Bureau chief at the Health Service Journal
Joined May 2010
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Ben Clover retweeted
14 Oct 2025
NHS boss says the main way to improve health service cybersecurity is fixing the basics like "multi-factor authentication, out-of-support kit [and] weak passwords”.
...Not entirely reassuring
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Ben Clover retweeted
8 Oct 2025
Nearly 50 NHS trusts that perform well on patient care have been downgraded because they are in deficit.
But analysis of NHS England's own figures shows two-thirds of those are under-funded - raising questions about the fairness of the new league tables
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Ben Clover retweeted
9 Oct 2025
This graph (red dots actual performance v the grey line trajectory needed to hit the government's waiting list target) shows why NHS leaders are concerned about the waiting list ambition veering off track
9 Oct 2025
The waiting list change was 11,998 in August, worse than the latest trajectory for restoring 18 weeks which required -67,159. The waiting list size was overall 230,438 worse than the latest trajectory.
As a simple rule, the wait list must shrink every single month. #nhswaits
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10 Oct 2025
NRS Healthcare supplied wheelchairs and other medical devices to around half the country
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Ben Clover retweeted
9 Oct 2025
I can only talk from an orthopaedic standpoint & particularly from hip & knee surgery as that’s my area.
Referrals are going up. Locally MSK triage services seem overwhelmed; once patients finally get through and are referred on there is a 16w wait for an appointment with us.
9 Oct 2025
The government has made just ONE promise on NHS performace: to shrink the elective waiting list. So far, whatever it might say, that is not happening
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8 Sep 2025
Tough day to ask Wes for ideas to cut regulation. Day after confirmation of DHSC using public money to put private-equity owned medical equipment company NRS Healthcare on life support assets.publishing.service.go…
Cabinet meeting tomorrow will have only one item on the agenda: growth.
Rachel Reeves will demand new ideas from all ministers on how to cut regulation in their policy area.
DWP and MoD being refocussed to help drive growth.
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3 Sep 2025
Our report on the biggest trial of ambient voice technology in the NHS so far
3 Sep 2025
Exclusive: AI in A&Es could save £834m, major study finds ift.tt/05HZF1j
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24 Jul 2025
Interesting in the FT on Starmer's wanting to face down concerns over AI ft.com/content/5a849353-4c27…
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14 Jul 2025
A chilling sentence from a coroner's report into the death of a 2y/o: "medical staff at the Whittington did not recognise the lack of nursing observations. Observations were thought to be acceptable bcos they were not reported as otherwise, when in fact they were absent"
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14 Jul 2025
The coroner said nothing indicates practice was different at other trusts and notes another n. London child death a few months earlier judiciary.uk/prevention-of-f…
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Ben Clover retweeted
9 Jul 2025
Palantir calls for greater interoperability between suppliers ift.tt/nHxAMcR
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Ben Clover retweeted
8 Jul 2025
Emergency Alert day has been confirmed as 7th September. If you have a secret phone for safety go to settings and turn off all government notifications. Setting it to silent or airplane is not enough 🚨 (guidance on each step is on the internet). Spread the word
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8 Jul 2025
Reading the below, your reminder that at least one person died after the cyber attack on south east London's pathology network ft.com/content/83d362a3-7c11…
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3 Jul 2025
Lloyds Bank are still suing the NHS over a PFI hospital that caught fire hsj.co.uk/news/legal-costs-t…
3 Jul 2025
Yep, and reputation of PFI hospitals won't be helping NHSE's case either!
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3 Jul 2025
Some notable tech stuff that IS in the 10YP - HSJ has already reported some of this:
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3 Jul 2025
The attack on US EPRs is v.notable considering how much the NHS spends on them. The relative lack of mention of FDP also significant considering how much is spent with not uncontroversial firm Palantir
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Ben Clover retweeted
1 Jul 2025
What is happening in the NHS?!
Now there is NO REQUIREMENT to have a SINGLE DOCTOR ON SITE in Urgent Treatment Centres?!
I worked in UTCs b/w 2020-23 & dealt with EVERYTHING from unwell kids to acute anaphylaxis
Doctor replacement is out to control & a HUGE RISK to the public
1 Jul 2025
Genuinely shocked by the dilution of standards around the running of Urgent Treatment Centres (UTCs).
Let's take a look!
1. UTCs used to be GP-delivered services. Then GP-led and MDT-delivered. Now NO mandate for ANY doctors to be involved in leadership of the service.
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