15 July 2010
Emergency care support teams called to help one in five trusts

15 July 2010
GPs and QIPP: is there a doctor on board?

15 July 2010
Paediatric surgeons ‘need networks’

15 July 2010
Tougher tack on increasing foundation trusts

14-Jul-2010
CQC chief welcomes 'formalisation' of relationship with Monitor

14-Jul-2010
Consultants criticise white paper's lack of acute focus

14-Jul-2010
GPs refuse to be Lansley's 'whipping boys'

14-Jul-2010
CQUIN in stroke units

14-Jul-2010
Managers have been unfairly served by the rushed reforms

13-Jul-2010
Hospital told to overhaul cleaning team

13-Jul-2010
Top mark for maternity service

13-Jul-2010
Outcome goals to replace performance framework

12-Jul-2010
Monitor and CQC to run 'joint licence' from April 2012

12-Jul-2010
White paper: DH unit will force foundation trust move

12-Jul-2010
Cancer survival rates improve

12-Jul-2010
Report critical of infant death responses

12-Jul-2010
Virtual innovations in health and social care

12-Jul-2010
UNISON announces HCAs conference

9-Jul-2010
MPs given access to NHS comments and complaints

8-Jul-2010
Cost of axing hospital redesigns must be counted

8 July 2010
Government tells CQC to drop annual health check reviews

8 July 2010
Imperial recruits PCT chief in integrated care drive

8 July 2010
Lansley outlines plans for ‘health outcome’ measures

8 July 2010
Should the irresponsible have a right to NHS care?

8 July 2010
South Essex FT named top healthcare employer

8 July 2010
Trusts admit emergency patients at last minute

8 July 2010
UCLH says acute care centralisation is better

8 July 2010
Trusts 'slash and burn' frontline jobs

7-Jul-2010
Health inequalities spearheads wavered on targets

7-Jul-2010
Swine flu review highlights messy GP negotiations

7-Jul-2010
How to deliver care closer to home

7-Jul-2010
Zero tolerance needed for ambulance staff assaults

6-Jul-2010
Neonatal units 'under-staffed'

6-Jul-2010
Welsh NHS must find £2bn in savings

5-Jul-2010
Avoidable overnight stays cost NHS £330m a year

5-Jul-2010
Call for organ donation discussions

5-Jul-2010
How to achieve value for money priorities

5-Jul-2010
Life expectancy gap widens across England

2-Jul-2010
Review finds £1.2bn swine flu effort 'proportionate'

1-Jul-2010
Has Lansley called time on falling NHS waiting lists?

1-Jul-2010
Clarity is the key to tackling excess admissions

1 July 2010
European working time directive

Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
Heart of England has new chief

1 July 2010
Hospitals face shortfalls as emergency demand spirals

1 July 2010
Lost theatre time opportunity

1 July 2010
Minister visits hospital at centre of A&E reconfiguration row

1 July 2010
Monitor issues warning on declining foundation profits

1-Jul-2010
New GP role may create deficit

1 July 2010
NHS leaders ‘must support’ clinical practice change

1 July 2010
Stephen Eames on GPs in the hotseat

1 July 2010
Trust may take PFI option for 'axed' hospital

1-Jul-2010
Your Humble Servant: Handy Andy

1 July 2010
Do not cut specialist roles, warns SHA chief

30-Jun-2010
Hospital phone costs to be reviewed

30-Jun-2010
Sugar banned from hospital vending machines

29-Jun-2010
Foreign doctors 'must speak good English'

29-Jun-2010
Co-operation not competition best for NHS, say experts

28-Jun-2010
Innovation: an uninterrupted flow of ideas

28-Jun-2010
FT pioneers lifestyle intervention for acute patients

26-Jun-2010
Third of operating time lost to late starts and early finishes

25-Jun-2010
Stomach cancer survival rate improves

25-Jun-2010
C diff target increased to 50% in Scotland

25-Jun-2010
Scrapping NHS targets is 'risky'

25-Jun-2010
Productivity gains unlikely without clinician 'buy in' and better information

24-Jun-2010
Tell boards 'patient stories' to keep safety on agenda

24-Jun-2010
Quality advisers say all NHS information should go online

24-Jun-2010
Cally Bann: 'Remember it’s not over until the fat vuvuzela’s blown'

24 June 2010
PCT to downgrade A&E despite Lansley policy

24 June 2010
Pressure eases on 18-weeks referral

24 June 2010
The patient will see you now: rebalancing relationships in the NHS

24 June 2010
Why the NHS should devote 5 per cent of its budget to public health

24 June 2010
Total Place could improve health and social care integration - Confed

23-Jun-2010
Trusts should be ‘thinking big’ in their savings plans

23-Jun-2010
Flood hit Cumbrian town seeks new community hospital

23-Jun-2010
Changes at trust after patient records lost

22-Jun-2010
Patient safety programme hailed

22-Jun-2010
Lansley halts maternity unit closure

21-Jun-2010
Consultant loses £1m Barts damages claim

18-Jun-2010
Robot hospital workers testing under way

18-Jun-2010
SHA's role in chief executive sacking under review

17-Jun-2010
Tees hospital project axed in government spending review

17-Jun-2010
Outpatient experience

17-Jun-2010
Early breast cancer diagnosis could save 1,000 lives

17-Jun-2010
Clinical audits ordered to reveal provider level data

17 June 2010
'Don't doubt the government’s commitment to radical NHS reform'

17 June 2010
Media Watch: variations in NHS performance in the news

17 June 2010
NHS facing brain drain as leaders look for exit

17 June 2010
Operating framework to pave way for abolition of targets

17 June 2010
UK lagging on health efficiency efforts

17 June 2010
PFI hospitals 'may have to cut services'

16-Jun-2010
Malcolm Stamp quits Coventry trust

16-Jun-2010
MSPs back Parkinson's care changes

16-Jun-2010
Getting to know your MP

15-Jun-2010
Individual funding requests: from counting beans to patients

15-Jun-2010
Revised operating framework to pave way for abolition of waiting targets

11-Jun-2010
PCTs, councils and firms 'will commission for GPs'

10-Jun-2010
Former manager jailed for funding private stud farm with NHS money

10-Jun-2010
A&E waiting time targets face axe

10-Jun-2010
HSJ survey: Will you still be in your job in two years' time?

