All articles by Ben Clover – Page 16
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HSJ LocalHospital brings cleaning and catering in-house to ‘support minority ethnic communities’
An acute trust has brought their cleaning and catering contracts back in house to boost workforce equality and support staff from minority ethnic communities.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Fourth wave blues
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsHancock: ‘no evidence that a shortage of PPE led to anybody dying of covid’
The official estimate of the number of health and social care staff to have died from coronavirus during the pandemic now stands at around 1,500, Matt Hancock told a Parliamentary committee today.
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Expert BriefingRegion plans to ‘eradicate 18-month waits’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingHospital group chief installed at neighbouring trust
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsPatients needing scans to be ranked on risk of becoming disabled
Patients awaiting a diagnostic test are to be assessed according to risk of becoming disabled as the service tries to prioritise in the face of huge backlogs.
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NewsNearly half of eye patients at Hancock’s local trust waiting more than a year
The East of England has been revealed as the worst-performing region for long ophthalmology waits, with almost half the waiting list at one acute trust already breaching the 52-week milestone.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Irreparable sight loss
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsRevealed: NHS England and Improvement’s £30.8m redundancy bill
NHS England and NHS Improvement spent £30.8m on compulsory redundancies during the two-year period in which they effectively merged, and made six-figure exit payments to five directors, accounts show.
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NewsExclusive: Windrush scandal made ethnic minority people ‘fearful’ of using cancer services
Fears that their data would be shared with the Home Office following the Windrush scandal left some people from ethnic minorities afraid to access cancer services during the pandemic, an NHS England document has revealed.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The biggest job in hospital-land
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsExclusive: Shared chief executive and chair for trusts with £2bn plus turnover
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of more than £2bn will share a chief executive and chair from June, HSJ understands.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts pay £15m to Serco in fallout from pathology deal
Two trusts have paid an outsourcing firm £15m to leave the joint venture which has provided their pathology services over the last 10 years, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMajor trust extends insourcing of catering, cleaning and portering staff
A major hospital trust has extended the in-housing of hotel services across its sites, after the success of a one-year trial.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Greensill and the big catch-up
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsGreensill-owned NHS pay-advance firm goes into administration
An NHS agency has stepped in, as a company owned by collapsed finance firm Greensill that offered pay advances to more than 10,000 NHS staff has also gone into administration.
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NewsNHSE director: It could take a year for cancer services to return to normal
NHS England’s cancer director has said it could take another year for the level of cancer treatments and diagnosis carried out to return to normal, after being impeded by covid-19.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: What I’d want to know if I was an MP
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsTrust with ‘suffocating prohibition on speaking plainly’ loses case against senior manager
A tribunal has ruled a senior manager with a ‘blemish-free’ record was unfairly sacked, with the judge raising concerns about the trust’s ‘policing of language’.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Put an ICU clinician in PPE on a plinth
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.