At least 20% of baby deaths ‘potentially avoidable’
At least a fifth of baby deaths last year may have been preventable, with this estimate considered “a minimum”, an analysis of thousands of care reviews has concluded.
Hospitals seek ‘pause’ on ambulance handover rule
An ambulance trust is “not assured” the 45-minute limit on hospital handovers can be consistently delivered this winter, after repeated requests from hospitals to “pause” it.
Digital referral model standardises safer specialty admissions
Entrant: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust
Category: Patient Safety Awards 2026/Safety Improvement Through Technology Award
Award: Shortlisted
Urgent warning issued over cardiac death risk
A coroner has issued an urgent warning that the failure to implement an emergency cardiac pathway could result in more deaths.
Exclusive: Investigations launched into potential harm at children’s service
A major acute trust has launched two reviews over care failures potentially affecting 130 children, HSJ has learned.
Following the Money: Is NHSE wrong to blame striking docs for financial woes?
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By senior correspondent Zoe Tidman.
Exclusive: Hundreds sacked for snooping on patient records
More than 200 NHS staff have been sacked and around 2,000 others sanctioned for inappropriately viewing patient records over the past five years, HSJ can reveal.
Former police chief to chair trust
A major hospital trust under pressure over maternity failings has appointed a former assistant chief constable as chair.
HSJ Podcast: The doctor who’s fought maternity scandals for a decade
Now the dust has settled on two major maternity reviews, HSJ Health Check is joined by Bill Kirkup to discuss what happens next.
Ministers remove adviser from national taskforce over ‘conflict of interest’
A medical adviser to the national maternity and neonatal taskforce has been asked to leave by ministers after they recognised “the depth of family concern” about his appointment.
Patient Safety Watch: ‘The wrong voices’
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
Exclusive: Another major trust sacks staff over snooping
Members of staff from yet another NHS trust have been sacked for inappropriately viewing patient medical records, HSJ can reveal.
HSJ Podcast: What next after Nottingham
NHS maternity services are again in the spotlight after an independent review revealed serious, systemic failings at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.
Mackey: We’ll change exec contracts to ensure accountability for failings
NHS executives could have their contracts rewritten to ensure they can be held to account for any actions taken while working for previous employers, NHS England’s CEO has said.
Trusts must recheck 10 years’ worth of mortuary records
Trusts must check records stretching back to 2016 to ensure any failings that have taken place in their mortuaries have been reported to the regulator.
Snooping on records ‘worrying trend, not just isolated incidents’
High-profile cases of staff snooping on patients’ health records, as most recently exposed by HSJ, have revealed “a worrying trend” across the NHS rather than just isolated incidences, a watchdog chief has warned.
Updated: Nottingham families slam ‘abhorrent’ NHS leadership as execs threatened with prison
Families affected by the Nottingham maternity scandal have hit out at the “abhorrent” leadership of “senior staff” as the government revealed that staff who refuse to engage with future investigations could be sent to prison for up to two years.
Arrests made at maternity inquiry trust
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office in connection with operating practices at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust’s mortuary service, police have revealed.
Public inquiry into maternity being considered by DHSC
Current inquiries into care failures lack teeth, and such a gap could be filled by a public inquiry, the government’s new national maternity adviser has revealed.
Six trusts exit NHSE recovery regime
Six trusts have been released from an NHS England’s regime for the most challenged providers, HSJ has learned.