All Health Service Journal articles in April 2025 – Page 2
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NewsRevealed: Trusts spending millions on B&B rooms
Mental health trusts spent more than £2m on “bed and breakfast” accommodation in order to discharge patients last year, highlighting big gaps in appropriate housing, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The FDP is an ‘empty box’ in many areas
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentPlaces do not know what is expected of them
Shilpa Ross explores the role of place-based partnerships in integrated care, highlighting challenges and governance variations, plus the importance of supporting local initiatives amid ongoing NHS restructuring
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News‘Immobile’ patient dies after discharge with no care package
An “immobile” patient was found dead after a trust discharged him to his home with no care and support, a coroner has found.
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HSJ LocalCEO tells staff ‘silence is complicity’ after record sexual misconduct reports
An ambulance trust has dismissed “multiple staff” for sexual misconduct offences this year following its “highest year ever for reported sexual safety incidents” in 2024, HSJ has learned.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The abiding wisdom of the ‘Troubleshooter’
In the early 1980s, John Harvey-Jones transformed the industrial giant ICI from a struggling corporation into a highly profitable enterprise. His management principles, outlined in his book Making it Happen, offer valuable lessons for today’s NHS, writes Steve Black
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NewsWe’re ‘fundamental’ to future ICBs, say pharmacists
Medicines management teams should not be targeted by imminent cost cuts and must remain a “fundamental component” of the new model for integrated care boards, NHS England has been told.
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CommentICBs are still needed
Cuts to ICB budgets and shifting roles risk undermining integrated care, but successful local models show how system leadership can still drive transformation in NHS services, writes Sir Chris Ham
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NewsHospital sends GPs 15,000 letters in a single day
A “technical failure” caused a hospital trust to send 15-20,000 discharge letters to local GP practices on the day before the Easter bank holiday weekend, some of which dated back four months.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Don’t let NHS capital get stuck in the Whitehall queue, Rachel
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsCEO leaves ‘recovery support’ trust after eight years
The chief executive of a trust in NHS England’s “recovery support” regime is stepping down after eight years in the role, HSJ can reveal.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Damning tribunals, data warnings and new appointments
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CEO InterviewCEO interview: Richard Jenkins, chief executive, Rotherham and Barnsley Foundation Trusts
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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NewsTrusts cut use of private ambulances despite performance woes
Two ambulance trusts with some of the worst performance on a key response time target are reducing the use of private ambulance firms.
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News‘Unaffordable’ care spending driven by rush to clear hospital beds
The rush from acute hospitals to “free up beds” is probably behind an “unaffordable” rise in an integrated care board’s social care spending, it has been told.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The listening trust
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentNHSE abolition has plunged addiction services back into uncertainty
While last month’s news of the abolition of NHS England continues to reverberate across the health sector, it is not only organisations directly under the NHS banner that are questioning what this will mean for them, writes Victoria Corbishley
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HSJ LocalICB points to lack of government support after teenager’s suicide
Long waits for autism diagnosis and treatment – implicated in the suicide of a 17-year-old – will continue unless addressing them is given greater priority by government, an integrated care board has said.
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NewsCEO steps down from system with £305m budget hole
The chief executive of one of the country’s most financially challenged systems is stepping down after three years in the role.
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HSJ PartnersThe first step in tackling racial inequity is listening to the people who experience it
Racial inequity affects the whole of society, and tackling it means listening to the voices of as many people as possible, write Habib Naqvi, chief executive of NHS Race and Health Observatory and Sam Rodger, assistant director policy and strategy at NHS Race and Health Observatory