Ben Clover
@BenClover
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Bureau chief at the Health Service Journal
London
Joined May 2010
Breaking: Suspected cyber attack on patholgy services cripples major health system
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RT @AliJaneMoore: I thought last week was going to be easie for amb trusts: it wasn't. Well over 11K one hour delays and average handover t…
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@AliJaneMoore And TBF to trusts NHS England sets a very bad example, instructing them to not confirm the amount of patient harm from paediatric audiology failures, for example
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Suspect the problem for ministers on capital funding is the NHS cannot/doesn't give examples of patient harm from the dilapidated estate. When he was head of NHSI Jim Mackey lamented that the govt wouldn't borrow when interests were at their lowest rates since the Napoleonic wars
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@Davewwest Said his impression was New Hospitals team didn't have much input into the decisions on which hospitals were taken forward/which were pushed back to the 2040s. Said progress would depend on lobbying DSIT, Biz and Treasury. Bcos life sciences in Paddington wd boost economic growth
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RT @VirtueOfNothing: This was one of the biggest culture shocks after coming to work in the NHS from Scandinavia. For some reason organis…
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interesting thread
Having spent several years now on the complex and murky issue of Regulation, my own opinion is that it is pointless to regulate NHS managers. If not inappropriate. Here are a few reasons why. 1. Regulation applies to professions or to certain safety-critical jobs. 1/
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@Davewwest In practice trusts can "explore alternative funding" for these kinds of projects (some kind of PFI) then just get told 'no' by the Treasury
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RT @Davewwest: New schedule is 'devastating' , says trust which runs St Mary's Hospital in north west London
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In statement on emergency care Streeting tells Parliament there were 24 critical incidents declared nationally, down to one now. 24 is about 17% of hospital trusts in England, mor than half of ICBs
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They've now said because the identity of the attackers is not known the injunction is supposed to constrain "persons unknown"
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RT @ShaunLintern: One nurse told The Sunday Times: "We had an elderly patient who was end-of-life & because we didn’t have space, she was m…
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