Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Foundation Trust

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Five trust CEOs were paid more than £300,000 last year

2024-01-18T12:33:00+00:00

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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Surgeon CEO takes on interim role leading second trust

2024-01-03T05:52:00+00:00

The CEO of a children’s hospital trust has taken an interim role leading a general acute provider in the same system, whose substantive chief is “undertaking an assignment with NHS London on provider collaboratives”.

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Radiographers warn next strike could hit 100 trusts

2023-08-02T04:41:00+01:00

The Society of Radiographers is considering reballoting members in an effort to significantly increase the scope of its industrial action, the union’s director of industrial strategy has told HSJ.

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Private income boost set to cover £16.5m gap in trust’s finance plan

2023-07-11T05:08:00+01:00

Great Ormond Street is planning to increase its private income by more than half this financial year to plug half of a projected £32.5m gap in its finances.

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Exclusive: 800 consultants refuse to cover juniors strike without extra pay

2023-06-07T09:09:00+01:00

More than 800 consultants in London have signed a letter saying they will not cover the junior doctors’ strike next week unless their trusts agree to pay a higher overtime rate set by the British Medical Association.

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Revealed: Best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food

2023-04-11T11:39:00+01:00

The best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food have been revealed in a national assessment by patients and staff.

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Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target

2022-11-23T06:00:00+00:00

Only one in five trusts has reached the level of digitisation required by 2025 – more than three years after the target was set, tech chiefs have revealed.

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London Eye: The nursing walkout isn't really about pay

2022-11-16T09:19:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Trust’s future under question as specialist service shut down

2022-07-28T14:56:00+01:00

NHS England is closing the current gender identity clinic for children and young people following a critical independent review, replacing it with two new services in London and the North West of England.

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Trust defends research work after 'half hospital, half science lab’ claims

2022-07-21T08:00:00+01:00

The medical director of a prestigious teaching hospital has said innovation must not come at the cost of safe care, after an external review highlighted concerns about the trust’s research culture.

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‘Innovation put over safety’ at world-famous hospital

2022-07-07T10:22:00+01:00

A world-famous hospital has a culture where some staff may put research interests above patient safety, according to an external investigation.

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Trusts left with valueless company shares given in exchange for patient data

2022-07-01T03:51:00+01:00

Several NHS trusts are reviewing their data-sharing agreements with a technology company after their shares in the firm were rendered currently worthless following its financial collapse

Ben clover expert briefing

London Eye: The city with one in eight on a waiting list

2022-06-29T12:36:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Major shake-up of child cancer services ordered by NHS England

2021-11-11T19:17:00+00:00

NHS England has finally ordered a major shake-up of paediatric cancer services in London after a long-running battle which saw national cancer director Cally Palmer accused of being ‘hugely conflicted’ because of her dual role as the chief executive of the trust at the centre of the storm.

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Deaths of two children spark ‘urgent’ investigations at leading trust

2021-10-25T05:02:00+01:00

Five serious incidents, including the deaths of two children, have sparked ‘urgent’ investigations into the processes through which clinicians are alerted to potential safety concerns over medical products used on patients.

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Revealed: The best and worst trusts to be a junior doctor

2021-09-08T10:00:00+01:00

HSJ analysis of data from the latest General Medical Council national training survey has revealed the top and bottom trusts for overall experience for junior doctors.

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: Paediatric Care Initiative of the Year

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

The Asthma and Wheeze Project is overseen by the integrated borough-based partnership “Tower Hamlets Together” and sought to significantly reduce non-elective admissions of children and young people with asthma and wheeze to the Royal London Hospital. As a system the project mapped the primary and secondary drivers for admissions and ...

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: Operations and Performance Initiative of the Year

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

Provision of an integrated system to work within the electronic patient record capturing prospective and retrospective clinical priority for patients waiting for appointments, investigations and treatment. This was a hospital-wide need affecting all specialties and service providers and all current and newly referred patients.

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Neighbouring ICSs plan single hospital IT system

2021-08-05T11:40:00+01:00

Five trusts across two integrated care systems are drawing up plans to roll out a single electronic patient record funded by the government’s flagship infrastructure project.

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Medway chief executive to join NHS Confederation

2021-04-15T13:15:00+01:00

The chief executive who is leaving Medway Foundation Trust is to take up a new role at the NHS Confederation.