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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The appearance of action without improving safety
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Trust us, we’re the ICB
This week we talk about why an integrated care board in the North West is risking the wrath of GPs after cutting back its digital offering, in a move that has also raised concerns about its procurement practices.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Inside the ‘shambles’
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 and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsFlagship digital programme ‘a shambles’
Trust leaders have branded a national tech investment programme “a shambles” and questioned whether cash will be released before the end of its first year.
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NewsStrategy director leaves NHSE
NHS England’s strategy director – a former special political adviser in the Treasury and health department – has left the role.
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NewsExclusive: National ‘neighbourhood’ director stepping down
The national lead for neighbourhood health and former national medical director has resigned, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMinisters hire economist to scrutinise cancer performance
Health economist Anita Charlesworth will independently co-chair a “reformed” National Cancer Board, seven months after the government’s cancer plan promised a body “accountable for delivery” of its commitments.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Where the Thirlwall inquiry went wrong
This week we discuss the final conclusions of the Thirlwall Inquiry, which examined the failings surrounding the murder and attempted murder of babies by Lucy Letby.
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NewsJudge to examine trust’s care failings
Government has named a chair for its public inquiry into care and governance failings at a mental health trust – nine months after the probe was promised.
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NewsGP leaders seek end to ‘hostilities’
The British Medical Association’s GP committee has voted against escalating its “collective action”, in a bid to “reset” its relationship with government and NHS England.
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NewsPrivate providers face tougher rules on payment
A major government review into the prevalence of mental illness and neurodivergence is set to call for a mandatory tariff and specification to tackle huge variation in price and quality in ADHD and autism services, HSJ understands.
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NewsExclusive: NHS CEO will keep top-tier status
The NHS chief executive is set to have equal rank in government to the health department’s permanent secretary when NHS England is abolished – meaning a proposal to downgrade their status has been rejected by ministers.
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NewsBoards must ‘never again treat baby safety as side issue’, says Cooper
Maternity and neonatal services “cannot operate on the margins,” and deaths of babies and children must be investigated as a priority by NHS boards, the health and social care secretary has warned.
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NewsTougher sanctions on senior managers demanded by Letby inquiry
The government must introduce a statutory barring system for managers by September next year, an inquiry has said – but warned it will only work if trusts are more willing to confront serious misconduct.
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NewsCooper appoints ‘strong and capable’ CQC chair
The health secretary has named Baroness Julia Neuberger as the Care Quality Commission’s new chair, after MPs said they believed she would be “strong and capable”.
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NewsGrasp ‘politically unpopular’ mergers or face more deaths
Politically unpopular and “very difficult” decisions are required to tackle rising maternal death rates and improve safety, a leading academic has warned.
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NewsExclusive: First AI clinical negligence claims lodged
The NHS has received its first clinical negligence claims related to the use of artificial intelligence, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The good, the moving-the-deck-chairs, and the positively bad
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: AI’s new rulebook
On this episode the tech bureau joins Annabelle to discuss the final report from the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare – which had promised to deliver a “new regulatory rulebook”.
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NewsNHSE staff risk losing ‘thousands’ in redundancy payouts
Hundreds of NHS England staff who took partial retirement are in danger of receiving redundancy payments which are tens of thousands of pounds lower than they expected.