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Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust

Queen Mary's, Sidcup, South London Healthcare NHS Trust

NHS earmarks £300m to put hospitals through failure regime

18-Jan-2013 | By

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.

Mid Staffs struggles with patient satisfaction test

18-Jan-2013 | By

Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has recorded the third-lowest score in the latest set of results from the midlands and east of England pilot of the friends and family test.

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Mid Staffs Foundation Trust 'too small' to be sustainable

17-Jan-2013 | By

Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust - the first organisation to be taken through Monitor’s failure regime - will not be able to sustain its current services in the future, investigators have found.

Nicholson argues he should survive to implement Mid Staffs recommendations

10-Jan-2013 | By ,

NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson believes he should survive any criticism levelled at him by the forthcoming report into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.

Robert Francis QC

Hunt: Francis could lead to more reorganisation

11-Dec-2012 | By

The health secretary has told HSJ he expects the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry to propose “pretty serious policy changes and potentially some structural changes”, potentially leading to more reorganisation.

Regulator's hit squad brands Mid Staffs 'unviable' in current form

10-Dec-2012 | By

The hit squad sent into Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust by regulator Monitor has concluded the troubled trust is unable to achieve long-term financial or clinical sustainability “in its current form”.

Robert Francis QC

Francis appoints health policy heavyweights to review recommendations

22-Nov-2012 | By

Robert Francis QC has appointed four independent experts to help him review the final recommendations of his report following the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry.

Former Mid Staffs boss working for addiction charity

16-Nov-2012 | By

The chief executive who led Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust when it was engulfed by a scandal of poor care has taken up a senior role at an addiction charity with links to the NHS.

FTs 20pc short of savings target

18-Oct-2012 | By

Monitor will today reveal that foundation trusts missed savings targets by nearly 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2012-13.

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Mid Staffs inquiry report delayed until January

19-Sep-2012 | By

The completion of the report of the public inquiry into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been delayed until January, it was confirmed today.

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Exclusive: Mid Staffs inquiry report delayed further

18-Sep-2012 | By ,

The long awaited final report of the public inquiry into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust is set to be further delayed, HSJ has learnt.

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Commissioners reject 24/7 reopening of Mid Staffs A&E

12-Sep-2012 | By

Commissioners have rejected Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust’s plan to reopen its accident and emergency department 24 hours a day.

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Monitor announces review of Mid Staffs sustainability

11-Sep-2012 | By

Monitor has this morning announced a review into the long-term sustainability of services at the troubled Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, which could see the scandal-hit trust placed into special administration.

Consultant quits over diagnostic 'failures'

2 August 2012 | By

A whistleblower has resigned from his job as a consultant at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, complaining about a “complete failure of corporate leadership” at the trust.

National authority chief nurse was criticised at Mid Staffs inquiry

25-Jul-2012 | By

The nursing director of the new organisation charged with making sure all NHS providers become foundation trusts was criticised at the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust inquiry, it has emerged.

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Hunt's head is in the Risk Clouds

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The health secretary has a novel way of dealing with his daily crises

Stafford Hospital

Regulating managers is the wrong response to Mid Staffs

Poor managers are a symptom of a poorly governed system

Red pills

Telling tales could cut complaints

Patient Feedback Challenge aims to improve the patient-staff relations

Guardian political columnist Michael White

Michael White: escalation in healthcare's culture wars

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The Francis inquiry has riled the public and private sectors

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Hunt picks out a worthy target

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The health secretary is modelling himself on Michael Gove and Einstein

Nick Seddon

Hunt should remove workforce straitjackets

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To improve quality we need transformational approaches

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