All articles by Ben Clover – Page 22
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News£170k charge on whistleblower will not deter others claims tribunal
A consultant surgeon must pay an NHS trust £170,000 after he lost a whistleblowing case on appeal.
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NewsManager wins short-staffing whistleblowing case
A manager has won his employment tribunal against a patient transport company he alleged had misled clients over staffing.
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NewsConsultancy appoints former trust chief
Consultancy firm Grant Thornton has appointed a former trust chief executive as head of healthcare advisory.
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NewsUpdate: 24 patients come to harm after waiting list failings
A teaching hospital has discovered more than 630 patients which it failed to follow up “as a result of a high turnover of locums and failure of a trust process”.
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NewsNHSE to take oversight of £600m screening programmes from PHE
Public Health England is to be stripped of its responsibility for overseeing the national cancer screening programme, the government has confirmed.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: ‘An unusually high degree of flexibility’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts with the highest cataract complication rates
Several trusts have taken action after recording high rates of complications for cataract surgery, while others have disputed the figures, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsFinance manager jailed for fraud must repay £220,000
A senior finance manager convicted of fraud must repay £220,000 or face another three years in jail, a judge has ruled.
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NewsIndependent review ‘may cause surgeons to stop work’
The hospital trust at the centre of a governance scandal has warned that some of its surgeons may stop working when an independent review into one of its specialist units is published.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Hurricane heart
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsManager wrongly sacked amid theft row, tribunal heard
A GP unfairly dismissed her practice manager, a tribunal has found, after the manager and her mother gave themselves large unauthorised pay rises.
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NewsGovernment earmarks £200m capital for diagnostic equipment
The government has brought forward a spending announcement, promising an extra £200m to improve the cancer scanning and diagnostic capacity of the NHS over the next 18 months.
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NewsTrust approves ‘rapid growth’ plan for overseas work
A leading mental health trust is creating a joint venture organisation to develop its commercial work, including private care in the Middle East and potentially China.
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NewsRevealed: 275 jobs to go as NHS England and Improvement cut costs
NHS England and NHS Improvement will shed 654 posts under cost reduction plans revealed this morning.
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NewsTeaching trust flagged as cancer outlier two years in a row
A teaching hospital has redesigned part of its cancer service after being flagged as an outlier in two national clinical audits.
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HSJ LocalVirgin Care and NHS partner win £85m contract
Virgin Care and an NHS provider have won an £85m joint community services project.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Chairs around the clockface
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsRevealed: The CCGs where cancer referral is slowest
One London borough has nearly double the national average rate on an indicator that general practice is missing the early signs of cancer.
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NewsTwo more hospital trusts announce shared boss
Two hospital trusts today announced they will share a chair – the latest in a string of shared leadership moves among NHS providers, especially in London.