All Health Service Journal articles in April 2018
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News
Lung cancer death trust is an outlier on surgery
The trust at the centre of a lung cancer deaths scandal has been identified as an outlier for providing surgery on fewer early stage patients than is normal.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Free money, empty seats and false starts
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Chief Executive Interview: Richard Beeken, Walsall Healthcare Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Membership subscribers. Each month in 2018 a member of the HSJ expert team will conduct a challenging, candid and in-depth interview with a provider trust boss.
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HSJ Interactive
What benefits can biosimilars bring to the NHS?
Alison Moore reports on an HSJ roundtable which explored how the biosimilars market can be expanded, what the potential benefits and challenges are, and what needs to be done to increase uptake
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HSJ Local
Over 1,000 staff to transfer to trust subsidiary company
Around 1,100 staff at a teaching trust, including many employed by Serco, are to transfer into a new NHS owned company this summer.
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News
New NHS purchasing chief predicts 'most difficult year'
The new managing director of a major NHS purchasing body believes this year will be the most difficult for procurement staff working to deliver savings for the health service.
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HSJ Local
Struggling STP bans 'unhelpful' board member behaviour
A struggling sustainability and transformation partnership has created a list of “helpful” and “unhelpful” behaviours for its board members and plans to hold a “reconciliation event” for system leaders.
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HSJ Local
Trust in 'negative equity' questions whether it is 'going concern'
A foundation trust with a £62m deficit has sought advice from its external auditors before deciding whether it could declare itself a “going concern.”
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HSJ Local
Major A&E reconfiguration delayed
Plans to consult on much needed changes to accident and emergency services in east Kent are being pushed back.
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News
New CQC chief executive revealed
The new chief executive of the Care Quality Commission will be Ian Trenholm, the current chief executive of the NHS Blood and Transplant Authority.
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News
How are different health systems performing?
A comparison of health systems’ overall performance: which are leading the pack and which are trailing?
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News
NHS cybersecurity centre held up after contract concerns
A new security centre to defend the NHS from cyberattacks has been delayed for months after another government department raised concerns, papers released to HSJ reveal.
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HSJ Local
'Advanced' health system CCG forecasts unplanned deficit of £19m
The clinicial commissioning group for an “advanced” health system is expected to post a significant unplanned deficit in 2017-18.
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News
Daily Insight: Radiology crisis and fraud investigations
The biggest stories and talking points from Tuesday
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HSJ Local
Judge criticises CCGs for spending public money on 'expensive lawyers'
A judge has criticised two clinical commissioning groups for spending public money on “expensive lawyers” in a ruling on funding of care for patients registered in another area.
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News
Five NHS directors under investigation for fraud
Five current or former directors of NHS organisations are being investigated by the national NHS fraud agency, it has emerged.
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News
Daily Insight: The wrong side of the bed numbers
The must read stories and talking points in the NHS
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HSJ Local
'Severe harm' to patients caught up in huge x-rays backlog
Three patients suffered severe harm because their chest x-rays were among tens of thousands of tests not reviewed properly at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust.
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Comment
Challenges facing the Transforming Care Programme for people with learning disabilities
We must ensure providers, the regulator and commissioners work together and with the people needing the care, to find quality and sustainable provision going forward, writes Ann Mackay