Biggest climbers and fallers in trust league table
Sharply divergent performance in the last quarter of 2025-26 saw dramatic movement within NHS England’s league table for acute trusts, with six providers moving up or down rankings by 30 places or more.
Influential DHSC panel leader resigns
The chair of a panel responsible for advising ministers on contested NHS service changes has resigned after six years in the job.
Trust settles ‘lucrative deal’ legal challenge
A south London acute trust has ended a year-long legal challenge brought by a radiology supplier after agreeing to a confidential settlement.
NHS ‘a cat’s whisker’ from hitting headline targets
The NHS was within touching distance of its headline urgent and emergency care targets in March – falling just short of the key asks in A&E and ambulance wait times.
Hospital group signs AI deal covering 20,000 clinicians
An acute provider collaborative has signed one of the largest ambient voice technology deals to date, covering up to 20,000 clinicians across four trusts.
New chief for world-famous hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has announced its new chief executive.
New CEO for hospital awaiting major rebuild
A hospital trust has appointed a successor to its chief executive of nearly a decade.
Revealed: The trusts with the highest savings targets
A dozen trusts have set efficiency plans worth 8 per cent of their allocations this year as the average savings target rose compared to 2024-25, HSJ research reveals.
Half 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.
‘Corridor care’ approaches 1m cases a year
About 1 million A&E patients have been placed in corridors or similar “temporary” spaces over the past year, information obtained by HSJ reveals.
New boss for £2bn hospital group
A new chief executive has been appointed to a large hospital group.
Maternity units disrupted for nine months by IT fault
An IT fault has prevented several major maternity units in South London from properly storing foetal heart monitoring records for more than nine months, HSJ has learned.
Long-serving hospital chief executive to retire
A long-serving hospital chief executive has announced plans to retire later this year so he can focus on his family after his wife’s cancer diagnosis.
Bonus fund led to ‘March madness’ and possible gaming in A&E
A royal college has raised fundamental concerns that an NHS England incentive scheme may have been “gamed” and that this led to what one senior figure branded a “March Madness” in urgent and emergency care performance.
‘Blizzard’ of NHSE asks is ‘deluging’ trusts, warns chair
Trusts are battling a “blizzard” of new tasks from the centre as officials are “making it up as they go along” in the wake of the 10-Year Health Plan, a chair has complained.
Trust group CEO leaves to run Welsh NHS
The chief executive of a London trust group is leaving to run the NHS in Wales.
NHS Providers launches bid to prevent resident doctor strikes
NHS Providers wants to lead a redesign of resident doctor employment structures to bring back “elements of ‘the Firm’” approach, its new CEO has said.
Regional boss: Put US tech firms ‘on the hook’ for support
US tech firms should be “on the hook” for supporting NHS trusts implementing new systems, a senior NHS England official has said.
Block contracts slowing down surgery
Block funding contracts are undermining the throughput and care quality of a common emergency operation, leading clinicians have told HSJ.
Supplier suing trust after rival’s ‘lucrative proposal’
An acute provider is being sued after telling one of its suppliers its contract would not be extended due to a “lucrative proposal” from a rival.