All London articles – Page 8
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Managers’ regulation long overdue but watch out for unintended consequences
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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NewsGP refusing to join PCN wins court battle with NHS England
A judge has ruled a GP’s contract should not have been terminated after he refused to join a primary care network, in a legal dispute with NHS England.
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NewsBest and worst trusts on maternity experience revealed by CQC
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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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsCouncil 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”.
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NewsGovernment spend controls causing ‘considerable’ delays to ‘critical’ contracts
Government spending rules are causing “considerable” delays to the signing of “critical contracts” and “interrupting” patient care, NHS procurement leads have warned.
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NewsDeparting CEO given £120,000 back pay
A trust chief executive was given £120,000 in back pay and a total £380,000 in salary payments shortly before leaving the role, it has emerged.
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NewsStreeting names and shames trust for ‘really poor’ care
The health and care secretary has singled out a trust for “really poor-quality care,” just moments after he said he was “not in the business of public humiliation.”
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Streeting’s magic tree
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsRegional staffing gap grows by 70%
The gaps in coverage of mental health staff between regions have grown significantly in the past 14 years, researchers have pointed out.
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News200 patients failed after hospital missed warning
Hundreds of patients got the wrong or no treatment for a lung condition, a trust investigation has found, five years after concerns were first raised.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Falling through the gaps
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts paying the biggest premiums for safety errors
The trusts paying the highest negligence premiums as a proportion of their income have been revealed, with experts warning the “sheer costs involved in managing accidents that could be avoided” neared £3bn last year.
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NewsTrust proposes to cut its estates team by half
A prestigious teaching hospital is consulting on plans to cut its number of estates and maintenance staff by more than half.
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NewsNursing and medical director failed to act on suicide risks, court told
A trust’s nursing director and associate medical director should have reduced risk on a mental health inpatient ward by ensuring bin liners were removed, a court has heard.
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NewsSeven-hospital ‘group’ to split in two
Two large hospital trusts are scrapping their joint chair and CEO arrangement, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE desire to please govt forcing finance chiefs to agree undeliverable plans
One of the NHS’s foremost finance figures has joined the chorus of senior healthcare leaders raising serious concerns about the damaging effect of the way the service’s annual planning round is conducted.
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NewsFormer minister steps down from trust job
The chair of a leading mental health trust who served as a minister in the coalition government is stepping down.
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NewsRevealed: the ongoing impact of delays to ‘new hospital’ schemes
Infrastructure failings have led to over 1,000 operations being cancelled in the past two years at just 14 trusts, whose rebuilding plans have been placed under review by the new government, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHuge cyber attack caused minimal patient harm, ICB claims
A cyber attack which crippled a region’s pathology system for three months caused only five cases of “moderate” harm and no significant harm, the NHS has claimed.