Standalone community trusts meet safe staffing plans more often
One third of community hospitals missed their safe staffing plans every month for at least three years, HSJ analysis suggests.
CCG tenders £450m community services contract
Commissioners have tendered a £450m contract for community services in west London, which has sparked apparent interest from at least two NHS trusts and private provider Virgin Care.
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Organisation of the Year
Winner Central London Community Healthcare Trust: Simply the best, every time
Community trust director to lead acute hospital
The chief operating officer of a community trust has taken up her first chief executive post at a small district general hospital.
London Eye: Trusts without borders
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HSJ Partnership Awards 2018: Property and Estates Management Service of the Year
WINNER: Plan B Solutions Ltd: Half a Billion Pounds - Grasping the First Nettle
HSJ Partnership Awards 2018: Recruitment Services Provider of the Year
WINNER: Bank Partners (Part of the Independent Clinical Services Group): Reduction of Agency Spend at the Royal London Hospital (part of Barts Health Trust)
Revealed: Trusts performing worst against race equality target
Papworth Hospital Foundation Trust was the worst trust in England for racial bias in its formal disciplinary process last financial year.
CCGs spend millions on consultancy for stalled reconfiguration
Commissioners in north west London spent £36m on consultancy firms over the last four financial years – including millions on service redesign recently stalled by NHS Improvement.
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Teaching hospital loses community contracts
A London teaching hospital trust has lost multimillion community services contracts.
Trust chiefs staying a little longer in post - but 'need more support'
Chief executives of NHS providers are staying in the post for longer than they were three years ago, analysis by HSJ indicates.
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2017: Care of Older People
Lewisham and Greenwich Trust: A Safer Approach to Ethical Feeding Decisions
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2017: Improving Safety in Medicines Management
Care UK: Care UK – HMP Stafford – Repeat Prescriptions Management
Exclusive: Third of community hospitals miss staffing targets for two years
Nearly a third of NHS trusts running community hospitals have not met their targets for nurse staffing levels on wards for the past two years, HSJ analysis reveals.
Two-thirds of London trusts lack own procurement director
Only around a third of NHS trusts in London have their own permanent head of procurement or procurement director, HSJ research reveals.
Revealed: 23 trusts chosen for new Carter review
More than 20 trusts have been chosen to be part of a new NHS efficiency review led by Lord Carter.
London Eye: Zone four and beyond
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Revealed: New oversight ratings for every NHS trust
Regulators have published proposed new ratings for every NHS trust that reflect the seriousness of the problems they face.
Revealed: Ministers sign off £300k of pay rises for trust chairs
Ministers agreed nearly £300,000 in pay rises for the chairs of NHS trusts over the past year, HSJ can reveal.