London Eye: Lab's labours lost?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
Greater Manchester eyes 52 NHS sites for 1,700 new homes
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London Eye: No white smoke
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
London Eye: Who will be the capital's new NHS boss?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
Trust rejects full hospital group membership
A trust has rejected an offer to become a full member of a neighbouring hospital group amid concerns about “cherry picking”, stability and the loss of clinical services.
The impact of integrated care systems
The long term NHS plan should set out a road map for the future and earmark resources to accelerate the improvements in health and care that ICSs are leading, writes Chris Ham
Council chief executive set to lead CCG
The chief executive of a council in Greater Manchester is set to take over the leadership of the local clinical commissioning group, HSJ has learned.
David Dalton: Use NHS trusts not management consultants to solve problems
The NHS should stop spending money on management consultants and instead pay well performing trusts to help turnaround troubled organisations, Sir David Dalton has told HSJ.
'We shouldn't treat trust CEOs like football managers', says NHSI boss
NHS Improvement boss Ian Dalton says there is a “slight crisis” in leadership across the health service, and there “needs to be a difference between being a football manager and being a chief executive”.
Sloman replaced as accountable officer at 'group' trust
The chief executive of a “vanguard” hospital group has been replaced as accountable officer at one of its member trusts.
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Clinical Governance and Risk Management in Patient Safety
Winner Walsall Healthcare Trust: An integrated approach of changing cultures in clinical governance/patient safety
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Infection Prevention and Control
Winner Cyprus University of Technology – Limassol General Hospital: Should CDC’s recommendations for promptly removing unnecessary central venous catheters be enhanced?
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Patient Safety in the Community
Winner East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust: Cycle response unit in Northampton town
North by North West: Greater Manchester's Achilles' heel
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Revealed: Greater Manchester plans major hospital services shake-up
New plans to reconfigure more than two-thirds of acute services across Greater Manchester are expected to be outlined later this year, the leader of its devolution team has said.
Making demand and capacity planning more robust
Paul Stroner gives an update on a programme by NHS England and NHS Improvement that aims to improve demand and capacity modelling in elective care
Trainee doctors raise safety concerns over 'double bleep carrying'
Serious safety concerns have been raised by junior doctors who have had to carry two on-call “bleeps” due to staffing shortages at a struggling acute trust.
North by North West: Best and worst from the staff survey
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'Incredible' CQC upgrade is endorsement of hospital group model
Sir David Dalton says a troubled hospital trust in Greater Manchester has made “incredible” improvements, despite receiving only a “fraction” of the financial support offered to struggling trusts in the south east.
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.