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: 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.
NewsNHS must be seen as just one part of health ‘ecosystem’, says Milburn
The “big change” ushered in by the 10-Year Health Plan will be to shift the view that healthcare in England is synonymous with “a single institution we happen to call the National Health Service”, according to government adviser and former health secretary Alan Milburn.
Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Freedom in theory, not in practice
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
NewsAnnual bill for NHS’s most costly drug set to be slashed
The annual cost of NHS diabetes care could fall by £300m after the Supreme Court refused to consider blocking the introduction of a generic alternative to a widely used drug.
NewsRevealed: Court battle over drug costing NHS £300m a year
The UK’s leading pharmaceutical firm has said it will have to cancel projects aiming to help thousands of NHS patients if it loses a legal case that would bring cheaper alternatives on to the market.
NewsTrust ‘missed opportunities’ in child’s death
The health service should carry out a national review of the use of paper-based records in children’s care, an independent investigation into a child’s death has said.
NewsPay suppliers on time, NHSE tells trusts
NHS England has insisted it is committed to a policy that requires trusts to pay suppliers promptly.
NewsConservatives name new health shadow
The Conservatives have appointed a new shadow health and social care secretary.
NewsEx-banker to chair teaching hospital after stint at neighbour
A major teaching trust has appointed a new chair.
NewsFive systems lose £100m deficit support
Five integrated care systems have had their deficit support funding withheld as a result of overspending or failing to deliver savings, NHS England has revealed.