10-Jun-2010
BMA consultants committee chairman over-ruled on revalidation plans

10 June 2010
Data security fears hold up trusts' IT upgrades

10 June 2010
Doctor numbers: all trained up, nowhere to go?

10 June 2010
First ISTCs lose activity guarantees

10 June 2010
HSJ Awards 2010: Acute and Primary Care Innovation

10 June 2010
NHS drugs accidents highlighted

10 June 2010
Predictions on the new government's next moves

10 June 2010
Risk linked to surgery volume

10 June 2010
Trusts warned over instrument checks

10 June 2010
Your Humble Servant: Coabolition

10 June 2010
Government announces full Mid Staffs inquiry and whistleblower move

9-Jun-2010
Hospital parking too expensive, says report

9-Jun-2010
GOSH chief exec has 'support' of board following resignation calls

9-Jun-2010
Lansley: readmissions move is to drive integration

8-Jun-2010
Basildon handed fine over death of disabled patient

8-Jun-2010
Hospitals to face financial penalties for readmitting patients

8-Jun-2010
Trusts to report weekly on infection

7-Jun-2010
Great Ormond Street chief faces calls to quit

7-Jun-2010
Scottish NHS 'to pay £6.7bn in PFI fees'

7-Jun-2010
ASBO issued to patient who faked illness

4-Jun-2010
Cally Bann: Volunteers and Friends

3 June 2010
Calmer chameleon: the new face of Monitor

3 June 2010
Choice more important to patients than doctors

3 June 2010
Huge A&E attendance gaps revealed

3 June 2010
John Deffenbaugh: let us exploit our canny GPs

3 June 2010
NHS reputation is on a par with Iceland chain

3 June 2010
Preventing stroke: action or crisis

3 June 2010
Poor DVT policies 'putting lives at risk'

2-Jun-2010
C diff deaths at Salford Royal

2-Jun-2010
‘Patient safety must survive quango cull’

2-Jun-2010
Monitor chair wants FTs off public balance sheet

2-Jun-2010
Implementing the Safer Childbirth standards

2-Jun-2010
Lorenzo goes live at Morecambe Bay

1-Jun-2010
Scottish patients to be assessed by nurses to increase productivity

1-Jun-2010
Public engagement: how foundation trusts fish for members

31-May-2010
Patients 'endangered by shift work'

28-May-2010
Ruth Carnall: I'm not resigning

27-May-2010
Confed ex-chair moved to safeguard money

27 May 2010
CQC loses top directors at time of uncertainty

27 May 2010
Imperial College Healthcare chief backs GP integration

27 May 2010
John McGowan on service-user involvement

27 May 2010
Long term condition services inefficient due to poor design

27 May 2010
NHS service change plans will face stricter controls

27 May 2010
NHS should focus on outcomes, not targets - Lansley

27 May 2010
Paul Corrigan on the new NHS value for money

27 May 2010
Role of patient data questioned following inpatient survey

27 May 2010
Will NHS building plans stay on the drawing board?

27 May 2010
Your Humble Servant: NHS regime change

27 May 2010
Portsmouth City PCT faces external investigation

26-May-2010
Social care commission launched by Queen's Speech

25-May-2010
Hospital trust pays out over age discrimination

25-May-2010
Health boards report increase in assaults

25-May-2010
How to use predictive risk modelling in healthcare

25-May-2010
Trust to be sentenced over disabled man's death

24-May-2010
Patient safety: falls prevention

24-May-2010
Communication criticised after patient death

21-May-2010
Lansley: NHS must review reconfiguration plans

21-May-2010
NHS targets may be scrapped within weeks

20-May-2010
Cally Bann: it's going to be crap and we're all in it together

20 May 2010
Chief resigns after CQC fears

20 May 2010
Midlands trust explores John Lewis staff model

20 May 2010
NHS management consultancy bill defended

20 May 2010
PCT tells patients the cost of their care and services

20 May 2010
UCLH plan to rescue Barts from PFI crisis

20 May 2010
Lansley confirms London reconfiguration halted

19-May-2010
Scotland hits record cancer referral rate

19-May-2010
Lansley calls a halt to Darzi in London

19-May-2010
£100,000 fine over hospital death

18-May-2010
New drug approval guidance issued

18-May-2010
'Train healthcare staff to fight HIV discrimination'

18-May-2010
How to improve end of life care

18-May-2010
Ankle fracture management

17-May-2010
Patient safety: the human factors

17-May-2010
Are foundation trusts underinsured?

14-May-2010
Scotland evaluates Releasing Time To Care

13-May-2010
BMA calls for more protection against doctor victimisation

13-May-2010
Lansley promises real terms NHS budget increases and greater say for clinicians over reconfiguration

13-May-2010
Liverpool Foundation Trust faces 200 damages claims

13 May 2010
Manager suspended on full pay for five years

13 May 2010
NHS Evidence round table: stick to the facts

13 May 2010
Richard Barker and Steve Smith: health and wealth are partners

13 May 2010
Stephen Eames on the NHS leadership race

13 May 2010
Trusts must improve treatment of dead people

12-May-2010
Controversial London reform left on knife-edge

12-May-2010
Foundation reform would need early push from government

12-May-2010
Ambulance service apologises for Hitler survey

11-May-2010
NHS launch trauma forum consultation

11-May-2010
Warning issued over harmful breathing machines

10-May-2010
Melanoma diagnosis

10-May-2010
The truth about NHS pay: PM’s pay is not the prime number

10-May-2010
WHO surgical safety checklist: a simple list gives a sure touch

10-May-2010
Monitor to authorise another FT

7-May-2010
Hospital campaign MPs retain seats by small margin

7-May-2010
Election 2010: how to survive the calm after the storm

7-May-2010
Patient groups call for urgent government action

7-May-2010
Kramer loses seat despite hospital campaign

7-May-2010
Warwickshire result casts doubt on NHS reconfiguration proposals

7-May-2010
MP who branded hospital downgrade 'barking mad' returned

7-May-2010
Labour keeps seat where they accused Conservatives of 'scare' tactics on hospital

7-May-2010
PFI revelation fails to tip balance to Lib Dems in North East battleground seat

7-May-2010
Burnley A&E campaigner loses seat

7-May-2010
Shadow health minister pledging fresh look at hospital configuration elected

7-May-2010
Tories take seat facing maternity unit closure

7-May-2010
Lib Dems take target seat where Clegg promised a re-opened A&E

7-May-2010
General hospital at heart of three-way battle in Watford

7-May-2010
MPs hold on in Whittington row seats

7-May-2010
Campaigning doctor loses seat

7-May-2010
Labour cling onto Tooting after trust chair criticises Tory candidate

7-May-2010
Carbon reduction

6-May-2010
CQC tries to dispel 'live ratings' fears

6 May 2010
Jeremy Taylor on involving patients in hospital closures

6 May 2010
Mark Goldman on NHS trust takeovers

6 May 2010
Your Humble Servant: electioneering

6 May 2010
Election 2010: Halting hospital closures top priority for would-be MPs

5-May-2010
Royal College of Midwives warns against NHS cuts

5-May-2010
Patient groups wary of ‘fast track’ NHS reconfigurations

5-May-2010
How NHS managers can build relationships with MPs

5-May-2010
Organ donation

4-May-2010
Tories accuse Labour over mixed sex wards

4-May-2010
Exposed: the truth about NHS pay

3-May-2010
Adult spine services

30-Apr-2010
NHS hospital closures 'may improve patient care'

30-Apr-2010
Data leaks most serious in NHS

29-Apr-2010
Ambulance trusts shun urgent care centres

29 April 2010
Clinical dashboards

29-Apr-2010
Judith Smith: commissioning needs to be reborn, not killed off

29 April 2010
Monitor to look harder for FTs in financial trouble

29 April 2010
National GP referral guidelines are needed to reduce inequalities

29 April 2010
NHS patients in richer areas get operations earlier

29 April 2010
NHS trust pioneers land purchase

29 April 2010
Pay and stress put medics off chief exec role

29 April 2010
A&E departments have fewer than half the consultants they need

28-Apr-2010
Swine flu bill less than feared

28-Apr-2010
Call for hospitals to report knife wounds

27-Apr-2010
Cardiac surgery reconfiguration plans get charity backing

27-Apr-2010
Patient safety: minimum staff to patient ratios cut death rates

27-Apr-2010
Foundation trusts 'failing to listen to staff'

27-Apr-2010
Labour plans would cut thousands of jobs, Tories say

26-Apr-2010
Call to merge children's cardiac units

26-Apr-2010
Experts issue cancer care election challenge

26-Apr-2010
Sustainability: how green are your care pathways?

