HSJ Podcast: Who’s really in charge of neighbourhood health?
The HSJ Health Check podcast explores the evolving concept of neighbourhood health, the question marks over who will lead in each area, and why integrated care boards still have an important role to play.
HSJ Podcast: How the government should deal with another doctors’ strike
HSJ editor Alastair McLellan sits down with NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor during this year’s ConfedExpo conference, which has been happening at the same time as the chancellor’s spending review.
NHSE tells ICBs to slow elective referrals
NHS England has told integrated care boards they need to slow down elective referrals dramatically – nearly eliminating year-on-year growth – with high-profile waiting list targets under threat.
‘Overfunded’ ICBs offer better IVF access
Three of the most “overfunded” integrated care boards are offering greater access to IVF than most of their peers, HSJ can reveal.
London Eye: Less money for London
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
City to simulate neighbourhood health service
NHS England will be supporting a “simulation” of a “neighbourhood health service” in London this spring.
London Eye: The (surprising) names linked to England’s top hospital job
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: Capital in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Late delivery of equipment linked to patient’s death
The late supply of defective equipment used by care staff to reduce harm from a pressure ulcer contributed to the death of a vulnerable patient, a coroner has concluded.
London Eye: New year, new questions
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
£33m cost of cyber attack revealed
A cyber attack on a pathology firm part-owned by the NHS — which left hospital systems crippled for months — cost the provider £32.7m, accounts reveal.
London Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Local authority leader appointed ICS chair
A former local authority leader has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.
Three ICSs responsible for a quarter of very long diagnostic waits
Just three integrated care systems were responsible for nearly one in four 13-week waits for key diagnostic tests in recent months, HSJ analysis of official data has found.
The Integrator: The influence of ‘place’ is being chipped away
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.
NHS set to breach planned annual deficit in five months
Local NHS bodies have burned through almost all of their annual deficit target in just the first four months of the year, analysis of the latest finance reports by HSJ shows.
Nineteen hospitals targeted for ‘urgent support’ before winter
NHS England has revealed the hospitals it is targeting for “urgent support” to avoid deterioration in emergency care performance ahead of winter.
New ICS funding system ‘inherently unfair’, officials were told
Multiple commissioners and providers told officials they believed a new NHS England specialised services funding model is ‘inherently unfair’ as it will disadvantage some of the most deprived health systems, it has emerged.
London Eye: The next big NHS care scandal?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.