HSJ | Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Trust admits failings after absconded girl’s death

2025-10-27T17:59:00+00:00By Alison Moore

A hospital trust faces a substantial fine after admitting staff failed to follow a teenage girl with mental health problems who absconded from a hospital ward and then killed herself.

Local systems must ‘comply’ with new medicines access policy

2025-10-23T11:14:00+01:00By Jack Serle

NHS England wants to standardise local drug formulary teams and operations while it develops a single national formulary over the next two years, HSJ has learned.

Two in five trusts share chair or CEO

2025-10-30T12:44:00+00:00By Nick Kituno

Nearly two in five trusts in England now share a chair and/or chief executive — despite some high-profile partnerships being scaled back — HSJ analysis shows.

Remote patient monitoring: the NHS’s missing data set for system transformation

2025-10-30T04:00:00+00:00By Jonathan Lewis

Luscii’s Jonathan Lewis shares how live patient data, integrated into shared care and population health, could unlock prevention-first care at scale

Updated: NHSE suspends planned consultant contract to fix NHS board performance

2025-10-30T12:45:00+00:00By Jack Serle

NHS England has suspended a planned contract to spend £15.6m on management consultants to create an NHS board improvement programme to build capability and iron out variable performance across local organisations.

Technology and innovation

The Download: The path to ‘digital by default’ is now clearer

2025-10-29T16:26:00+00:00By Ben Clover

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 Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.

Search HSJ Local

Leader

Using the patient to smash the NHS begging bowl

2025-10-16T11:45:00+01:00By Alastair McLellan

This government’s reform of the NHS is best understood as a drive to reconfigure the economics of the public sector – which is increasingly dominated by healthcare spending. This will give the campaign of change a distinctly different flavour to the recovery mission Labour undertook during the first decade of ...