All Cancer articles – Page 19
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Another joint chair for London?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2019: Cancer care initiative of the year
Winner Central North West London FT and University College London FT: The Oncology Symptom Control Unit
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NewsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2019 winners revealed
The winners of the 2019 Patient Safety Awards have been revealed.
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CommentCancer waiting times: We need to break the cycle
Dr Fran Woodard on how waiting standards continue to decline as cancer services buckle under pressure
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NewsExclusive: NHS England attempted to alter independent report on child cancer care
NHS England engaged in an unprecedented attempt to interfere with an independent clinical body’s report into child cancer services, seeking to have a recommendation on co-location of intensive care services removed, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust considers pre-booking private capacity to safeguard A&E performance
A trust is proposing an extended moratorium on elective care over Christmas 2019 and Easter 2020, and pre-booking outsourcing to private providers in an attempt to shore up emergency care performance and cut cancellations.
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NewsSir Mike Richards called in over child cancer row
Sir Mike Richards, former national cancer tsar and chief inspector of hospitals, has been asked by NHS England to carry out an independent review of child cancer standards.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Throwing your weight around
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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LeaderChildren with cancer need an end to the 10-year Marsden standoff
“The language of priorities is the religion of socialism” – and the NHS, Nye Bevan might have added.
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NewsSimon Stevens at meeting which decided not to publish controversial cancer report
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens was present at a meeting where a decision was taken not to publish a 2015 report which exposed concerns about children’s cancer care in London, minutes newly released to HSJ show.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE pressured us to protect ‘absurd’ cancer services, says top doctor
A leading doctor who served on an NHS England group tasked with designing new child cancer standards has told HSJ that changes to soften the proposals were “insisted on” by its officials.
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NewsClinicians were ‘pressured’ to change child cancer standards
Clinicians drawing up new clinical standards for child cancer services in the NHS faced “unwarranted pressure” from NHS England’s cancer team to soften their recommendations, three other experts in the field have said.
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NewsNational cancer director will ‘play no part’ in child service decisions
NHS England has said Cally Palmer, national cancer director and chief executive of the Royal Marsden Foundation Trust, will “play no part” in decisions on new child cancer standards.
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NewsFT outsources more than 100 patients to private sector for chemotherapy
A foundation trust is outsourcing more than 100 patients to a private facility for chemotherapy.
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NewsInvestigation: The cancer service failings covered up for years
Concerns about children’s cancer services in London have – in the words of one informed figure – been an “open secret” for almost a decade, and involved multiple reviews by experts and discussions at the highest levels.
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NewsFormer NHSE director: 'Pervasive influence' blocked children's cancer report
The previous NHS medical director for London has described how a “pervasive influence from the top” of NHS England thwarted his attempts to improve cancer care for children.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England ‘buried’ concerns over child cancer services
NHS England covered up serious problems with paediatric cancer care in London – which had seen children dying in “terrible agony” – and has “buried” attempts to overhaul the services, an HSJ investigation has established.
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NewsRevealed: CCGs with highest rates of lung cancer detected in A&E
Two counties have six of the 10 worst performing areas for having lung cancer picked up in A&E, new data reveals.
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NewsLung cancer death trust is an outlier on surgery
The trust at the centre of a lung cancer deaths scandal has been identified as an outlier for providing surgery on fewer early stage patients than is normal.
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Comment18 weeks “no longer important”?
English waiting times will continue to grow, indefinitely, until the NHS gets closer to keeping up with demand. By Rob Findlay