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NewsMike Richards to leave CQC
The chair of the Care Quality Commission is stepping down, just as the struggling regulator seeks a new chief executive.
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CommentBlaming individuals for care failures is sometimes the right response
The Great Ormond Street scandal exposes a growing imbalance in NHS patient safety policy. In moving away from blame, the system has also lost sight of individual competence, leadership responsibility, and the non-negotiables needed to prevent serious harm
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HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Deficits deepen, leaders depart and plan disappoints
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt’s sobering realisation about bureaucracy and box ticking
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsEleven unions raise grievance over office working
Eleven unions have launched a formal collective grievance with NHS England over its order that staff spend more time in their office, HSJ understands.
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NewsChase ‘quick wins’ to hit A&E target, hospitals told
Hospitals are being encouraged to target children, less sick patients, and “near miss breaches” in the final weeks of the financial year, in an attempt to hit the government’s A&E target.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The secret plan for ICBs, and other restructure woes
This week, we cover a mysterious update to the “model ICB” blueprint that hasn’t been formally published or endorsed by NHS England, but instead passed in whispers.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Clashing over ‘car park care’
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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NewsFlagship trusts still not using federated data platform
Many of England’s largest and most prestigious trusts are yet to start using the federated data platform, despite a push from the centre for full adoption from April.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: What 2026 means for strikes
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.