All Health Service Journal articles in March 2025 – Page 3
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HSJ LocalThree trusts to share chair
Three trusts are set to share a chair as part of their efforts to work more closely together under the Great North Healthcare Alliance.
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News‘Reform standstill’ threatened over ICB cuts
Service reform and “strategic commissioning” may be “brought to a standstill” by steep cuts to integrated care boards, leaders have warned.
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NewsICBs in dispute with provider over ‘ticking timebomb’ drug costs
Multiple NHS commissioners are embroiled in a legal row with a private company they say is “intensively” marketing its online weight-loss drugs service, which could cost them hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Crumbling estates and moral injury
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrust reviewing 800 cases over child surgery failures
A large teaching trust has launched reviews of surgery on nearly 800 patients operated on by a children’s orthopaedic surgeon – and whether concerns raised 10 years ago could have prevented harm.
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NewsNHSE director leaves to run FT’s subco
A senior procurement director at NHS England is leaving this summer to run the wholly-owned subsidiary of a large London acute trust.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ICBs in limbo and under pressure
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder
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HSJ LocalCEO: Staff suffering ‘moral injury’ from poor estates
Staff are suffering “moral injury” as deteriorating estates disrupt their ability to provide care, a chief executive whose hospital rebuild has been delayed has warned.
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CommentHow to solve the NHS's endemic waste problem
Giving staff a share of savings, enabling patients, and streamlining governance and capital processes, will help reduce the NHS’s endemic waste problem, says Sir John Oldham.
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CommentMinisters will learn the pain of legally rewiring the NHS
As Andrew Lansley’s policy adviser I learned the pain of legislating to rewire the NHS — the government should avoid it, says Bill Morgan.
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LeaderStreeting is Lansley reborn
The government’s abandonment of its stricture against a top-down reorganisation would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.
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NewsFDP supplier eyes UK-wide data system
US technology supplier Palantir has called on the UK government to adopt a “common operating system” linking healthcare data with other sources such as the Department for Work and Pensions.
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CommentThe mythbuster: Consensus-driven strategy will doom the 10-Year Plan to failure
To make the 10-Year Plan a success, the NHS will need to move from consensus-driven strategy to strategy-driven consensus, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Staff contentment, trust improvement and tech procurement
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentThe regulation of NHS managers must be fair
Danny Mortimer discusses the need for clear, fair, and proportional regulation of NHS managers, emphasising accountability, professional standards, and transparency in order to improve leadership and protect public safety
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NewsNHSE ‘ignoring trusts’ pleas for fair funding’
Mental health and community trust bosses have warned they could be forced to cut services because they may lose out under the formula used to distribute pay rise funding.
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CommentMental health trusts must get tougher on smoking
Mental health trusts must strengthen smokefree policies to protect patients’ health and reduce inequalities, writes Sir Norman Lamb
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NewsCEO takes charge of neighbouring hospital
The chief executive of a district general hospital trust is to take on the leadership of its neighbour, initially for a temporary period.
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NewsWinners of HSJ Partnership and inaugural Independent Healthcare Providers Awards revealed
The inaugural HSJ Independent Healthcare Providers Awards took place alongside the HSJ Partnership Awards last night at Evolution London.
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NewsCQC needs to pay inspectors more, says chair
The Care Quality Commission’s incoming chair says it needs to pay more to recruit experienced inspectors.