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CommentThe variable quality of senior doctors is harming patients and the NHS
Inconsistent consultant standards in the NHS risk inefficiency, higher costs, delayed discharges, and reduced patient flow – clearer national criteria is needed
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CommentMental health reform is becoming urgent
Demand for mental health support is rising, particularly among young people. The next phase of NHS reform must prioritise prevention, early intervention and services that are accessible when people need them
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HSJ PartnersA minimally invasive standard of care: from ambition to reality
The next step for robotic-assisted surgery
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NewsTrust loses ‘outstanding’ rating
A trust’s leadership has been downgraded from an “outstanding” rating to “requires improvement” by the care watchdog, which cited poor management practices, “pockets of poor culture” and bullying.
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HSJ PartnersStrengthening NHS leadership through emotional intelligence
Across the NHS, chief executives and senior leaders are facing a familiar set of pressures: falling staff morale, workforce shortages, and relentless operational demands. These challenges dominate today’s leadership conversations. Yet within them lies an opportunity to rethink how leadership itself is developed and practised.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: How patients risk getting left behind when tech moves fast
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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CommentFixing the missing link in the NHS’s tech plan
The NHS has ambitious plans to become the most AI-enabled health system in the world, but without a workforce strategy to support adoption, innovation risks stalling between pilot and practice
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CommentEPR promise risks fading without national action
EPRs can improve productivity and care, but poor usability, fragmented systems and inadequate training risk undermining the NHS’s digital transformation ambitions
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CommentThe £14bn debt the NHS owes to other nations
The NHS relies heavily on internationally trained staff, raising urgent questions about fairness, sustainability, and investment in global health systems
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NewsMore than half of staff say EPRs make their job harder
More than half of NHS staff using an electronic patient record system say it made their job harder and they lacked necessary training, a survey has found.
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NewsTrusts to review ‘role and pay’ of 180,000 nurses
The government has said trusts will review the “role and pay” of every band five nurse, and promised there will be “additional funding” to cover any changes.
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CommentWe risk creating a two-tier precision health service
Precision health can shift the NHS towards prediction and prevention, but success depends on investment, data, skills and fair access
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NewsNHSE to revive 2000s-style improvement collaboratives
NHS England plans to revive compulsory “structured improvement collaboratives” for outpatients, urgent and emergency care, and frailty services – in an echo of the Modernisation Agency approach of the 2000s.
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NewsMore strikes unlikely amid ‘increasingly positive’ negotiations, says doctors’ leader
A resident doctors’ leader has predicted that further strike action is unlikely, thanks to “increasingly positive” and “constructive” negotiations.
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News‘Evidence-free’ mandatory training to be rationalised, says CEO
A leading trust chief executive has said mandatory staff training is an “evidence-free zone” and its impact on patient outcomes is “very difficult to work out”.
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NewsHospitals face ‘catastrophic’ threat from losing resident doctors
A rural hospital trust is worried about a “catastrophic effect” on its staffing from the possibility of NHS England withdrawing its resident doctors.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The trust CEO who became a very expensive whistleblower
On this episode, we cover one of the most expensive employment tribunals in the NHS and why a trust must pay its former chief executive £1.4m in damages.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Wes’ waiting list wobble
On this episode, we’re talking about the tricky balancing act between cutting waiting lists and keeping finances under control, after Wes Streeting warned this week that some trusts have tried to cut deficits too sharply.
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Comment'Frontline' staff who are not clinicians need better support
Non-clinical frontline staff in mental health services face distressed patients every day with minimal training or support. Recognising and investing in these roles is essential for patient safety and service quality
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NewsMajor flaws discovered in trust training programme
An external review has uncovered multiple problems with fairness, finance and governance in a major trust’s scheme for taking on hundreds of overseas medical trainees.