All Health Service Journal articles in August 2025 – Page 4
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NewsFormer CEO returns home as trust chair
The chair of a trust whose specialist services have been the subject of intense scrutiny and national debate in recent years has stepped down, as it prepares to merge with a neighbour.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Waiting lists, patient power and strike impact
Your essential update on health for the week
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HSJ PartnersTime to rethink data collection
While aiming to improve NHS diagnostics and outpatient services, there is no shortage of data. However, there is a shortage of insight. The problem is shifting the focus of what data needs to be studied in order to maximise operational efficiency.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Is Donald Trump right?
As drug costs soar and the pressure from pharma to speed the introduction of new medicines intensifies, the NHS must navigate complex trade-offs between innovation, affordability, and public health
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CommentSomething has to give on ICB redundancies
Funding uncertainty and delays risk undermining ICB reforms essential to delivering the NHS 10-Year Plan, writes Kathy McLean
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NewsNew ICB cluster chiefs revealed
The preferred candidates for the chief executive posts at 13 of the 15 “clustered” integrated care boards have been identified by HSJ.
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NewsRevealed: The areas where a quarter of primary care estate needs replacement
Five integrated care systems claim that more than a quarter of their primary care premises are not fit for purpose, HSJ research has revealed.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The estate we’re in
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentFor neighbourhood care to work, we must close wards
Daniel Elkeles highlights how neighbourhood health can transform care but must scale with clear roles, shared incentives and enough resources to reduce hospital demand and cost
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NewsMaternity services isolated from trust boards, watchdog warns
The safety watchdog has raised fresh concerns about NHS maternity services in a new review, warning that harm has been normalised within units that are working “in parallel” to trusts.
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NewsThe 17 trusts missing NHSE’s new A&E handover target
More than a dozen trusts have not been meeting a new “maximum” NHS England standard through the spring and summer, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrusts told to appoint joint chair but keep separate CEOs
Two neighbouring trusts should appoint a joint chair but retain separate CEOs because “recent history” means sharing executives “could prove challenging”, a major review has concluded.
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Expert BriefingCarbon Copy: New green plans lay bare the steep challenge ahead
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: More questions than answers
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.
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NewsRegulator backs six digital tools for NHS use
Six digital health platforms for cardiac rehabilitation should be made available to NHS patients, a regulator has said in one of its first recommendations under a new approach to technologies.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The bottleneck that’s getting harder to ignore
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: Full cost of federated data platform to exceed £1bn
The full cost of the national federated data platform programme is set to exceed £1bn over its first seven years, HSJ can reveal for the first time.
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NewsTrust appoints interim CEO
A trust whose chief executive is leaving to head up the region’s integrated care board has appointed an interim successor.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Data platform price tag finally revealed
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News‘Integration is not enough’, NHSE demands ‘credible, affordable’ local plans
New five-year plans to be drawn up by all NHS organisations this autumn must be “credible, deliverable and affordable”, and boards must actively challenge them rather than them “simply endorsing the final version”, NHS England has said.