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News, opinion and analysis on NHS corporate governance and compliance
NHS earmarks £300m to put hospitals through failure regime
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are planning a £300m joint contract to pay for failing trusts to go through the special administration regime.
Trust failed to check paediatric staff criminal records for three years
Managers at Barts and the London Trust were unable to guarantee paediatric staff had passed Criminal Records Bureau checks for three years, following a series of human resources failings, HSJ has learned.
Hospital chief executive role for Matthew Kershaw
Matthew Kershaw, who has lead the failure regime process at South London Healthcare Trust, is to take up a chief executive post at a large teaching hospital in the Spring.
Trust found to have altered waiting times figures
A large hospital trust has been caught altering waiting time figures to avoid breaches of the four-hour accident and emergency target.
Trusts get chance to push back FT application dates
Trusts are being asked to re-submit their target dates for attaining foundation status amid new evidence that significant numbers will fail to complete the process by the original deadline.
Leadership Academy will focus on culture at all levels
The drive to improve leadership skills in the health service will not be confined to high-fliers, the head of the NHS Leadership Academy has told HSJ.
NHS chief executives highlight 'climate of fear'
NHS chief executives feel hampered by a lack of support in a system a majority believe is geared towards short-term solutions, HSJ research reveals.
Neighbourhood watch could prevent another tragedy
Could the peer review model be adopted around the NHS?
How to design and deliver a clinically led organisation
There is a shortage of clinical involvement in hospital management
Clinical engagement and improved care
Moorfields has transformed its approach to clinical governance and staff engagement
A timely strategy for hospitals to cope with demand
Acute trusts cannot prevent overcrowding but they can reduce demand
Why the friends and family test won't work
The test will overload NHS leaders with more meaningless data
