‘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.
London Eye: What awaits Imperial's new chief executive?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
Exclusive: New chief executive for Shelford Group trust
A new chief executive has been appointed to one of UK’s most high profile hospital organisations, HSJ can reveal.
Trusts singled out for failing at 'bog standard' IT
The failure of parts of the NHS to use “bog standard” IT is undermining the case to Treasury for more technology funding, an NHS England director has said.
Exclusive: Patients at risk as blood clot assessments decline
Thousands of hospital patients are being put at risk of developing deadly blood clots that cost the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds because of a failure to carry out a routine assessment.
Nutritional support for dementia patients
Alison Moore reports on how a nutritional support project at Imperial College Healthcare Trust won it the Acute Sector Innovation award
London Eye: Joint ventures to link acute and primary care
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
London Eye: A&E end of year report
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
Long waits soar as hospitals struggle to admit
Over one year waiters shot up by 20 per cent, as admission rates slumped in the face of record A&E pressures.
Shelford Group trust will run deficit for 'at least three more years'
A Shelford Group teaching hospital trust will run an underlying deficit until at least 2021-22, it predicts.
Best and worst hospitals in each area for staff recommending care
A breakdown by area of acute and combined trusts performance on the NHS staff survey, according to the share of employees who would recommend their organisation for work or care.
Highest and lowest trusts in each area for staff witnessing care mistakes
A breakdown by area of acute trusts by the share of staff saying they had witnessed potentially harmful errors, near misses or incidents in the last month, in the 2017 NHS staff survey.
More trusts using estates 'wheeze' to boost their finances
NHS trusts are increasingly revaluing their estate in a way that boosts their reported financial position, under encouragement from NHS Improvement.
In full: Pathology network proposals
HSJ approached the 29 pathology networks proposed by NHS Improvement to ask if local trusts had signed up. In most cases the proposed “hub” trust was able to answer on behalf of its network.
Former chief executive to chair troubled trust
A former chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare Trust has been appointed as chair at one of the country’s most troubled trusts.