All articles by Ben Clover – Page 26
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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.
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NewsFormer finance watchdog to chair PM's local trust
The former head of the National Audit Office Sir Amyas Morse has been appointed chair of a hospital trust.
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NewsTrust must pay £96k to sacked worker after ‘appalling’ HR message
An ambulance trust has been ordered to pay £96,000 to a wrongfully dismissed employee after a tribunal branded its response to his concerns as “appalling”.
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NewsTrusts hire ‘big four’ consultants to advise on joint working
Two mental health trusts have hired management consultants to look at how they can be more involved in joint working, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMental health and acute trust seek joint chief executive
A mental health trust and one of England’s worst performing acute trusts have announced they will come together under a “group model”.
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HSJ LocalNew chief exec for ‘outstanding’ hospital trust
A hospital trust rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission has appointed a new chief executive.
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NewsRevealed: Two regions dominate rankings for late cancer diagnosis
Just two regions account for nine of the 10 worst performing clinical commissioning groups for late detection of cancer, according to official data.
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HSJ LocalNHS books hotels for staff as Kent braces for no-deal Brexit ‘Armageddon’
The NHS in Kent is block-booking hotel rooms for staff and planning with police to get workers and patients through “gridlocked roads” to hospitals as part of preparations for a no-deal Brexit “Armageddon”.
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NewsGovernment’s new training funding ‘not enough’
The chancellor today confirmed a real terms increase in the NHS education and training budget next year – but was warned this is “not enough to tackle the workforce crisis”.
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NewsGovernment pledges £1,000 ‘personal development budgets’ for NHS
The chancellor has promised an increase in planned spending on NHS staff development, which he says will pay for £1,000 “personal development budgets” for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.
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NewsAudit rule changes ‘could increase costs to NHS’
Proposals designed to make annual audits more insightful could increase costs for clinical commissioning groups and trusts, the National Audit Office has said.