All Health Service Journal articles in December 2025
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Light touches, tech tragedies and departing chiefs
Your essential update on health for the week
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NewsClustering ICBs will share board members
Two integrated care boards that recently announced clustering arrangements have confirmed they will share a chief executive, chair and executive team.
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NewsIHO benefits ‘not transparent’, says leading candidate
The material advantages of becoming an integrated health organisation are “not entirely clear” due to an “almost complete lack of any detail”, according to would-be partners in one of the leading candidates.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in October 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentWaiting list starts growing again
The trajectory towards 18 weeks recovery is getting steeper, says Rob Findlay
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NewsPrevention shift ‘left behind’ as budgets are held flat
Public health allocations are due to be held flat in real terms for three years, despite the government’s intended “shift from treatment to prevention”.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: How to abolish NHS England
This week we bring you the latest in our series of HSJ Health Check podcasts tracking the development of the government’s planned Health Bill.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: NICE knowing you
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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News38 trusts move league table segment
Thirty-eight trusts have moved segments in the NHS England league tables for the second quarter of 2025-26, despite very few recording a significant change in their performance score.
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CommentThe Friends and Family Test must be reformed
Chris Graham makes the case for reforming the NHS Friends and Family Test to support the delivery of the 10-Year Health Plan and its aspirations to amplify the patient voice
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NewsPatients missed out on brain-preserving treatment
A hospital has been referring less than one in 100 stroke patients for a brain-preserving treatment, missing opportunities for others to benefit, a deep dive review has found.
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NewsRevealed: £260m deficit support withheld from 10 systems
NHS England has withheld over £260m from 10 local systems due to concerns over finances, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE staff ordered to increase office working
NHS England has told staff they must work in the office more and that no new home working contracts will be offered, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMaternity review trusts delivered ‘better care than expected’, CQC finds
Only two of the 12 trusts involved in the government’s national investigation into maternity services delivered care that was “worse than expected”, according to a Care Quality Commission survey.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Holding hands together
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Claws retracted
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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NewsStreeting proposes emergency legislation in bid to avert strikes
Resident doctors are holding a snap survey on a late attempt by the government to avert strikes this month.
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NewsMinisterial power grab ‘greatest threat’ to NICE existence
The government plans to take direct control of the cost effectiveness thresholds used by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence are “the greatest threat yet to its existence,” according to one the agency’s founding directors.
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NewsICB chief suspended pending internal investigation
The chief executive of one of the largest integrated care boards in the country has been suspended pending an internal investigation.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Data saves lives (and money)
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.