26-Apr-2010
Tories call for locally sourced NHS hospital food

23-Apr-2010
Alan Maynard: axe must swing on NHS jobs and pay

22 April 2010
Asthma and Parkinson's losers in policy battle

22 April 2010
Bart's finance director resigns

22 April 2010
Cally Bann: NHS manager bashing

22 April 2010
Election 2010: fight for marginal puts hospitals in the hot seat

22 April 2010
Foundation trust applications run into the ground

22 April 2010
Lincolnshire chief

22 April 2010
Mark Britnell on keeping the wolf from the NHS door

22 April 2010
Media Watch: volcanic ash and manifesto launches

22 April 2010
New doubt about mortality ratios

22 April 2010
Volcanic ash cloud affects cancer drug supplies

22 April 2010
Trusts must beat scepticism on quality accounts - King's Fund

21-Apr-2010
Junior doctors caring for up to 400 patients a night

21-Apr-2010
Violent attack admissions fall

21-Apr-2010
Hospitals warned to dispose of waste properly

20-Apr-2010
Give cash for organ donations, says think-tank

20-Apr-2010
Cancer survival rates improve

19-Apr-2010
NHS needs 'stroke champions' to improve services

19-Apr-2010
Hospitals hit with surge in norovirus closures

19-Apr-2010
Cancelled NHS operations reach new high

16-Apr-2010
Leaders clash over healthcare at general election debate

16-Apr-2010
Welsh Labour pledge key worker for every cancer patient

16-Apr-2010
CQC powers were weakened

15 April 2010
Dearth of NHS performance data threatens quality improvement

15 April 2010
Hospital closures: the taboo has been broken

15 April 2010
Noel Plumridge on the NHS budget

15 April 2010
Paul Corrigan and Bill Moyes on foundation trust autonomy

15 April 2010
VTE prevention help needed

15 April 2010
West Midlands fares worst on patient dignity target

15 April 2010
What Royal Surrey Foundation Trust sold

14-Apr-2010
FT admits selling low-stock drugs

14-Apr-2010
Labour and Tories set out health plans to woo electorate

14-Apr-2010
Conservatives launch election manifesto

13-Apr-2010
Labour pledges personalised care revolution

13-Apr-2010
Tories say Brown abused NHS hospital for political gain

12-Apr-2010
Andy Burnham apologises over organ removal

12-Apr-2010
Labour launches election manifesto

12-Apr-2010
King's Fund: NHS needs rapid change to meet challenges

12-Apr-2010
Andy Burnham defends hospital closures

8-Apr-2010
CQC: half of trusts registered with conditions unaware of shortcomings

8 April 2010
GP funding formula favours doctors in richest areas

8 April 2010
Hospital merger benefits questioned

8 April 2010
Monitor increases FTs' efficiency target

8 April 2010
NHS IT programme supplier misses major deadline

8 April 2010
Norman Warner: face up to NHS efficiencies

8 April 2010
Royal Free closes A&E after power failure

6-Apr-2010
Film documents Anna Donald's battle with cancer

6-Apr-2010
King's Fund accuses Tories over cancer drug promise

6-Apr-2010
Treatment checklists cut deaths by 15pc

6-Apr-2010
NHS sustainability: how to achieve long term efficiencies

6-Apr-2010
Ken Jarrold on admitting to the Mid Staffs mistakes

5-Apr-2010
Peer leadership across health and local government

5-Apr-2010
Mixed-sex wards scrapped by most trusts

1-Apr-2010
DH refuses key deal on national IT programme

1-Apr-2010
Cally Bann: the election

1-Apr-2010
FTs offered cash to take control of failing trusts

1-Apr-2010
NHS boards failing to engage on clinical quality audits

1-Apr-2010
NHS finance directors feel a distinct nip in the air

1-Apr-2010
High turnover in senior roles 'down to weak candidates'

31-Mar-2010
NPSA urges monthly patient safety reporting from trusts

31-Mar-2010
David Kerr: health policy just got personal

31 March 2010
£4m telecare funding announced

30-Mar-2010
Trust accused of 'ridiculing' nurse's religion

30-Mar-2010
Mid Staffs board wants to be stripped of FT status

30-Mar-2010
Better procurement could save NHS Scotland millions

29-Mar-2010
Cost of weekend A&E police cover revealed

29-Mar-2010
Three shortlisted in race to run Hinchingbrooke

26-Mar-2010
NHS elderly care review launched

26-Mar-2010
Call to investigate excessive death rates

26-Mar-2010
DH explains QIPP plans to 340,000 clinicians

25-Mar-2010
A&E alternatives ‘confuse’ the public

25 March 2010
Andy McKeon: why money could not unravel the NHS red tape

25 March 2010
Chris Ham on urgency for healthcare innovation

25 March 2010
David Nicholson on NHS incentives and ideology

25 March 2010
How Labour saved the NHS from the brink

25 March 2010
Reactor repairs hold up diagnostic test supplies

25 March 2010
NHS mergers: master the art of joined up thinking

24-Mar-2010
NHS public engagement: showcase services with all the fun of the fair

24-Mar-2010
Better alcohol services could save hospitals £393m

24-Mar-2010
New £1.5m NHS uniforms 'cause rashes'

24-Mar-2010
Burnham, Lamb and Lansley clash in health debate

24-Mar-2010
Judgement reserved in Rose Gibb appeal case

18-Mar-2010
Norfolk records major drop in bed blocking

18-Mar-2010
DH ignores own advice on digital engagement

18 March 2010
Heed Liam Donaldson’s frosty warning on winter pressures

18 March 2010
NHS is yet to capture the wealth of the net

18 March 2010
Questions over national cold weather plan

18 March 2010
Roger Taylor on the NHS safety debate

18 March 2010
Your Humble Servant: lights, camera, casualty

18 March 2010
Close hospital beds to save money, says report

17-Mar-2010
Andrew Haldenby on hospital closures and competition

17-Mar-2010
Bill Moyes teams with Paul Corrigan in policy talks

17-Mar-2010
Call to close beds

17-Mar-2010
Patient groups back closure of hospitals

17-Mar-2010
Sussex chief to step down without notice

17-Mar-2010
Assault reporting scheme rolled out

16-Mar-2010
Rape victims 'need more NHS support'

