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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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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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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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CommentAccountability for NHS reform is missing at a local level
The accountability framework outlined by Patricia Hewitt in her 2023 report is complex and poorly understood by ICSs. To deliver the 10-YHP’s ambition, local accountability should be strengthened, writes Barbara Harpham
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The big waiting list clean-up
The government made bringing down elective waits its key target for the NHS, and ministers often celebrate how much the list has fallen since Labour came to power.
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NewsProvider challenges ICB spending curbs
England’s biggest private hospital group has warned it may have to stop some of its NHS work as integrated care boards screw down on spending.
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CommentThe NHS must be more willing to accept financial gifts
The network of NHS charities donates £1.5m every day to healthcare, but could raise billions more annually if trusts changed their approach, argues NHS Charities Together CEO Ellie Orton
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The recipe for a new NHS CEO
Sir Jim Mackey is expected to end his tenure as “transition CEO” of NHS England next year, so we discuss what sort of candidate might be up for the “impossible” job of running the health service.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Will ICB and NHSE staff resist redundancy?
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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NewsEqual funding rule disparaged as ‘micromanagement’ by government
The spending rule designed to ensure that mental health services received an equal share of NHS funding growth has been criticised by the government as an example of “command and control micromanagement”.
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News£860m redundancy fund revealed
Government will reduce the Department of Health and Social Care budget by £800m in a single year to fund NHS redundancies, official documents reveal.
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NewsGovernment accused of ‘weakening’ spend on service at ‘breaking point’
Mental health spending will only rise in line with inflation under new NHS England proposals, HSJ has learned, in what sector leaders have described as a “weakening” of funding protections.
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CommentA clinically trained health secretary would end industrial unrest in the NHS
Amid escalating NHS strikes, a clinician-led health department could reshape negotiations, restore trust, and shift government understanding of frontline realities
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NewsNHS budget hopes boosted by changing view on impact of health investment
The chances of greater NHS investment are growing due to a change of mind at the UK fiscal watchdog, according to a former chancellor and others who have played influential roles in deciding the service’s budget.
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LeaderWho should be the next chief executive of the NHS?
Sir Jim Mackey formally signed on as the “transition chief executive” of NHS England earlier this year. His job was three-fold: to stabilise the service’s finances, to speed up the elective recovery and to help ease operational control of the NHS back into the Department of Health after its 13-year ...
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt: I was told we had moved on from ‘normal birth’ ideology – I was misinformed
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsMcKinsey partner joins DHSC top team
The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England have appointed McKinsey’s UK health lead as their director general for strategy and healthcare policy.
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NewsTrust told to open up about ‘maternity scandal’ meeting
A trust under fire for quality and governance failures has been reprimanded by a watchdog for withholding information about a meeting of its senior leaders over maternity failures.
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NewsTwo more deaths raise alarm over mental health in A&E
Two further cases of patients absconding from hospital and taking their own lives have been highlighted at a trust which is being prosecuted for a similar case.