Ben Clover
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Blog Posts (3)
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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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Comments (57)
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Comment on: NHS earmarks £300m to put hospitals through failure regime
Hi Anon 1:31 I think they'd argue that they are expanding significantly to develop more capacity of the kind you describe. But they've always functioned a bit like the Carthaginians, smaller in-house capacity and hiring people in. Arguably has worked fairly well (for Monitor, not the Carthaginians)
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Comment on: Nineteen trusts will have less than a year to become FTs
The TDA are refusing to say. You'd think it would be quite important to people in the locality to know when their trust was going to be considered fit to pass Monitor's standards. Have attached latest iteration of TFA tracker. Some of the you can figure out, suspect CFTs over-represented.
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Comment on: Trusts get chance to push back FT application dates
Anon 2:02pm I don't think he thinks like that
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Comment on: Doctors attack health trust plan
Hi 11.44am, The applicabaility of the four tests is interesting. They were only ever Lansley's policy, the failure regime process is backed up by statute so definitely supersedes it. But the four tests referred to the line AL would take when a reconfig decision ended up on his desk, through the IRP or wherever. And the TSA/failure regime process has put a choice on Hunt's desk. He has never signed up to the four tests. And given that the Lewisham GPs oppose the downgrade if Lansley were still SoS he would be obliged to reject the proposals. Unless you flexed the definition of "of the GP commissioners involved" to include all of SE London's rather than just Lewisham.
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Comment on: Doctors attack health trust plan
Hi 11.44am, The applicabaility of the four tests is interesting. They were only ever Lansley's policy, the failure regime process is backed up by statute so definitely supersedes it. But the four tests referred to the line AL would take when a reconfig decision ended up on his desk, through the IRP or wherever. And the TSA/failure regime process has put a choice on Hunt's desk. He has never signed up to the four tests. And given that the Lewisham GPs oppose the downgrade if Lansley were still SoS he would be obliged to reject the proposals. Unless you flexed the definition of "of the GP commissioners involved" to include all of SE London's rather than just Lewisham.