16-Mar-2010
CMO's report: national plan needed to cut winter death toll

15-Mar-2010
Urgent and Emergency Care

15-Mar-2010
Urgent and Emergency Care - conference sessions

15-Mar-2010
Poor hospital communication criticised in coroner's report

15-Mar-2010
'Major changes' after avoidable hospital deaths

15-Mar-2010
£21bn spent on health inequalities has had little impact

11 March 2010
A&E wait is not being gamed, new data suggests

11 March 2010
Andrew Lansley backs Burnley crusade

11 March 2010
First patient reported outcomes due in April

11 March 2010
Paul Corrigan on suspending NHS incentives

11 March 2010
Plans made for deauthorising failing FTs

11 March 2010
Hospital staff at risk of 'compassion fatigue'

9-Mar-2010
Trust defends its use of extra beds

9-Mar-2010
'Full' hospitals are treating patients in non-clinical areas

9-Mar-2010
NHS trusts 'give incorrect performance data'

8-Mar-2010
Trust appoints medical director

5-Mar-2010
Call to boost rural healthcare

5-Mar-2010
Excluding independent sector from NHS services 'potentially unlawful'

4-Mar-2010
Heart surgery suspended as deaths investigated

4-Mar-2010
Francis report criticises SHA's mortality research

4 March 2010
Jenny Owen on a new solution to health and social care funding

4 March 2010
Monitor claims its quality bar is now set high enough

4 March 2010
NHS West Midlands faces review of its services

4 March 2010
Noel Plumridge on the rules of payment by results

4 March 2010
One in 10 concerned about own trust's care standards

4 March 2010
Nottingham trust criticised over waiting time irregularities

3-Mar-2010
Mental health trusts best at patient involvement

3-Mar-2010
NHS market reforms are not linked with better care

3-Mar-2010
Royal Berks chief takes up post

3-Mar-2010
Emergency medical retrieval service to be extended

2-Mar-2010
Why NHS volunteering is all round value

1-Mar-2010
Mid Staffs families to sue for manslaughter

1-Mar-2010
Basildon 'guilty' over patient death

26-Feb-2010
Trust given foundation status

26-Feb-2010
17-language NHS guide available

26-Feb-2010
Managers in court over hospital death

26-Feb-2010
Tories outline hospital efficiency plans

26-Feb-2010
Discharge notes: how to save time and reduce errors

26-Feb-2010
The Francis report's 18 recommendations

25-Feb-2010
Kent maternity plans referred to health secretary

25 February 2010
Mark Britnell on the future of Agenda for Change

25 February 2010
Mark Goldman on inspiring people

25 February 2010
Michael White: NHS reorganisation row

25 February 2010
Rescue plan for ailing hospitals in doubt

25 February 2010
Inconsistent risk assessment led to pressure ulcers at Mid Staffs, inquiry finds

24-Feb-2010
Deficient provision of food and water at Mid Staffs, inquiry found

24-Feb-2010
Staff at Mid Staffs 'lacked compassion'

24-Feb-2010
Remit announced for investigation of regulatory bodies post Mid Staffs

24-Feb-2010
'No excuse' for privacy and dignity failings at Mid Staffs

24-Feb-2010
Relatives had to 'alter faults in medical records' at Mid Staffs

24-Feb-2010
Don't use death rates to predict real deaths, Mid Staffs inquiry warns

24-Feb-2010
'Unsuccessful management' of Mid Staffs criticised

24-Feb-2010
Mid Staffs staff experienced 'culture of fear', Francis says

24-Feb-2010
Pressure to discharge 'should not influence decisions', says Mid Staffs report

24-Feb-2010
Weak hygiene practices found at Mid Staffs

24-Feb-2010
High incidence of falls at Mid Staffs due to 'insufficiently qualified' staff

24-Feb-2010
Mid Staffs 'a warning on staff shortages'

24-Feb-2010
Mid Staffs ‘sobering account’ of leadership failure, says NHS Confederation

24-Feb-2010
Mid Staffs board to consider further action against individuals

24-Feb-2010
Regulator starts separate inquiry into Mid Staffs

24-Feb-2010
Families of Mid Staffs victims still want public inquiry

24-Feb-2010
Union calls for tougher regulation after Mid Staffs

24-Feb-2010
CQC will register Mid Staffs but with caveats

24-Feb-2010
Mid Staffs report calls for regulation of managers

24-Feb-2010
Hospital told to take 'urgent action' on dirty wards

24-Feb-2010
Acute trusts could pay for post discharge care

24-Feb-2010
Misdiagnosis led to death of patient at Mid Staffs

24-Feb-2010
No arthritis care improvement since 2003 - MPs

23-Feb-2010
Four in 10 junior doctors 'on understaffed rotas'

23-Feb-2010
Chief executive to depart from Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust

19-Feb-2010
Tameside Hospital faces regulator scrutiny

19-Feb-2010
NHS East of England boss rejects Hinchingbrooke privatisation claim

19-Feb-2010
Strong managers 'improve NHS care'

19-Feb-2010
Mark Goldman stepping down

18-Feb-2010
Cally Bann: funding gap

18 February 2010
DH takes hold of death ratio debate

18 February 2010
Listening NHS chiefs boost ratings

18 February 2010
Monitor revises private patient income cap rules

18 February 2010
NHS car parking: driven to distraction

18 February 2010
NHS needs 'business model' change, says former Brown adviser

18 February 2010
NHS Scotland meeting cancer targets

17-Feb-2010
Annual cancer costs 'to reach £25bn'

17-Feb-2010
Independent review of Cornwall reconfiguration

17-Feb-2010
NHS trusts 'not acting on safety alerts'

16-Feb-2010
Nursing commission recommends stricter criteria for 'advanced' status

16-Feb-2010
Making safety a board priority is a winning move

16-Feb-2010
Archbishop attacks NHS for 'lack of compassion'

15-Feb-2010
New deputy chief exec for South Downs

15-Feb-2010
NHS Wales meets six month waiting time target

12-Feb-2010
Acute sector faces future deficit of £7.5bn

11 February 2010
Andy Burnham raises doubts about FT accountability

11 February 2010
Community proposals may prompt 'musical chairs' timewasting

11 February 2010
Janice Stevens on same sex hospital accommodation

11 February 2010
NHS boards must focus on 'near misses' to make savings

11 February 2010
Stephen Eames on NHS merger turkeys

11 February 2010
Tim Kelsey to leave Dr Foster

10-Feb-2010
MPs demand management changes at Tameside

10-Feb-2010
Lincolnshire trust chief exec sacked for swearing

10-Feb-2010
Government promises free cancer home care

8-Feb-2010
Swine flu website to close

5-Feb-2010
Police drop probe into hospital's post-mortems

5-Feb-2010
Report highlights trauma care variations

5-Feb-2010
Home care ‘could save NHS more than £1bn a year’

4 February 2010
Ministers poised to confirm details for quality accounts

4 February 2010
More patients pick private care

4 February 2010
NHS quality accounts: quality is becoming an accountable business

4 February 2010
Only two trusts miss CQC application deadline

4 February 2010
SHAs plan staff cuts of up to 10pc

4 February 2010
Stephen Thornton on interpreting NHS performance data

4 February 2010
Thomas Hughes-Hallett on a better place to die

4 February 2010
Trusts told to monitor use of safer surgery checklist

4 February 2010
Your Humble Servant: weapons of self-destruction

4 February 2010
Stroke action falls short of CQC standards

3-Feb-2010
Understanding patient costs

2-Feb-2010
Monitor appoints interim chair

2-Feb-2010
C diff outbreak inquiry start date set

2-Feb-2010
'Extraordinary resources' needed in C diff fight

2-Feb-2010
Tories pledge to slash hospital readmissions

1-Feb-2010
Leaked FTN document: no job guarantees for foundation trust staff

29-Jan-2010
NHS boss 'ordered report cover up'

29-Jan-2010
Doctors still failing to meet hand-washing targets

29-Jan-2010
Patient experience: what counts for the customer?

