All Health Service Journal articles in January 2026 – Page 4
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: A difficult sacrifice
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: Confed and Providers appoint new CEO
The chair of Ireland’s public healthcare system has been appointed chief executive of the new body due to be formed by a merger of the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers.
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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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NewsNew registry launched to tackle ‘Wild West’ IT market
Only around a fifth of ambient voice technology firms understood to be supplying the NHS have been included on a new national registry designed to beef up NHS England’s oversight of the market, described as the “Wild West”.
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CommentWaiting list falls but still not fast enough
The longest waiting specialties made the biggest improvements in waiting times in November, says Rob Findlay
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NewsStreeting sent NHSE director to investigate trust mired in landmark trans-rights case
Wes Streeting instructed NHS England to intervene at a trust facing a landmark trans-rights case, which today saw it found guilty of indirectly discriminating against female staff by requiring them to share a changing room with a transgender woman.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in November 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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HSJ Local‘Digital desert’ hospital group pushes £88m tech project back a year
A hospital group containing three acute trusts has been forced to delay deployment of its electronic patient record for at least another 12 months, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHalf of ‘New Hospitals’ will not open until at least 2038
Eighteen of the 40 schemes included in the New Hospital Programme will not be completed for at least another 12 years, a new government analysis has revealed.
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NewsStaff left with ‘strong sense of betrayal’ after manager jailed for fraud
A former manager at a now-dissolved trust has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after using his position to defraud the organisation of more than £100,000.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Simple, plausible and wrong
20 per cent of A&E patients end up being cared for in corridors, and delayed discharges cost at least £2.7bn annually, yet ministers ignore the best solution to these problems.
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CommentThe launch of ‘ChatGPT for health’ is both a threat and an opportunity
OpenAI’s entry into consumer health is not speculative innovation but a response to behaviour already happening at scale. For the NHS, it exposes a long-ignored gap in law, interoperability and patient agency that policy can no longer sidestep
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NewsNational system held up by ‘limitations’ of Federated Data Platform
Development of a national “system control centre” tool for monitoring healthcare demand and capacity is being held up by “limitations” of the Federated Data Platform, an integrated care board has said.
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NewsPrestigious trust ends joint chair arrangement
A major trust is to end its shared chair agreement with its neighbour when the incumbent leaves later this year.
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NewsDirector sacked after ‘irreparable’ relationship breakdown
A trust has dismissed its medical director with immediate effect, HSJ has learnt.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The least bad option
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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NewsRevealed: Urgent review ordered after deaths in fragile maternity services
NHS England has ordered trusts to “urgently” review their home birth services, it has emerged – as an HSJ investigation reveals widespread fragility and safety risks.
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NewsSmall hospices ‘probably unsustainable’, says Mackey
Some small hospices are “probably unsustainable”, Sir Jim Mackey has told MPs, while also warning integrated care boards they needed to clarify their local commissioning intentions this year.
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News‘Whims’ of commissioners have undermined national investment, says leading clinician
National mental health investment has failed to improve services in many areas because implementation depends on “the whims and fancies” of local commissioners, a royal college president has told HSJ.
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NewsCouncil planning disputes ‘costing trust millions’
A major trust has warned it will have to spend “millions” of pounds to address planning issues at one of its hospitals as it “struggles to find money for basic safety”.