All KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FT articles – Page 18
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News
CCG wins legal battle over contract suspension
A clinical commissioning group has won a legal battle to award a contract for work that had already been given to other providers under the trust special administration process.
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Supplements
The benefits of going back to the books
Returning to education can widen career opportunities
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News
Analysis: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
Providers are increasingly willing to use the procurement, patient choice and competition regulations to challenge decisions, experts have stated, after HSJ analysis identified six of the first legal challenges to emerge.
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HSJ Local
Eye clinic plans paused following King's complaint
Plans for Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust to open an eye clinic at a hospital in Kent have been paused after another trust complained that no procurement process had taken place.
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Blogs
And so it begins: the decline of 18 week waits
The waiting list usually shrinks from August to December. Not this time. The waiting list now looks set to pass the 3 million mark around Easter, and there is a risk of England-wide 18 week breaches this year.
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HSJ Local
Eight patients left on trolleys for over 12 hours
Eight patients at King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust were left to wait on a trolley for over 12 hours over the Christmas period, according to NHS England data.
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News
Updated: Full list of NHS recipients of honours
The chief executive of Salford Royal Foundation Trust has been awarded a knighthood in the new year’s honours list.
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News
Competition rules still impeding service change, say hospital bosses
Hospital chief executives still feel the competition and merger control rules introduced under the government’s NHS reforms are making it difficult to carry out important reconfigurations.
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News
Trust super-merger shelved
A merger that would have created the largest provider organisation in England has been shelved.
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Comment
Robotic devices can be the future of surgery
Robotic surgery can produce amazing patient outcomes
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HSJ Local
Agency spending soars at King's College Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust’s spending on agency nursing staff has increased by 71 per cent since the same last point last year.
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News
Nursing shortage drives hospitals overseas
More than a third of hospital trusts have turned to actively recruiting nurses from overseas as they struggle to keep wards adequately staffed, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
King's asks for £3.1m in Project Diamond cash
FINANCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust has asked for £3.1m in Project Diamond funding in 2014-15.
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Comment
How to design seven-day care for tomorrow’s consultants
A medical student reveals the possible benefits
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Blogs
English waiting list peaking just below 3 million
The English waiting list peaks just below 3 million: the largest reported list size since April 2008. But 18 weeks performance remains steady.
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News
Three applicants seek academic health science centre status
Three partnerships between hospital trusts and medical schools are bidding to be accredited as academic health science centres, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Local
King's College breaks even
FINANCE: A report from King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust reveals the trust received £6.5m from PCTs to cover “winter pressures” in 2012-13.
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HSJ Local
King's College Hospital Foundation Trust above target on pressure sores
PERFORMANCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust failed to hit its target number of pressure ulcers in month one, board papers reveal.