29-Jan-2010
Bill Moyes calls for DH unit to tackle ‘lethargic’ non-FTs

28 January 2010
Bill Moyes takes pride in rocking the foundations

28 January 2010
Cancer cost saving

28 January 2010
NHS IT programme: patient record options urged

28 January 2010
NICE guidance calls for clot risk checks

28 January 2010
Peter Reeves: a new deal for NHS non-executives

28 January 2010
QIPP leads reveal hit list

28 January 2010
SHAs return to topslicing budgets

28 January 2010
Trust failings allowed nurse to kill, says report

27-Jan-2010
King's Fund report calls for end of life care investment

27-Jan-2010
Foundation seeks pay rise below Agenda for Change rate

27-Jan-2010
Hospital lands low carbon award

26-Jan-2010
Health Foundation announces quality improvement scheme

25-Jan-2010
Advisory panel for BME cancer patients

22-Jan-2010
Take action to avoid coroners’ reports

22-Jan-2010
Pathology Modernisation

21-Jan-2010
Pathology Modernisation - conference sessions

21-Jan-2010
King's Fund highlights risks of quality reporting

21-Jan-2010
Care UK chief hits out at renewal process as ITC contracts expire

21 January 2010
Elder care pilot slashes hospital admissions

21 January 2010
MPs told to ‘free’ PCTs of acute commissioning

21 January 2010
Neil Churchill: advice for managers on giving criticism

21 January 2010
Rise in acute admissions will be ‘unsustainable’ for PCTs

21 January 2010
This is PCTs’ admission of failure – but everyone shares the blame

21 January 2010
DH delays student funds shake-up

20-Jan-2010
Four nations research reignites row over targets

20-Jan-2010
Four countries’ pulses beat to different tunes

20-Jan-2010
Payment by Results - conference sessions

19-Jan-2010
Payment by Results

19-Jan-2010
Risk Management

19-Jan-2010
Basildon prosecuted over disabled patient's death

19-Jan-2010
Tailored care for cancer survivors

19-Jan-2010
CQC critical over Milton Keynes baby deaths

19-Jan-2010
Department of Health defends NHS energy contracts

18-Jan-2010
Alder Hey to bury final human remains

18-Jan-2010
Risk Management - conference sessions

15-Jan-2010
Barts chair steps down

14 January 2010
Brian James: how to save NHS services in a recession

14 January 2010
Improvement tsar warns SHAs to ‘refresh’ Darzi visions urgently

14 January 2010
Mid Staffs looks for courage to confront poor standards

14 January 2010
Monitor concerned over vacant FT executive posts

14 January 2010
Politics ‘distracting’ from NHS quality drive

14 January 2010
Sophia Christie on a crumbling model of healthcare

14 January 2010
Zimmer frames in the snow and sinister swine flu

14 January 2010
Bullied hospital manager awarded £150,000 compensation

13-Jan-2010
CQC calls in high ranking fixer for ‘chaotic’ trust registration process

13-Jan-2010
Jump in NHS 24 calls over festive break

12-Jan-2010
Personal health plans for injured soldiers

12-Jan-2010
Assessment centres: do your staff measure up?

11-Jan-2010
Abolishing NHS targets will reduce need for managers, David Cameron says

11-Jan-2010
Call to fine drunk NHS patients

11-Jan-2010
Cost of hospital thefts revealed

11-Jan-2010
Five firms and one FT shortlisted to take over NHS hospital

8-Jan-2010
Ambulance service in non-emergency appeal

8-Jan-2010
Work needed at Basildon and Thurrock - Andy Burnham

8-Jan-2010
Trauma service transformation

7-Jan-2010
Low clinical priority procedures

7-Jan-2010
More hospitals hit by winter weather

7-Jan-2010
Dr Foster misses out on NHS Choices mortality data contract

7 January 2010
Knighted Nicholson pays tribute to NHS staff

7 January 2010
PCTs falling behind on maternity access

7 January 2010
Red-rated Bristol foundation trust chief steps down

6-Jan-2010
NHS Tower Hamlets chair moves to Barts

6-Jan-2010
Winter chill hits acute services hard

6-Jan-2010
DH urged to put off Monitor search

6-Jan-2010
Hospital staff strike over pay and conditions

5-Jan-2010
DH appoints first clinical director for informatics

5-Jan-2010
Scheme supports patients leaving ICU

5-Jan-2010
Norovirus halts surgery at hospitals

4-Jan-2010
Basildon faces legionnaires' probe

4-Jan-2010
Competitive commissioning

Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
Excess inventory

Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
Medicines management

Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
QIPP challenges

Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
Ken Jarrold: what is the future of NHS regulation?

31-Dec-2009
Basildon and Thurrock making progress on hygiene, says CQC

23-Dec-2009
Tories accuse government over A&E waiting targets

23-Dec-2009
Yorkshire acute trust appoints chair

22-Dec-2009
Operating theatre 'scheduler' could save trusts more than £5m a year

21-Dec-2009
Extent of thefts from Scottish NHS revealed

21-Dec-2009
DH appoints new urgent and emergency care tsar

21-Dec-2009
Norovirus forces ward closures

21-Dec-2009
Priority NHS access charter for armed forces plan

18-Dec-2009
Call to be proactive on measuring patient experience

17-Dec-2009
Ambulance targets review urged

17-Dec-2009
Jon Restell: could the NHS ever be like this?

