Henry Anderson
Henry covers financial policy and performance nationally, as well as local issues in Lincolnshire and South, East and North Yorkshire. He joined HSJ as a correspondent in 2022 after three years working as a lead reporter for healthandcare.scot – a news website covering the health and social care sectors in Scotland.
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- henry.anderson@hsj.co.uk
Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: The end of deficit support
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
NewsNHS productivity slows despite ministers hailing ‘green shoots of recovery’
Hospital productivity growth has “slowed sharply” in recent months, new analysis has revealed, prompting experts to warn the NHS is set to miss a key government target.
NewsHR firm called in over chair-CEO clash
An HR firm has carried out an investigation into a trust group’s CEO and chair following a breakdown in their relationship, HSJ has learned.
PodcastHSJ Podcast: Can patients save the NHS?
This week, the HSJ Health Check podcast explores how Labour hopes a fundamental change in the relationship between patients and services can turn the NHS around.
NewsGovernment to review ‘outdated’ funding formula
The review of the system used to allocate funding to GP practices announced yesterday will begin immediately and aim to conclude within six months, the Department for Health and Social Care has told HSJ.
PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS’s ugly baby
This week we take a look at two of the hottest topics in the NHS – productivity and technology.
NewsNHSE delays radical changes to payment system
Radical changes proposed to the health service’s internal financial wiring will not take place in 2026-27, HSJ has learned.
Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Are NHS finances too good to be true?
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
NewsExclusive: Mackey’s trust gets league table upgrade after last-minute data correction
The trust led by NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey was promoted from the third to the second “segment” of the new provider league table following a last-minute correction to one of the data points which underpin the rankings, HSJ can reveal.
Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Joe Public doesn’t care about NHS deficits
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
NewsHospital group loses chair while CEO is on long-term absence
The chair of a trust group where the CEO has been off work since April has announced he is stepping down.
NewsGovernment spent £3m on 10-Year Plan engagement
The government spent more than £3m on the engagement exercise for its 10-Year Health Plan, a health minister has revealed.
NewsICB boss to retire after 18 years as exec
The chief executive of South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has announced he will retire next month.
NewsExclusive: Spending freeze imposed after NHSE identifies £300m budget hole
The government has ordered a spending freeze and told the NHS to absorb the £300m cost of the most recent resident doctors’ strikes from existing budgets, HSJ has learned.
NewsRecord-low turnover ‘will derail savings plans’
The rate of NHS staff leaving their jobs has fallen to the lowest level in more than a decade, as many organisations seek to cut their paybill, analysis reveals.
NewsICBs set to miss government cost-cutting target
A series of integrated care boards have said they will not be able to meet the deadline to cut staffing costs by the end of 2025, due to a lack of central funding for redundancies, HSJ has learned.
News‘Integration is not enough’, NHSE demands ‘credible, affordable’ local plans
New five-year plans to be drawn up by all NHS organisations this autumn must be “credible, deliverable and affordable”, and boards must actively challenge them rather than them “simply endorsing the final version”, NHS England has said.
NewsRevealed: The scale of the underspend in transformation funding
Integrated care boards underspent funds meant to boost investment in prevention, learning disabilities, and primary care by more than £100m, new data shows.
News10-Year Plan author seconded to Downing Street
One of the main authors of the 10-Year Health Plan is temporarily moving from his role at NHS England to one at Number 10, HSJ has learned.
NewsAcute trust CEO to lead GP-owned provider
A retiring acute trust chief executive has been appointed the CEO of a community provider seen as a frontrunner to pioneer the government’s vision of a neighbourhood health service.