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First ICB ‘pauses’ redundancy plans over funding concerns

2025-08-10T10:08:00+01:00By Matt Mathers

An integrated care board says it will not progress a redundancy scheme needed to halve its operating costs in the current financial year because it cannot be sure how it will be paid for.

Daily Insight: Jury’s out on future strikes

2025-08-13T00:00:00+01:00

The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.

Exclusive: Ministers using ‘misleading indicator’ to champion waiting list reduction

2025-08-13T12:30:00+01:00By James Illman

The recent reduction in the waiting list repeatedly cited by ministers as evidence of the NHS’s recovery has given a “misleading” impression to the public about the service’s underlying performance, two leading think tanks have warned.

Mental Health

Private providers’ NHS revenues booming as waiting lists increase

2025-08-12T05:40:00+01:00By Ben Clover

Two private companies used by the NHS to carry out ADHD and autism assessments have seen another huge increase in income, HSJ can reveal.

Finance and Efficiency

‘40 new hospitals’ will not be delivered until 2046

2025-08-13T12:30:00+01:00By Zoe Tidman

The delivery of the “40 new hospitals” promised in 2019 by the incoming Conservative government will cost £60bn and take until 2046 to deliver, if pursued by the current administration and its successors.

Primary Care

Neighbourhood health ‘can’t be line managed’

2025-08-01T05:40:00+01:00By Dave West

A government neighbourhood health lead has warned the service “can’t line manage organisations outside the NHS into change”, which will instead rely on “frontline involvement” organised in relatively small patches.

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