All articles by Ben Clover – Page 4
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NewsBasic security measure would have prevented disastrous cyber attack
A major cyber attack which caused months of disruption across NHS services in south London would have been thwarted if the affected system had been protected by a basic IT security process, HSJ has learned.
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CEO InterviewCEO interview: Ben Travis, chief executive, Lewisham and Greenwich Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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NewsRevealed: Dozens more children harmed after care failures
Dozens more children have suffered harm due to failings in audiology services, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsICB chief takes early retirement
An integrated care board chief executive is retiring after eight years in top commissioning roles.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Lessons from the Thirlwall inquiry
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsLetby managers: We weren’t slow to act
Former senior managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital have told the public inquiry into murders of babies that “given the information with which we were provided, we acted appropriately at the time”.
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NewsICB ‘a hindrance’ to improving services after Grenfell
An integrated care board has faced significant criticism that it ‘to this day’ refuses to listen to the Grenfell Tower survivors and has been a ‘hindrance’ to improving services
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Who gets what
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsHospital reconfigurations ‘negatively impacting’ patients, warn government advisers
Clinical service reconfigurations are mostly driven by the “poor condition of [the] NHS estate” and a lack of staff rather than a desire to “improve clinical outcomes”, advisers to the Department of Health and Social Care have said.
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NewsWhistleblowing nurse no longer trusts the NHS
A trust must pay a whistleblowing nurse £14,000 in damages and lost earnings, a judge has ordered.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The next big NHS care scandal?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Getting past the ‘bitter animosity’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsTurnover down £160m for agency staffing firm
Turnover and profits are down at the NHS’s biggest supplier of agency staff.
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NewsIT outage still disrupting services after region declared ‘critical incident’
Disruption to GP services is expected to continue this week, while London had to declare a “critical incident” over the Microsoft outage.
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NewsAI could solve ‘disgraceful’ structural problems, says minister
Artificial intelligence could be used to figure out the causes of “disgraceful” structural problems like the higher rates of maternal mortality for black women, a minister told a conference yesterday.
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NewsIT outages hit thousands of services
Thousands of GP practices – and some other localised services – are without their IT systems today, due to global outages also affecting banking, media and aviation.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: From shared chair to where?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsChair of £3bn trusts stands down
The chair of two large hospital trusts has stepped down after taking up a ministerial job with the new Labour government.
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NewsTrust ‘forced out’ senior doctor who raised safety concerns
A prestigious teaching hospital constructively dismissed the head of its transplant unit after he raised safety concerns about Great Ormond Street Hospital, a tribunal heard.
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NewsPathology deal extended with cyber attack provider
A cancer hospital has extended its contract with the company hit by the high-profile cyber attack which paralysed part of London’s pathology service last month.