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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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Expert BriefingThe Download: Where are the wearables?
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentThe National Cancer Plan contains many unanswered questions
The National Cancer Plan is a welcome response to the facts: England lags behind on cancer outcomes, and rising incidence will challenge systems even further. But, says Cancer Research UK, with the right focus on evidence and delivery, the plan could yield results
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The mystery of the Model ICB 2.0
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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CommentThe plan to regulate managers is well-intentioned but dangerous
Chief nurses are not opposed to accountability for managers and leaders – but they think the government has designed the wrong system
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HSJ LocalNHSE takes action against neighbouring trusts
A third acute trust in the North West has been hit with enforcement action by NHS England, HSJ has discovered.
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CommentPatients with dementia are spending too long in hospital
Better dementia care could significantly ease winter pressures on the NHS, but the system is not set up for current needs, let alone future demands
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Social care gets a taste of NHS targets and terror
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsExclusive: NHS failing to honour £1bn funding deal
The NHS is rowing back on plans agreed with the Treasury, but never published, to boost community services spending, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentProfessional regulators make it too hard for patients to complain
Employers and regulators should support patients and colleagues who give evidence against registered professionals and embed lessons learnt, writes Emerita Professor Louise Wallace and Dr Annie Sorbie
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ICBs are set up to fail on hospices
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsNew registry launched to tackle ‘Wild West’ IT market
Only around a fifth of ambient voice technology firms understood to be supplying the NHS have been included on a new national registry designed to beef up NHS England’s oversight of the market, described as the “Wild West”.
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CommentCapacity, not complacency, is the biggest risk to NHS cyber security
One of the most dangerous assumptions in NHS cyber governance is the belief that once compliance has been demonstrated, maintaining that formally assured position is enough. In today’s operating conditions, this is neither prudent nor responsible
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News‘Significant errors’ uncovered in trust’s accounts
Serious financial reporting and governance problems have been discovered by a trust’s external auditors, delaying its accounts by more than a year.
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NewsProviders fear ‘significant commercial risk’ from NHSE contract rules
Fundamental concerns have been raised about NHS England’s proposed elective payment model for next year by NHS and private providers – with independent sector leaders branding them “not sustainable”.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Stabilising the ICB leadership crisis
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentCan the NHS help end homelessness?
Alex Bax assesses how a new cross-government strategy on homelessness will impact the NHS
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CommentA third of NHS managers should be working on transformation
NHS staff have ideas and ambition, but change rarely happens. A senior clinician explains why – and how delivery could finally improve
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NewsDigital tools approved to support asthma patients
New digital tools to help people with asthma manage their conditions through their phones or laptops have been approved for use in the NHS.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Taming the ‘Wild West’ of AI – predictions for 2026
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.