Lawrence Dunhill
Lawrence joined HSJ in May 2015, after several years reporting on the NHS for regional newspapers, mainly in Lancashire. He reports on the North West region, but also specialises in national policy and finances.
He was named specialist journalist of the year at the Press Gazette’s British Journalism Awards in 2020, for his work reporting on the coronavirus pandemic, and won 'scoop of the year' at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards in 2021.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 020 7608 9058
- Email:
- lawrence.dunhill@wilmingtonhealthcare.com
HSJ LocalBlowing whistle on trust CEO ‘hardest thing I’ve had to do’, says his successor
A trust chief who blew the whistle on her predecessor’s ‘aggressive’ behaviour and lack of interest in patient safety says it was the hardest thing she has had to do in her career.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: The place is the thing
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- HSJ Local
Trust’s pension fix refusal risks wave of doctor resignations
A ‘significant flurry’ of senior doctors will look to retire after a trust rejected a scheme designed to avoid higher taxes on their pensions, according to internal emails.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: Leading ICS sits bottom of activity rankings
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- HSJ Local
Trust CEO steps down after almost two decades
A trust chief executive who has been in post for 19 years has announced he is stepping down.
- News
Revealed: The ethnically diverse trusts with all-white leadership
Analysis of new data has identified multiple trusts which appear to have no executives or very senior managers from a minority ethnic background, despite their workforces being relatively diverse.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: Christie rebuffs NHSE and refuses to apologise
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- HSJ Local
A&E patients waiting more than two days for a bed, warns leaked letter
A clinical director and several senior managers have written to a trust CEO warning that patients are routinely waiting more than 60 hours to be admitted to a ward from accident and emergency, leaving staff “crying with frustration and anger”.
- HSJ Local
Former hospital chief hired to lead ICS
A former hospital trust chief is set to be appointed chair of one of the largest integrated care boards.
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Ambulance waits hit two hours for heart attacks and strokes
Average waits for an ambulance for stroke and heart attack patients have reached as long as two hours in one region, after a further fall in performance in recent weeks, HSJ can reveal.
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Free parking for NHS staff to end on Thursday
The government has confirmed its funding for free parking for NHS staff will end on Thursday, HSJ has learned.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: Merger ‘kicked into long grass’ amid warring departments
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- HSJ Local
Councils always ‘leader of place’, says top health system
A prominent integrated care board has set out various options for how to structure its local leadership teams – but stressed councils will be the leaders of ‘place’.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: Trusts pick EPR firm just ditched by ICS partner
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- News
Ditching Russian gas could leave the NHS with a huge bill
The health secretary’s order for the NHS to excise Russian and Belarusian firms from its supply chain this week came with an acknowledgement that it may not be immediately possible to end contracts with suppliers.
- HSJ Local
Exclusive: ‘Angry’ NHSE pressures prestigious trust to make ‘public apology’
NHS England is trying to force a prestigious cancer trust to publicly apologise to a group of whistleblowers, after being ‘shocked’ by the way it responded to a review into their concerns.
- HSJ Local
ICS appoints chief executive after second try
A senior Whitehall official is set to be the new chief executive of Greater Manchester’s health system, HSJ has learned.
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Trusts routinely bank income as ‘savings’, contrary to NHSE claim
Financial data obtained by HSJ shows trusts have routinely used additional income received from NHS commissioners to boost their reported ‘cost improvements’ – despite regulators claiming this did not happen.
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Health secretary calls on NHS to stop buying Russian gas
The health secretary has told the NHS to stop using the UK arm of Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom as a gas supplier.
- Expert Briefing
North by North West: Ambulance crisis being shrugged off
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