London Eye: Five go chief exec-ing
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
Major shake-up of child cancer services ordered by NHS England
NHS England has finally ordered a major shake-up of paediatric cancer services in London after a long-running battle which saw national cancer director Cally Palmer accused of being ‘hugely conflicted’ because of her dual role as the chief executive of the trust at the centre of the storm.
London Eye: A different picture
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
Trusts write off £50m in overseas patient debt
Hospital trusts in London wrote off £54m in bad debts from overseas visitors over the last two years, annual accounts reveal.
Hospital trust makes chief permanent after two years
England’s most high-profile hospital trust has appointed its interim chief executive on a permanent basis after two years.
London Eye: Forgetting the war that’s still happening
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
Revealed: The best and worst trusts to be a junior doctor
HSJ analysis of data from the latest General Medical Council national training survey has revealed the top and bottom trusts for overall experience for junior doctors.
HSJ Value Awards 2021: People and Organisational Development Initiative of the Year
The BHRUT Academy of Surgery is an innovative training pathway to attract non-training doctors wishing to pursue a surgical career. The surgical directorate offers a two-year structured educational programme with an associated fully funded MSc in our “Academy of Surgery”. This was designed to recruit, train and retain junior doctors ...
More than a dozen trust chairs receive two salaries as shared leadership spreads
Sixteen people are now chairing more than one NHS trust, but there is significant variation in how much they are paid for their extra roles, an HSJ analysis has found.
NHS’ promotion of 111 First ‘not strong enough’, watchdog warns
Not enough people know about the 111 First A&E booking service as the messaging from the NHS ‘has not been strong enough’, Healthwatch England has said.
Amanda Pritchard appointed as NHS England chief executive
Amanda Pritchard has been appointed as the next NHS England chief executive.
Hospital brings cleaning and catering in-house to ‘support minority ethnic communities’
An acute trust has brought their cleaning and catering contracts back in house to boost workforce equality and support staff from minority ethnic communities.
London Eye: Irreparable sight loss
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
Funding setback for tech roll-out at major acute trust
Plans to extend a new electronic patient record to one of London’s major acute providers have suffered a setback after an attempt to access unused national capital funding was abandoned.
London Eye: The biggest job in hospital-land
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
Exclusive: Shared chief executive and chair for trusts with £2bn plus turnover
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of more than £2bn will share a chief executive and chair from June, HSJ understands.
Major trust urges staff to take one-off PCR test amid local ‘surge’ testing
A major London trust has urged all staff who work on its sites to take a one-off covid PCR test “as soon as possible” amid surge testing in local areas.
Revealed: Trusts pay £15m to Serco in fallout from pathology deal
Two trusts have paid an outsourcing firm £15m to leave the joint venture which has provided their pathology services over the last 10 years, HSJ can reveal.
Two major hospitals share ex-Unilever boss as director
A former Unilever boss is now a permanent director at two major London providers.
Trusts drop business rates battle against councils
Eleven NHS trusts have dropped a long-running bid to pay business rates at a discount usually reserved for charities, according to the Local Government Association.