All Foundation trusts articles – Page 18
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HSJ Knowledge
Striking the balance between efficiency and quality of care
Improving services and patient outcomes can reduce costs
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS QUEST aims for best quality and safety standards
Fourteen trusts are focusing on key priority areas
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News
Bennett appointed to permanent chief executive role at Monitor
The Monitor board has appointed interim chief executive David Bennett to the permanent role at the foundation trust regulator.
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News
FTs 20pc short of savings target
Monitor will today reveal that foundation trusts missed savings targets by nearly 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2012-13.
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HSJ Knowledge
Opening up to close scrutiny
How mutual public governance can help safeguard patient care
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Comment
Readers' letters - 18 October 2012
Private patient units will be an important contributor to NHS trusts’ balance sheets
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News
Acute FTs push their workforce reductions back to 2013-14
Acute foundation trusts are planning to increase staff numbers by more than 2,500 this financial year, latest figures released to HSJ show.
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HSJ Knowledge
'A merger was our only viable option'
How the hospital where the NHS was launched merged with another organisation
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire trust puts back FT application date to April
STRUCTURE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust has agreed a revised timetable for submission of its application to become a foundation trust.
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Blogs
NHS enterprise has been given a freer rein
Absurd restrictions on FT income have at last been lifted
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News
New FTN chief calls for big cut in commissioner underspends
The new chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network has called for NHS commissioners to significantly cut the proportion of health funding they leave unspent.
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HSJ Knowledge
The profitability of private patients
NHS private patient units can compete with private hospitals
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HSJ Knowledge
New duties - are you ready?
Are we prepared for the implications of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 for governors?
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HSJ Knowledge
The power behind the chairs
Governors are becoming the lynchpins of greater local accountability
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News
Struggling FTs may face insolvency regime in 2013-14 - Hay
Monitor may need to place some NHS foundation trusts in administration as soon as 2013-14 – the first year its powers to do so take effect, the regulator’s chief operating officer has suggested.
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News
Revealed: extent of harm to patients under NHS care
More than 20 per cent of patients suffer avoidable harm during their care at some trusts, a national survey of frontline NHS services has revealed.
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News
One in 10 NHS appointments missed
One in 10 health appointments were missed last year, costing the NHS millions of pounds and delaying treatment for other patients, figures suggest.