Ben Clover
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Two days, 52 TFAs?
Two working days to go until the end of September and one of the trusts HSJ reported was too small to go it alone has announced its decision.
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PFI for an eye?
It is, of course, not for HSJ to speculate why a months old PFI story appeared so prominently in the quality press yesterday.
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Go reconfigure?
There was no “clever form of words” to spare the SoS’s blushes in the end.
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Comment on: Exclusive: Dramatic increase in emergency 12 hours 'trolley waits' uncovered
Hi Harry, Point taken on some of that. To explain the half-month, a half month is all that is available for the financial year so far. I have included it because the figures are so striking. In two weeks of the first quarter the total 12hr+ waiters was nearly one third of the entire 11-12 total, nearly a quarter of the 12-13. It is included in the temporary data series because of this, not because I favour random x-axes
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Comment on: Exclusive: Dramatic increase in emergency 12 hours 'trolley waits' uncovered
Hi Harry, Point taken on some of that. To explain the half-month, a half month is all that is available for the financial year so far. I have included it because the figures are so striking. In two weeks of the first quarter the total 12hr+ waiters was nearly one third of the entire 11-12 total, nearly a quarter of the 12-13. It is included in the temporary data series because of this, not because I favour random x-axes
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Comment on: Exclusive: Monitor reveals £15.7m consultancy spend
Hi anon 12:16pm. Yes, it would be additional to that (if it wasn't a rhetorical question). If it doesn't identify your trust could you give us (or me ben.clover@emap.com) an estimate of how much the steps you oulline cost?
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Comment on: Exclusive: Nearly 50 trusts 'have no independent future'
Sorry, not sure why that last appeared twice. I've just had another look Anon 3:10pm Princess Alexandra is in there. I take your point re Hinchingbrooke but given there's is a 10-year contract under a management franchise I thought having them in would be more confusing than enlightening. Anon 3:50pm, I think those are really good points, perhaps I haven't been clear enough that Qs of viability are in a designed-system, not a true market
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Comment on: Exclusive: Nearly 50 trusts 'have no independent future'
Hi anon 12:56, I have checked it a couple of times and think I have the number right. But if you look at the spreadsheet attached to the longer version here http://www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-local/local-briefing/analysed-the-state-of-the-ft-pipeline/5056557.article and see someone I've missed then please let me know ben.clover@emap.com or on here. I haven't counted the Gloucester aCFT that is due to be created soon
