Regional director made a dame
An NHS England regional director has been made a dame in the King’s birthday honours.
Mackey’s men dominate the 2025 Top 50 CEO rankings
When Sir Jim Mackey took over as NHS England’s last chief executive, he picked four fellow acute trust CEOs to help him lead the service over the next two years.
CQC hires trust director as chief inspector of hospitals
A trust medical director has been appointed as the chief inspector of hospitals at the Care Quality Commission.
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.
Discrimination against gay and trans staff is undermining productivity, claims CEO
Tackling increased discrimination faced by gay and trans staff must be a priority for the NHS if it wants to maximise workforce productivity, according to the CEO of one of the service’s largest providers.
MD representing £18bn turnover teaching trusts steps down
The managing director of the Shelford Group, representing 10 of England’s biggest trusts – with a combined £18bn turnover – is to step down after three years in the role.
ICB reprimanded for not ‘holding FTs to account’
One of the largest integrated care systems has been accused of a “failure” of financial management, as NHS England issued a formal notice requiring urgent improvements across leadership, performance and care quality.
Following the Money: The trusts with the biggest drops in productivity
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
North by North West: Running rings around the ICB
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‘Systematic’ cuts to private activity planned by stricken ICS
A health system with one of the largest elective backlogs in the country will implement a “systematic reduction” of its dependency on private hospitals, as part of a bid to cut costs.
‘Decomposing bodies’ discovered at multiple hospitals
Bodies are being left to deteriorate and in some cases decompose in hospital mortuaries, often because of a lack of freezer space, HSJ has found.
North by North West: Funding still pending as new hospital opens
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Long-waiters fall by a third despite ‘stubbornly high’ elective list
Trusts cut the number 65-week breaches by 35 per cent between February and March, reducing the long waiter cohort significantly from around 75,000 to around 49,000, according to NHS England’s monthly data.
North by North West: Skin in the game
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NHSE recovery target in doubt as 18-month elective waits continue to rise
The number of 78-week breaches on the NHS waiting list has risen for the sixth consecutive month, despite a fall in 65-week waiters and the overall list size, according to official data published today.
Bid to speed up selected ‘new hospitals’
Some of the schemes within the “40 new hospitals” programme could be allowed to abandon the requirement for standard design and centralised procurement, in a bid to speed the projects up.
Trust finally launches review into consultancy contract that was never tendered
A major trust has launched an external review into a decade-long consultancy contract that was never subject to a public tender process.