All KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FT articles – Page 2
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NewsNeighbouring providers aid cyber attack victim
Two pathology networks are coming to the aid of a neighbour, still largely paralysed following an unprecedented cyber attack on its IT system earlier this month.
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NewsPleas from services crippled by cyber attack rejected due to lack of capacity
London pathology providers are “running too hot” to give enough support to the large system hit by a cyber attack last week, HSJ has been told.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: No end in sight after ‘evil’ attack
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsCardiac surgery and maternity displaced by cyber attack
Cardiac surgery and complex maternity cases are among the work the hospitals hit by a cyber attack earlier this week have been forced to transfer to other providers, HSJ understands.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Held to ransom
The NHS is facing weeks of disruption after pathology services across south east London were hit by a major cyber attack this week, affecting care from blood tests to transplants.
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News‘Weeks of disruption’ expected from cyber attack
A cyber attack is expected to cause disruption for at least several weeks to hospitals and primary care serving a population of at least two million people, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The NHS in the election campaign
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News‘Decomposing bodies’ discovered at multiple hospitals
Bodies are being left to deteriorate and in some cases decompose in hospital mortuaries, often because of a lack of freezer space, HSJ has found.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Trusts regularly breaching security standards
Twenty one serious security failures at hospital mortuaries were discovered by the Human Tissues Authority between April 2022 and March 2024, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTwo more trusts get ‘mandated intensive support’ over deficits
Two large hospital trusts have been put into NHS England’s “recovery support programme” and placed on the lowest rung of its oversight ratings.
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NewsEx-CQC boss to lead £85m deficit trust
A former Care Quality Commission chief executive is to take over as chair of a high-profile trust with long-running financial problems.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Two top trust CEOs tell us ‘hospital groups are here to stay’
Two successful NHS hospital chief executives join the HSJ Health Check podcast to talk about the sometimes contentious spread of the ‘group model’ and joint leadership of trusts – which, they argue, is here to stay.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The reality behind NHSE’s flagship outpatient programme
This week for the first time a study has revealed the number of patients on PIFU pathways has not translated into a significant reduction in follow-up appointments.
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NewsChair quits after trust admits £90m deficit
The chair of a major teaching hospital trust has quit after the organisation saw its deficit double in size.
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NewsTrusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.
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NewsFive trust CEOs were paid more than £300,000 last year
Several trust chief executives were paid more than £300,000 in 2022-23, including adjustments for previous underpayments, pay in lieu of pension contributions, and redundancy packages.
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NewsThirteen trusts write off £1.3m in overpayments to staff
Thirteen trusts were responsible for just over half of £2.6m overpayments to staff written off by NHS providers last year, data obtained by HSJ reveals.
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NewsRevealed: Urgent treatment centres with the longest wait times
Patients at many urgent treatment centres face significantly longer wait times than those set out in NHS England targets, according to internal data.
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NewsSystem agrees 10% bed base increase to ease A&E crisis
An integrated care system is planning to open between 70 and 100 addtional mental health beds to deal with a crisis in capacity.
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News‘Excess deaths’ due to A&E delays rise by nearly a third in one year
Long waits in A&E departments may have caused around 30,000 ‘excess deaths’ last year, according to new estimates.