All Private sector articles – Page 20
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Ignored STPs get capital injection
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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News
CQC triumphs in tribunal battle with private provider
A tribunal has backed the Care Quality Commission for a second time over its refusal to register a new “campus style” learning disability care home.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: The cancer market
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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News
NHS-owned staffing agency appoints new chief exec
NHS Professionals has appointed a new chief executive.
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News
Private mental health hospital told to improve safety
A private mental health hospital has been downgraded to “requires improvement” and told it must do more to ensure safe care.
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News
Serious incident declared over cancer diagnostics backlog
A serious incident has been declared at a trust after a backlog in scans delayed five patients’ cancer diagnosis.
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News
‘System issue’ leaves trusts in the dark over savings from flagship project
NHS trusts do not yet know how much they can expect in savings from a new national procurement model thanks to a “system issue”.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Does the private sector get an easier ride?
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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News
Exclusive: NHS money at risk as firm winds up subsidiary and changes name
NHS hospitals, GP practices and commissioners could lose £4m after a firm providing NHS dermatology services was put into liquidation, according to documents obtained by HSJ.
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News
Trust considers pre-booking private capacity to safeguard A&E performance
A trust is proposing an extended moratorium on elective care over Christmas 2019 and Easter 2020, and pre-booking outsourcing to private providers in an attempt to shore up emergency care performance and cut cancellations.
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News
Trust owed £46m by overseas private patients
A specialist trust is owed £45.9m by international private patients, HSJ can reveal.
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News
£920k payout in warring surgeons case
A clinical director was dismissed from his job at a district general hospital after a subordinate raised concerns about him performing “unsafe” private work, a tribunal has revealed.
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News
Teaching hospital to open private clinic with major US healthcare provider
A large teaching trust has teamed up with Oxford University and a major US healthcare provider to launch a new private diagnostics clinic in London.
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News
FT outsources more than 100 patients to private sector for chemotherapy
A foundation trust is outsourcing more than 100 patients to a private facility for chemotherapy.
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News
Leaked blueprint reveals plan to centralise NHS procurement
The NHS’s buying power for goods and services worth up to £10bn could be taken away from individual trusts and placed in central teams, under proposals leaked to HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: The future of NHS procurement revealed
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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News
NHS ditches popular savings tool for new in-house version
NHS trusts have been told to switch from a widely-praised price comparison tool to a new in-house version in a bid to ramp up procurement savings.
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News
Draft CQC report had accused Whorlton Hall staff of 'bullying'
Care Quality Commission inspectors were aware patients at Whorlton Hall had accused staff of “bullying and inappropriate behaviour”, according to a draft report.
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News
Special measures for hospital where patients had to 'lie on floor'
An independent provider of inpatient mental health services has had a second hospital placed in special measures after patients were found to be treated in an “uncaring, undignified and disrespectful” way.
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Comment
NHS is moving backwards in terms of board diversity
A recently released research report says that boards of NHS organisation have become less diverse over the last 15 years, which needs to be addressed urgently, notes Joan Saddler