17 December 2009
NHS IT must focus on efficiency and core elements

16-Dec-2009
‘Avoid merger distractions’

16-Dec-2009
Foundation trusts urged to take over more NHS activity

16-Dec-2009
PCTs could struggle to hit MRSA ‘objective’

16-Dec-2009
Clot prevention is 2010-11 quality priority

16-Dec-2009
Tariff puts brake on acute admissions

16-Dec-2009
Trusts poised to eliminate mixed sex wards, report says

16-Dec-2009
Bill Moyes departs on a warning note for FTs

16-Dec-2009
Nurse policing is to be ‘more proactive’

16-Dec-2009
Advances in care for kidney patients

15-Dec-2009
Confusion over emergency services

15-Dec-2009
Poor performers on MRSA targeted

14-Dec-2009
NHS investigates surge in equipment theft

14-Dec-2009
Major injury: how regional units take the crisis out of trauma

14-Dec-2009
NHS operating framework to offer mixed blessings for hospitals

11-Dec-2009
Hospital income link to patient satisfaction

11-Dec-2009
Ambulance service efficiency savings halted

11-Dec-2009
Patients could be offered one to one nursing care

10-Dec-2009
Andy Burnham offers to guarantee nurses' jobs in return for less pay

10-Dec-2009
Court rules Monitor unlawful on private patient cap

10-Dec-2009
Stephen Eames on quality vs cost

10 December 2009
Pre-Budget report removes £500m in health capital spending

9-Dec-2009
NHS operating framework hits hard

9-Dec-2009
Labour plan puts adult social care in NHS hands as ministers seek savings

9-Dec-2009
NHS boards react to Gordon Brown’s salary shame threat

9-Dec-2009
Book Review: Now you see it

9-Dec-2009
Domestic abuse action team for Birmingham hospital

9-Dec-2009
Foundation governors 'must be key in reconfiguration'

9-Dec-2009
Three trusts given equality compliance notices

9-Dec-2009
Gas explosion at Manchester hospital

8-Dec-2009
HSJ exclusive: NHS to take responsibility for social care

8-Dec-2009
A costing system where every patient counts

7-Dec-2009
NHS North East backs £464m hospital build plan

4-Dec-2009
Are death rates fair? You decide

3 December 2009
Safety outcry is ‘mandate’ for NHS quality

3 December 2009
Target inequalities, beat cancer

3 December 2009
Trusts told to focus on ambulance handovers

2-Dec-2009
Lung cancer treatment 'varies hugely'

2-Dec-2009
New bid to reduce A&E admissions

1-Dec-2009
Hospitals given nuisance powers

1-Dec-2009
Call to overhaul primary cancer care

30-Nov-2009
Trusts 'want better VTE management'

30-Nov-2009
Mike O'Brien defends Care Quality Commission

30-Nov-2009
CQC 'sees no need to intervene'

30-Nov-2009
The national standard for intermediate care

30-Nov-2009
Basildon responds to CQC report

27-Nov-2009
Report calls for urgent action at Essex trust

27-Nov-2009
Assisted suicide: life and death in the balance

27-Nov-2009
Community wound scheme yields savings

26-Nov-2009
Conservative win could kill local NHS shake-up plans

26 November 2009
North London acute trusts considering merger

26 November 2009
Patient safety reporting still fails to reach boards in 1 in 10 acute trusts

26 November 2009
Swine flu virus may have infected a third of children

25-Nov-2009
Next year's tariff delayed until mid-February

25-Nov-2009
Call for increased HIV support

25-Nov-2009
NHS 'must boost use of technology'

25-Nov-2009
Infection control measures 'ineffective'

24-Nov-2009
Out of hours contact can prevent unnecessary admissions

24-Nov-2009
Trust may halt weekend surgery to cut costs

23-Nov-2009
Swine flu could lead to shortage of children's intensive care beds

19-Nov-2009
Clinical improvements could save NHS £9bn a year

19 November 2009
Could a swine flu surge see a slump in targets?

19 November 2009
One in five PCTs overspent as SHAs predict cash freeze

19 November 2009
Overspends are another reason to move care away from hospital

19 November 2009
Stroke care gets better since health check

19 November 2009
Tension as a Monitor chair still not named

19 November 2009
Trusts target staff sickness to save money

19 November 2009
Poor dementia care 'costs NHS millions'

17-Nov-2009
Rose Gibb wins full right to appeal compensation claim

17-Nov-2009
Risk management: create a culture of safety

17-Nov-2009
Intensive care investments cut death rate, study finds

13-Nov-2009
Ambitious reconfiguration plan abandoned

12 November 2009
Managers’ anger at O'Brien's name and shame threat

12 November 2009
Microsoft on the lookout for NHS business

12 November 2009
North east London hospital shake-up consultation coming soon

12 November 2009
Stephen Eames on managing the future of the NHS

12 November 2009
Trusts frustrated over ‘worse’ mortality rates

12 November 2009
DH banking on patients not claiming entitlements

11-Nov-2009
NHS managers think nursing directors lack ‘clout’

11-Nov-2009
Andy Burnham responds to infection control criticisms

10-Nov-2009
Cheshire and Wirral names chief executive

10-Nov-2009
Medical graduates 'poorly prepared'

10-Nov-2009
Hospital triumphs at green awards

9-Nov-2009
'Small increase' in swine flu numbers

6-Nov-2009
EU law 'causing hospital deaths'

5-Nov-2009
David Cameron pulls together threads on health policy

5 November 2009
DH proposals threaten trainee medic posts

5 November 2009
Hospitals are blocking stroke care progress, and patients are bearing the cost

5 November 2009
NHS South West named one of the best for stroke achievement

5 November 2009
Noel Plumridge on medicine’s gender balance

5 November 2009
Roger Boyle answers HSJ’s questions on improving stroke care

5 November 2009
Trusts fail to keep up pace on stroke targets

5 November 2009
Foundation trust accuses Monitor of 'intimidation'

4-Nov-2009
Voters halve as foundation trust governors win elections uncontested

4-Nov-2009
Targeted cleaning 'cuts MRSA rates and saves money'

3-Nov-2009
Integrated services: reducing hospital admissions among older people

3-Nov-2009
Productive ward frees up half a million hours

3-Nov-2009
Demystifying NHS data

2-Nov-2009
Foundation trust chair replaced by Monitor

2-Nov-2009
NHS plea for more organ donors

2-Nov-2009
Sir Liam Donaldson warns of swine flu pressure

2-Nov-2009
Rise in swine flu cases

30-Oct-2009
Investigation launched after woman demands all-white maternity team

29-Oct-2009
Bowel cancer audit highlights regional variations

29 October 2009
DH to challenge Europe on overseas treatment

29 October 2009
Going local: how to set up an autonomous renal unit

29 October 2009
Hinchingbrooke opens to bidding for franchise

29 October 2009
NHS organisations hit staff numbers to save costs

29 October 2009
Paul Corrigan: why Andy Burnham is wrong to rip up the NHS competition rulebook

29 October 2009
East Midlands SHA to consider changes to trust board

28-Oct-2009
Northumberland hospital approved

28-Oct-2009
Hospitals to replace nurses with lower paid assistants to cut costs

28-Oct-2009
Tories pledge marginal pricing under PbR tariff

28-Oct-2009
Trust promises better data security

27-Oct-2009
DH disputes maternity choice findings

27-Oct-2009
Gay blood donation ban under review

27-Oct-2009
CQC calls for better information sharing on patient medications

27-Oct-2009
Bristol trust appoints chairman

26-Oct-2009
Welsh hospitals prepare for swine flu

26-Oct-2009
Barts faces fine over IT failures

23-Oct-2009
Concern as swine flu cases double

23-Oct-2009
Annual health check: impact of targets and FTs seen in acute score slide

