London Eye: Freedom to speak up
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: Less money for London
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Trust U-turns on axing service over funding cut
A hospital trust has agreed to keep running its sexual health service, despite a funding cut of nearly £500,000.
Hospital group takes over £450m trust after years of talks
A hospital and community services trust has been taken over by its neighbour.
Revealed: All but three ICSs fall behind financial plans
A total of 39 of the 42 integrated care systems have fallen behind their financial plans, new figures reveal.
London Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Council cancels contract with trust which ‘can’t make required efficiencies’
A hospital trust’s sexual health service has been decommissioned by council commissioners who blame cuts and a failure to propose “robust models to achieve the required efficiencies”.
Revealed: The trusts with the longest discharge delays
Patients are waiting over two weeks in hospital after their “ready for discharge” date at some trusts – more than double the average delay, according to new NHS England data.
Concerns over ‘essential’ newborn breathing equipment at one in five hospitals
One in five recent inspections of maternity services have raised concerns over “essential” breathing equipment for newborn babies, HSJ has found.
Following the Money: The trusts with the biggest drops in productivity
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
‘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.
PFI firm agrees to pay for hospital’s safety improvements
A private equity-owned private finance initiative company is paying to make a hospital it built fire-safe, HSJ has learned.
London Eye: Takeover
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Thirty trusts report more 12-hour waits, despite national improvement
Long A&E waits have got worse at more than one in five acute trusts, despite an improving trend nationally.
London Eye: Fait accompli
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: A troubling narrative
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Trusts set to merge despite ‘stability and accountability’ concern
An on-off merger between two hospital trusts is set to finally go ahead, board papers reveal.
ICB maternity plan risks increasing deaths, senior medics claim
The medical leaders of the maternity unit of a flagship hospital threatened with closure have written to their chief executive saying the downgrade would not be safe, HSJ has learned.
£100m pathology contract outsourced by London acute
A north London acute is outsourcing its pathology services to a public-private partnership in a deal worth £105m.