National radiotherapy plan 'impossible to realise' without more funding
Consolidation of radiotherapy services “will be impossible” without more money, a royal college has warned.
London trusts to lose £300m after tariff change
NHS trusts in London have criticised proposed changes to the national payment tariff which would cut their income by an estimated £300m.
Some DGH chiefs paid more than CEOs at largest trusts
Fifteen trust chief executives were paid at yearly rates of more than £250,000 last year, including several in the north east running district general hospitals, according to HSJ analysis.
London Eye: Rating the Russell era
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
London Eye: Q2
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
Trusts move to block neighbour's multimillion relocation plan
Two hospital trusts have submitted a proposal that would stop a neighbour selling land worth hundreds of millions and relocating.
HSJ Awards 2018: Acute or Specialist Services Redesign (London and the South)
When staff at Imperial College Healthcare Trust invited feedback on services for children, they were given a valuable summary of the issues from the patient and carer perspective. “My health visitor told me to do one thing and the hospital told me something else. It’s confusing,” reported one respondent. Said ...
HSJ Awards 2018: Acute Sector Innovation
More men are being diagnosed with prostate cancer than ever before and yet it is the third biggest cause of cancer deaths in the UK. Standard practice has been for transrectal biopsies – intended to confirm the presence of prostate cancer – to be performed without an MRI scan having ...
London Eye: Lab's labours lost?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
London trusts to pay for thousands of EU staff's ‘settled status’
Trusts across London have confirmed they will reimburse EU staff applying for settled status to live in the UK after Brexit.
Major tertiary provider restricts out-of-area referrals
A major London teaching hospital has restricted referrals from out-of-area in response to unprecedented demand for its services.
London Eye: No white smoke
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
Exclusive: Genomic trusts named but 18 months from full operation
Seven hub trusts and 27 partners have been selected to be part of a high profile new genomic test network, but will not be fully operational for a further 18 months.
London Eye: Who will be the capital's new NHS boss?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
‘Kangaroo courts’ shame the NHS
Equivocal measures of the NHS to deal with workforce whistleblowers need to be overhauled and replaced with processes based on simple principles of fairness. By Narinder Kapur
Suicide nurse 'treated unfairly' by trust, inquiry reveals
An independent investigation has criticised an NHS trust and its staff for “unfairly” treating a senior nurse who went on to be dismissed before killing himself by setting himself on fire in 2016.
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Systems
Winner West of England Academic Health Science Network: Regional programme to improve the reliability of recognition and response to the deteriorating patient
Winners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2018
Twenty organisations have been honoured in the 2018 HSJ Value Awards – which recognise and celebrate outstanding improvements in care quality and efficiency made by NHS staff.
Year-plus waiters rise 75 per cent
The number of patients waiting a year or more for elective treatment has risen by 75 per cent year-on-year, NHS Improvement data confirms.