22 October 2009
DH eyes patient cap for new tariff rules

22 October 2009
Media Watch: News of the World becomes preferred provider

22 October 2009
Tariff cap may limit some trusts’ ability to survive the recession

22 October 2009
Tories need clear vision and a stronger message on health

22 October 2009
Working time directive reprieve granted to more acute rotas

22 October 2009
Controversial hospital reconfiguration cuts death rates

21-Oct-2009
David Nicholson warns NHS of nightmare winter ahead

21-Oct-2009
Alcohol admissions could hit one million a year

20-Oct-2009
Barts and the London appoints chief executive

20-Oct-2009
Private treatment centre returned to NHS control

19-Oct-2009
Trust's FT application back on track

16-Oct-2009
Planning for winter influenza - assessing the potential impact on HCAIs

15-Oct-2009
Trust admits doctoring A&E waiting time figures

15-Oct-2009
Health check shows NHS is not focusing on quality - Andrew Lansley

15-Oct-2009
Health check improvements mask decline in acute trust performance

15 October 2009
Monitor clashes with foundation chair over safety

14-Oct-2009
Mixed success on mortality rate reductions

14-Oct-2009
PCT chiefs are not underpaid, says DH

14-Oct-2009
Mental health FTs allowed to treat private patients, but rules face fundamental review

13-Oct-2009
Government backs down from controversial foundation trust proposals

13-Oct-2009
Pay freeze sparks fears over nurse staffing levels

13 October 2009
Doctor warned over abuse of power

12-Oct-2009
Working time directive costs lives - RCS study

12-Oct-2009
Health and Safety Executive slates trust's 'complacency' over water supply legionella

9-Oct-2009
Access to maternity care

8-Oct-2009
Organ donor numbers rise by a million

8-Oct-2009
Andrew Lansley on a Conservative recipe for NHS reform

8 October 2009
Mid Staffs releases report on former chief executive

8 October 2009
NHS admin must be slashed by £1.5bn

8 October 2009
SHAs must assess delivery of maternity choice

8 October 2009
Sophia Christie on getting the best from GPs

8 October 2009
Hospital plans 'flawed', says former chief executive

7-Oct-2009
Sex offender sparks investigation at Essex trust

7-Oct-2009
Scale of smoking spend revealed

5-Oct-2009
Boost for Scottish telehealth

5-Oct-2009
Training blamed for hospital deaths

1-Oct-2009
Cally Bann: no beating an annual general meeting

1 October 2009
Cornwall PCT looks for leader as another chief goes

1 October 2009
FT warning over competition panel ruling on consultants

1 October 2009
Media Watch: 'secret tipplers' and Scottish GPs

1 October 2009
Most PCTs meet only ‘minimum requirements’ on resources use

1 October 2009
Stephen Eames on defending district general hospitals

1 October 2009
Andy Burnham makes hospital car parking pledge

30-Sep-2009
Hospital mortality ratio wrangling ‘compromises confidence’

30-Sep-2009
Minister delays foundation trust application

30-Sep-2009
The four hour A&E target: an accident waiting to happen?

29-Sep-2009
Alan Milburn attacks Andy Burnham for making NHS the preferred provider

29-Sep-2009
Lib Dems reveal £110m NHS parking charges

28-Sep-2009
Gordon Brown to unveil seven day cancer test pledge

28-Sep-2009
NHS hospital equipment 'under-used' - Taxpayers' Alliance

25-Sep-2009
Waiting times

24-Sep-2009
Operating theatre management

24-Sep-2009
Media Watch: NHS cost cutting

24 September 2009
Monitor: foundation trust approval process ‘has saved NHS millions’

24 September 2009
NHS competition panel rejects limit on consultants’ work outside their contracts

24 September 2009
NHS job cut warning: a 1 per cent pay increase equals 10,000 jobs

24 September 2009
NHS South Central chief promises organisational change will be 'last resort'

24 September 2009
Nurses urged to show savings

24 September 2009
Patient satisfaction guaranteed: the future of payment by results?

24 September 2009
Paul Corrigan on NHS reform

24 September 2009
Quality accounts: trusts to pick their own performance measures

24 September 2009
Surgery productivity tool could save trusts £1.6m a year

24 September 2009
NICE approves stomach tumour treatment

23-Sep-2009
'Mortality rates rise when new doctors start work'

23-Sep-2009
Patient reported outcome measures may be public next year

23-Sep-2009
Rose Gibb wins right to appeal judgement on Maidstone pay-out

23-Sep-2009
Maternity unit off special measures

22-Sep-2009
NHS information handling must improve - CQC

21-Sep-2009
Poor communication 'spreads hospital infections'

21-Sep-2009
Andy Burnham told to 'take care' over paying for quality

18-Sep-2009
Andy Burnham warns NHS managers not to conduct 'mini spending reviews'

17-Sep-2009
Battle over foundation freedom heads for Parliament

17 September 2009
CQC warns 'laggards' over core standards deadline

17 September 2009
Incentive paradox dogs weight loss procedures

17 September 2009
Managers fearful over DH hit list

17 September 2009
Media Watch: Andy Burnham and patient experience

17 September 2009
Nursing union considers performance-related pay

17 September 2009
Premium rate call charges to be outlawed in NHS

17 September 2009
Spending on maternity 'now increasing'

17 September 2009
West Midlands trust aims for big reductions in A&E attendance

17 September 2009
Government set to issue a five year spending plan for NHS

16-Sep-2009
Obese patients cost Scottish NHS millions

16-Sep-2009
Swine flu: what about NHS workers?

14-Sep-2009
Thirty four trusts not meeting minimum standards

11-Sep-2009
NHS can double intensive care beds for swine flu peak

11-Sep-2009
Patient safety programme improves infection rates in Scotland

10-Sep-2009
Lansley: NHS growth will be much lower than under Thatcher

10-Sep-2009
London acutes could see workload fall by up to 72pc

10 September 2009
McKinsey report was no fiendish plot, just an attempt to grasp the reality

10 September 2009
McKinsey report: politicians accused of not facing reality

10 September 2009
NHS cost-cutting: how to save £20bn by 2014

10 September 2009
NHS spending: McKinsey exposes hard choices to save £20bn

10 September 2009
'People, the NHS needs managers'

10 September 2009
Rival plan found only half of McKinsey savings

10 September 2009
Shift NHS patients out of hospital urges Tribal

10 September 2009
Acute trust mergers expected to increase

9-Sep-2009
Swine flu overtime hours must be put on record

9-Sep-2009
Bill Moyes tells foundation trusts to 'refuse to jump' to DH demands

8-Sep-2009
Waiting time targets 'have not increased inequalities'

8-Sep-2009
Hospitals 'should appoint A&E alcohol liaison officers'

8-Sep-2009
NHS 'not ready' for swine flu pandemic - Tories

8-Sep-2009
Guide to increasing breastfeeding rates with the Baby Friendly initiative

8-Sep-2009
NHS recovers cost of treating crash victims

7-Sep-2009
How to plan for cold weather with a swine flu pandemic looming

7-Sep-2009
NHS staff benefits: for the chop?

