Ben Clover
Ben is a bureau chief at HSJ and covers the private sector, pathology sector and south London. He has lectured at Imperial College London’s master’s course on health policy.
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NewsLetby trust CEO ‘was fit and proper’, claims chair
The former chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital said its then chief executive did not meet the threshold for failing a “fit and proper person” test, despite criticism of his treatment of paediatricians and their concerns about Lucy Letby.
News‘Targeted cyber security issue’ to disrupt hospital for a week
Disruption caused by a “targeted cyber security issue” on a district general hospital is likely to go on for at least a week, it has said.
Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
NewsRegional director told to ‘rehabilitate’ Letby trust CEO
The senior manager in charge of finding a new role for the chief executive of the trust where Lucy Letby worked has said she was “disappointed” not to be told of the full reasons behind the move.
Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Streeting’s magic tree
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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.
PodcastHSJ Podcast: What the ‘left shift’ means for hospitals
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover is joined by the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers to talk money, quality and the CQC
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.
NewsSeven-hospital ‘group’ to split in two
Two large hospital trusts are scrapping their joint chair and CEO arrangement, HSJ can reveal.
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.
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.
Expert BriefingLondon Eye: It shouldn’t take a CQC inspection
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
NewsICB still waiting for its accounts to be signed off after 19 months
One of England’s biggest integrated care boards is still waiting to have its annual accounts for 2022-23 signed off, 19 months after the end of the financial year.
PodcastHSJ Podcast: Winter ‘panic buying’
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at what no money for winter means for the NHS, and how real a bold new integration scheme is.
NewsRegion ‘going into battle’ over funding changes that could cost it £400m
A region’s finance teams are “going into battle” with NHS England over proposed changes to a funding formula that could cost it around 2 per cent of its total budget.
PodcastHSJ Podcast: The magic administrator
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at whether the NHS’s whole safety, safe-staffing and quality system is getting overhauled, plus was it one simple trick that slashed waiting times at a trust?
Expert BriefingLondon Eye: An 'incredibly difficult winter'
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
NewsLocal authority leader appointed ICS chair
A former local authority leader has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.
News£10m supplier ‘cancelled NHS contracts with six hours’ notice’
A patient transport firm serving two major teaching hospital groups gave its customers just six hours’ notice it was stopping services, the trusts said.
Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Inequity in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.