Lawrence Dunhill
| Lawrence joined HSJ in May 2015, after four years reporting on the NHS for regional newspapers in Lancashire and Buckinghamshire. He was shortlisted for the regional journalist of the year award by the Medical Journalists Association in 2014, and for a national award by the Professional Publishers Association in 2017. Nationally, his work is focused on finance and funding, while the areas he covers are Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire. |
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- lawrence.dunhill@wilmingtonhealthcare.com
NewsNHSE: ‘Blurred lines’ in NHS structure may pose fraud risk
Structural changes to NHS organisations and GPs’ involvement in primary care commissioning may have increased the risk of financial fraud, an NHS England report has warned.
- HSJ Local
Trust appoints seventh CEO in four years
A small acute trust in the north west has appointed its seventh chief executive in four years.
- HSJ Local
FT seeks merger to avoid ‘patient safety risks’
A mental health trust is preparing to seek a merger or acquisition by another provider in a bid to address its financial challenges, HSJ has learned.
- HSJ Local
Eight CCGs to merge to make ‘really tricky decisions’
System leaders have drawn up plans to merge eight clinical commissioning groups into one organisation, to take some “really tricky decisions”.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: Going electronic
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. Contact me in confidence here.
- HSJ Local
Trust seeks £300m for unfinished Carillion hospital
An acute trust is set to ask government for £300m to complete building works on a former Carillion hospital, a meeting was told, after engineers identified a series of problems with the structure.
- HSJ Local
Hundreds of outsourced staff strike for ‘fair pay’
Outsourced support staff at two teaching hospitals have begun two days of strike action over their pay rates.
- HSJ Local
CMA clears acute trust mega merger after two months
The Competition and Markets Authority has cleared the planned merger of two acute trusts in Liverpool after the first stage of its approval process.
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Revealed: The trusts which successfully challenged their CQC ratings
Three NHS providers successfully challenged the Care Quality Commission to improve their draft inspection rating last year.
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Funding boost for hospices promised by PM is not new money
The £25m promised by Boris Johnson to hospices and palliative care services will come from existing NHS budgets and may require efficiencies in other areas, HSJ has been told.
- HSJ Local
Specialist trust now providing a fifth of all NHS private patient work
A specialist cancer trust increased its income from private patients by £17m last year, while the service as a whole saw non-NHS healthcare revenues rise by 6 per cent.
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'New' capital funds will come from trust's own reserves
The capital spending announced by Boris Johnson will be largely funded by cash reserves already held by NHS providers, a letter to the service confirms.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: Capital boosts
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- News
NHS trusts owe government £14bn
Heavily-indebted NHS providers are bidding to restructure their loans with the Department of Health and Social Care, albeit with little prospect of them being written off.
- HSJ Local
FT’s record keeping cited as a concern by five inquests since 2016
Investigations into patient deaths at a teaching trust in Lancashire have repeatedly raised similar concerns around the quality of care records and information sharing.
- HSJ Local
Chief executive makes bid to lead second trust
Creating a “chain” model and shared leadership between providers in Lancashire could enable crucial reconfiguration of clinical services to finally move forward, an acute trust chief executive has told HSJ.
- HSJ Local
Acute trust’s BME staff feel ‘ignored and disenfranchised’
Black and minority ethnic staff at Blackpool hospitals trust feel “ignored and disenfranchised”, saying management has failed to deal with concerns about racist language.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: No case to answer
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Twenty big NHS building projects that need Boris’ cash
With the new prime minister poised to announce NHS building projects, HSJ has identified 20 of the most significant hospital infrastructure schemes that require big injections of capital funding, often to address pressing problems with care quality.
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Exclusive: Capital billions promised by ministers fail to reach ‘front line’
Only a fraction of the £2.5bn of capital funding announced and allocated by the government for the NHS since 2017 has actually been released to the service.