4-Sep-2009
DH is told 137,000 NHS posts must go in next five years

3-Sep-2009
DH makes PFI debt pledge

3 September 2009
FTs fear biddable successor to Bill Moyes

3 September 2009
John Redwood on NHS efficiency

3 September 2009
McKinsey cost-saving proposals focus on waste in acute sector

3-Sep-2009
Media Watch: nurses, hospital food and cricket

3 September 2009
NHS regulators need a new outlook after Mid Staffs scandal

3 September 2009
DH to review ‘penalty’ for day case payments

2-Sep-2009
Fraudulent NHS finance director is struck off

2-Sep-2009
Health overview and scrutiny committees: building better relationships

2-Sep-2009
NHS leaders vow to cut emissions by 10pc

2-Sep-2009
Alcohol-related hospital admissions 'on the rise'

1-Sep-2009
NHS patients 'eat worse than prisoners'

1-Sep-2009
Swine flu: lessons from the first wave of the pandemic

1-Sep-2009
NHS trusts slammed by DH over 'unacceptable' plans to export drugs

28-Aug-2009
CQC to get tougher on NHS spending

27 August 2009
CQC's high death-rate hospital list at risk of ‘scaring’ public

27 August 2009
DH backs oncology centres call

27 August 2009
Military training for NHS managers will win frontline battles

27 August 2009
Moosa Patel on strong NHS boards

27 August 2009
NHS IT's local future

27 August 2009
'Organic' reduction in PCTs under Tories

27 August 2009
Patient records: jokes about doctors’ bad handwriting are no longer funny

27 August 2009
Poor NHS records spark fears over patient safety

27 August 2009
Stephen Eames on dementia strategy

27 August 2009
NHS maternity services overstretched, say Tories

26-Aug-2009
Inflated mileage claims 'cost NHS millions'

26-Aug-2009
NHS Scotland hits waiting time target

25-Aug-2009
NHS maternity services 'suffering from lack of board engagement'

25-Aug-2009
Swine flu antiviral guidance issued

24-Aug-2009
Calls for local NHS number campaign

24-Aug-2009
Heart attack follow-up care target missed

24-Aug-2009
Heart attack care target missed

24-Aug-2009
NHS muscular dystrophy care 'inadequate'

24-Aug-2009
Get under the skin of nursing’s real costs

24-Aug-2009
Hospital trusts told to set up acute oncology services

21-Aug-2009
Extreme operations: a day in the life of NHS staff serving in Afghanistan

21-Aug-2009
Right care, right place, right time

20-Aug-2009
Patient safety

20-Aug-2009
Banks 'using PFIs to boost profits'

20-Aug-2009
C diff and MRSA deaths up in Wales

20-Aug-2009
Cally Bann on winter pressures

20 August 2009
Chief resigns from £1.8m deficit hospital

20 August 2009
Clinical coding improves but third of trusts still overcharging

20 August 2009
CQC names high death-rate NHS trusts

20 August 2009
Darzi's old fashioned defence of the NHS

20 August 2009
David Colin-Thomé leads review of NHS urgent care policy

20 August 2009
Don Redding on patient experience

20 August 2009
Foundation trust pipeline is not blocked, insists DH

20 August 2009
High death rates or just more data headaches: it’s no contest

20 August 2009
How to ensure patients get the right care at the right time

20-Aug-2009
NHS chiefs told saving planet will save them money

20 August 2009
Noel Plumridge on NHS cash in a cold climate

20 August 2009
PCTs decide on swine flu vaccine priority

20 August 2009
Raising NHS staff wellbeing can ‘save trusts millions’

19-Aug-2009
£10m deficit trust board will focus on patient safety

19-Aug-2009
London's acute trusts told to plan for fewer services

19-Aug-2009
Hospital suspends post-mortems after critical review

18-Aug-2009
NHS smoking cessation: sticking with quitting

17-Aug-2009
Variations in access to drugs 'unacceptable', says Rarer Cancers Forum

15-Aug-2009
Variations in access to drugs 'unacceptable', says Rarer Cancers Forum

14-Aug-2009
Foundation trusts plan to bolster earnings through slow pay growth

13 August 2009
Leadership in patient safety

13-Aug-2009
Lessons for the UK in Obama’s universal healthcare plan

13 August 2009
Oxford Radcliffe chief warns savings must be found

13 August 2009
Perioperative care

13-Aug-2009
Bullying row trust appoints new non execs

12-Aug-2009
FT confirms two suspensions over A&E 'irregularities'

12-Aug-2009
PCTs gear up for swine flu pandemic

12-Aug-2009
NHS Confed raises doubts over Conservative IT plans

11-Aug-2009
Foundation trusts 'must plan for spending cuts'

11-Aug-2009
Scotland 'on track to meet NHS targets'

10-Aug-2009
Lewisham PCT agrees merger with hospital trust

7-Aug-2009
Concern over patient safety incidents in Scottish hospitals

6-Aug-2009
Junior doctors' training 'at risk'

6-Aug-2009
Ambulance services: urgent attention for non-emergency care

6-Aug-2009
Bill Moyes blames MPs over FT de-authorisation row

6-Aug-2009
DH data shows no link between NHS spending and patient outcomes

6-Aug-2009
First NICE quality standards will include stroke

6-Aug-2009
Matching best PCT performers could cut NHS costs by 20pc

6-Aug-2009
NHS calls on retired staff to help win swine flu fight

6-Aug-2009
‘Unprecedented’ review by PCT finds progress after Mid Staffs scandal

5-Aug-2009
Financial fallout for London trusts from medical school redundancies

5-Aug-2009
Call to extend clinical outcome data on choose and book

5-Aug-2009
Labour calls for wider C diff probe

5-Aug-2009
Tories 'planning NHS cutbacks'

3-Aug-2009
Ways to buy in to the lung cancer strategy

3-Aug-2009
Organ transplant ban for foreign private patients

31-Jul-2009
Andy Burnham seeks swine flu critical care assurance

31-Jul-2009
NHS to become a landlord for private treatment centres

30-Jul-2009
Ben Bridgewater on why funding clinical audit is essential

30 July 2009
Cally Bann on sporting achievement

30 July 2009
Health partnership aims to put nursing at its ‘heart’

30 July 2009
Healthcare watchdogs could suspend NHS inspections during crisis

30 July 2009
Lords raise questions on swine flu preparedness

30 July 2009
Ministers were warned ahead of Mid Staffordshire approval

30 July 2009
NICE rebuffs PCTs’ call to help identify more areas for savings

30 July 2009
Monitor accuses DH of undermining FT independence

29-Jul-2009
Screening shows increase in breast cancer rates

29-Jul-2009
DH will probe how row over NHS targets led to bullying claims

29-Jul-2009
How to ensure choice in maternity services

28-Jul-2009
Calls to suspend working time directive to cope with swine flu pressures

28-Jul-2009
Private patients 'have full NHS rights'

28-Jul-2009