All articles by Ben Clover – Page 68
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NewsRegulator to cap Queen's Hospital A&E admissions
The Care Quality Commission is to place a restriction on the number of patients that can be treated at an east London emergency department.
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NewsHunt compromises on Lewisham Hospital downgrade
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a compromise solution to the downgrade of services at Lewisham Hospital.
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News'No correlation found' between quality and responsiveness to online complaints
Researchers have found no correlation between trusts’ responsiveness to online complaints and the quality of patients’ experience.
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NewsGrounds for legal action if hospital downgrade approved, critics claim
A judicial review is likely if health secretary Jeremy Hunt approves plans to downgrade Lewisham Hospital, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsAnalysed: The fate of Lewisham Hospital
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at the south east London health economy, which is the first to be subject to the failure regime.
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NewsBurnham plans £60bn NHS cash handover to councils
The vast majority of NHS funding would be handed to councils under radical proposals being developed by the shadow health secretary.
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NewsNHS earmarks £300m to put hospitals through failure regime
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are planning a £300m joint contract to pay for failing trusts to go through the special administration regime.
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NewsMid Staffs Foundation Trust 'too small' to be sustainable
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust − the first organisation to be taken through Monitor’s failure regime − will not be able to sustain its current services in the future, investigators have found.
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NewsNineteen trusts will have less than a year to become FTs
The NHS Trust Development Authority has conceded that more than a third of the organisations which intend to become standalone foundation trusts will not have submitted their applications to it by April.
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NewsTrust failed to check paediatric staff criminal records for three years
Managers at Barts and the London Trust were unable to guarantee paediatric staff had passed Criminal Records Bureau checks for three years, following a series of human resources failings, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust found to have altered waiting times figures
A large hospital trust has been caught altering waiting time figures to avoid breaches of the four-hour accident and emergency target.
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NewsEpsom hospital pulled into A&E reconfiguration programme
Another hospital has been added to the list of those on the south west London and Surrey borders that could lose their accident and emergency and maternity facilities, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrusts get chance to push back FT application dates
Trusts are being asked to re-submit their target dates for attaining foundation status amid new evidence that significant numbers will fail to complete the process by the original deadline.
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NewsKershaw backs dissolution of South London Healthcare
South London Healthcare Trust should be dissolved, its special administrator recommended this morning.
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Social enterprise consults lawyers over lost out-of-hours contract
A social enterprise has consulted lawyers after losing the contract to supply GP out-of-hours services in two London boroughs to a Bristol-based company.
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Trust refers 248 staff to debt collectors following salary overpayments
Barts and the London Trust referred 248 of its staff to debt collectors after overpaying them by a total of £1m last year, documents obtained by HSJ reveal.
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NewsChief executives and chairs in New Year's Honours list
Three hospital trust chief executives have received New Year’s honours.
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NewsChief executives not confident on out-of-hours safety
Chief executives have significant doubts their hospitals are as safe at weekends as they are in the week, the latest HSJ/Capsticks survey reveals.
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NewsFT wins Ministry of Defence contract to serve British troops
England’s largest foundation trust has won a £365m contract to continue providing healthcare services to the British army in Germany.