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Best and worst trusts on maternity experience revealed by CQC

2024-11-29T07:05:00+00:00

The trusts where maternity experience has improved the most and deteriorated the furthest have been revealed by the Care Quality Commission.

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London Eye: It shouldn’t take a CQC inspection

2024-10-30T12:00:00+00:00

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

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London Eye: An 'incredibly difficult winter'

2024-10-16T12:38:00+01:00

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

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London Eye: Getting past the ‘bitter animosity’

2024-07-24T10:09:00+01:00

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

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London Eye: The NHS in the election campaign

2024-05-29T10:00:00+01:00

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

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent

2024-05-20T04:00:00+01:00

Fourty per cent of the £150m capital funding pot NHS England made available to incentivise urgent and emergency care improvements was not distributed, data shown to HSJ reveals.

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IT system which sparked safety alert dropped by 13 trusts

2024-04-12T04:30:00+01:00

More than a dozen trusts have changed their maternity IT system – or are in the process of doing so – following a national patient safety alert.

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

Thirty trusts report more 12-hour waits, despite national improvement

2024-02-27T12:43:00+00:00

Long A&E waits have got worse at more than one in five acute trusts, despite an improving trend nationally.

Construction building blueprint plans

Bid to speed up selected ‘new hospitals’

2024-02-19T05:14:00+00:00

Some of the schemes within the “40 new hospitals” programme could be allowed to abandon the requirement for standard design and centralised procurement, in a bid to speed the projects up.

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Trusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams

2024-01-22T12:58:00+00:00

Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.

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London Eye: Actually, we’ve coped well

2023-12-20T13:22:00+00:00

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

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NHSE warns widely used EPR could pose ‘serious risks to patient safety’

2023-12-08T11:09:00+00:00

NHS England has issued a national alert to all trusts providing maternity services after faults were discovered in IT software that could pose “potential serious risks to patient safety”.

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London Eye: Treat it like covid

2023-12-06T12:58:00+00:00

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

Stroke patient rehab

Stiffer stroke target introduced – despite failure to meet old standard

2023-11-29T05:13:00+00:00

The failure of trusts to offer stroke patients the level of rehab required by standards introduced 10 years ago has not prevented the publication of new guidance which demands even higher performance.

Human hip

More hips replaced in private hospitals than in NHS

2023-10-10T11:54:00+01:00

The number of NHS-funded hip replacements carried out last year remained well below pre-covid levels, while the total funded privately nearly doubled to cover the shortfall, new data reveals.

Handshake merger

ICB hands urgent treatment centres to trusts after ending firm’s contract

2023-09-21T11:25:00+01:00

An integrated care board has handed the operation of six urgent treatment centres to trusts after terminating a private provider’s contract.

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Exclusive: Trusts accused of underpaying junior doctors for three years

2023-08-02T09:35:00+01:00

Thousands of junior doctors could have been underpaid for up to three and a half years, potentially leaving trusts facing seven figure pay outs.

Ben Clover 2023

London Eye: What’s in Caroline Clarke’s in-tray?

2023-05-24T12:30:00+01:00

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

Hospital staff

Watch: How Birmingham and Manchester developed the longest elective waits

2023-04-13T10:44:00+01:00

HSJ has tracked acute trusts’ average waiting times since the start of the pandemic, revealing how the providers with the longest and shortest waits has changed.

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London Eye: Catastrophic failure, but not the trust you’d expect

2023-02-01T13:12:00+00:00

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