All Health Service Journal articles in March 2025
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: What does the return of Jim Mackey mean for integration?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The false narrative that stops the NHS opening more beds
As the NHS grapples with a worsening A&E crisis, the service resists the call to increase the hospital bed base. Steve Black explores why such a move, despite clear benefits, remains a contentious issue
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NewsRevealed: the trusts furthest behind on efficiency plans
A total of 20 trusts had achieved only 30 per cent or less of their 2024-25 planned efficiency programmes by the end of October, with four delivering below 20 per cent, research by HSJ has revealed.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The national security threat in the NHS
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: More trusts myth their CIPs
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsMackey must be Streeting’s ‘chief adviser’, says ex-NHSE chief exec
It is essential new NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey becomes the health secretary’s “chief policy adviser”, according to the only person to have run the service from the top of NHSE and within the Department of Health.
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NewsNew NHSE chair seeks ‘clear accountability and responsibility’
The author of a major report into quality and governance in the NHS has stressed the responsibility of local boards – and hinted at a rebalancing from regulators to providers.
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HSJ LocalExec leaves £3bn trust to run regulator
A major London acute will see both its chief executive and deputy chief executive leave post this year, as the latter has been named the new boss of a regulator.
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NewsDirectors accuse NHSE of ‘imposing solutions’ on systems and trusts
A network representing data chiefs in the NHS has raised concerns about “programme drift” in the national federated data platform (FDP) programme.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: A spectacular board implosion
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsPatients told to soil themselves in understaffed A&E
The Care Quality Commission has reported on an emergency department with 55-hour A&E corridor waits, and some frail patients being told to soil themselves because there was no one to take them to the toilet, while another had to urinate into a bottle without privacy curtains.
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NewsNewcastle appoints interim CEO
Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed an interim chief executive following Sir Jim Mackey’s temporary departure for NHS England.
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NewsSocial care delays take 6% off A&E performance, NHSE estimates
NHS England has for the first time put a figure on the potential impact on A&E performance of eliminating discharge delays for patients going into adult social care packages.
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NewsICBs appoint joint finance chief in national first
Two integrated care boards in the Midlands have appointed the first finance chief to head up two systems.
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CommentA management code of conduct must contain more than good intentions
The regulation of NHS managers must drive real change by addressing root causes, prioritising patient safety, and ensuring accountability without repeating past failures, writes Roger Kline
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NewsNHSE names critical care doctor as interim national director
An interim national director of patient safety has been appointed, after the permanent postholder was seconded to the Care Quality Commission.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: SOS at A&E
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Influencing change
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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HSJ LocalTrust sticks by overtime pay cut despite harm to elective recovery
Despite the decision to cut doctors’ overtime rates slowing elective recovery at one of the service’s most challenged trusts, HSJ has learned the provider does not plan to reverse the move.
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CommentShifting care into the community can save both people and the planet
Jennifer Ekelund, NIHR’s interim head of climate, health, and sustainability, makes the case for the role of research in decarbonising the health and social care system – leading to better outcomes for patients and the planet