All London articles – Page 16
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NewsSystem agrees 10% bed base increase to ease A&E crisis
An integrated care system is planning to open between 70 and 100 addtional mental health beds to deal with a crisis in capacity.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The new 2,000
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News‘Excess deaths’ due to A&E delays rise by nearly a third in one year
Long waits in A&E departments may have caused around 30,000 ‘excess deaths’ last year, according to new estimates.
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NewsLabour policy figure to chair three trusts
An influential left-wing policy figure is set to chair three community and mental health trusts.
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HSJ LocalSingle ‘group’ team will run seven hospitals
Two major trusts have announced they will move to a single executive team and board over the next 18 months, across the seven hospitals they operate.
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NewsManager called colleague a ‘megabitch’ in alleged ‘campaign of bullying’, review finds
An external review has found that two managers at a mental health trust should answer allegations they bullied and victimised a colleague.
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NewsThird of largest trusts do not know their carbon footprint
More than a third of the largest NHS trusts are still unable to state the size of their full carbon footprint, despite it being three years since the national plan for ‘net zero’ was established.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The capital’s most challenged service
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsHospitals close areas after discovering RAAC planks
More hospitals have closed parts of their site after discovering potentially unsafe concrete had been used in the building structures, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust’s £9m gift to charity reveals governance ‘weakness’
A trust donated £9m to its charity without the permission of NHS England or the Treasury.
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NewsTrust appoints group chief executive
Royal Free London Foundation Trust has confirmed Peter Landstrom as its substantive group chief executive.
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NewsTeaching trust accused of unfair treatment by supplier
A major London teaching trust has seen its decision to award a five-year waste management contract challenged by an unsuccessful bidder.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Death during the 'Christmas Day' strikes
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News‘No alternative’ to paying more to struggling provider, ICB admits
An integrated care board has no ‘viable alternative’ to persisting with a contract for several struggling urgent treatment centres, and paying more for them to try to hire more staff, it has decided.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Doctors think the board wants them to take risks with safety
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentThe way ambulance trusts work has not always delivered, so we’re changing
London Ambulance Service Trust’s CEO Daniel Elkeles discusses the trust’s new five-year strategy and the three missions it aims to achieve
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NewsExclusive: Tenfold variation in beds revealed by NHS England audit
The number of NHS community beds per head of population varies by more than 10 times between integrated care systems, an NHS England audit seen by HSJ suggests.
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NewsICS calls in turnaround director after plunging £70m into the red
An integrated care system has brought in a financial turnaround director after racking up an unplanned deficit of more than £70m in the first five months of the 2023-24 financial year.
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NewsProvider fined record £1.5m over patient death
A private healthcare provider has been ordered to pay more than £1.5m – the largest fine issued for such a case – after pleading guilty in a criminal prosecution brought by the Care Quality Commission over an inpatient’s death.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Trusts’ ‘unknown’ disability problem revealed
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, this week by HSJ employment and equalities correspondent Nick Kituno, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and ...