All Health Service Journal articles in May 2025 – Page 4
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NewsICBs shouldn’t offload functions ‘overnight’, says NHSE director
The vast majority of trusts are “not ready” to take on primary care and neighbourhood functions, one of NHS England’s medical directors has said.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Tiger teams, missing metrics and broken buildings
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Streeting’s plans for senior manager pay
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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HSJ PartnersBeyond the status quo: Why public-private partnerships are the NHS’s next frontier
To meet rising demand, the NHS must embrace public–private collaboration that delivers proven tech solutions and enables faster, more efficient patient care, writes TeleTracking’s Chris Johnson
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Effectively digitising the NHS means not spending money on more clinicians
NHS doesn’t need more money but it does need to learn how to manage it more efficiently
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NewsStreeting’s ‘agile’ delivery unit delayed
Plans for an “agile and high-performing” delivery unit in the Department of Health and Social Care have been delayed amid disagreements in the department, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Is shrinking ICBs risking the recovery?
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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NewsThree ICB ‘clusters’ planned by region
Plans to cut the South West region’s integrated care boards from seven to three are close to fruition, HSJ can reveal.
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News‘Life saving’ rapid test not available at most CDCs
Patients are facing “unnecessary and worrying” waits because a rapid heart failure test is not available at most of the NHS’s 169 community diagnostic centres, experts have told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalTrust chair resigns amid calls for public inquiry
The chair of a challenged mental health trust facing ongoing calls for a public inquiry has resigned months after its former CEO also departed.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in March 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Western ICBs stick together
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrust ‘selectively targeted’ by workplace regulator after rise in work stress
The national workplace regulator has told an ambulance trust to do more to tackle staff stress as part of a programme in which it is “selectively targeting” high-risk organisations.
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NewsICB merger timetable revealed
Most integrated care boards are expected to “cluster” with neighbours “as soon as possible” and formally merge in either April 2026 or 2027, according to internal NHS England guidance seen by HSJ.
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NewsNHS facing another national maternity services review
Another major inquiry into patient safety within NHS maternity departments is being considered, HSJ has learned, this time by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body.
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NewsTroubled trust to appoint shared CEO with community provider
A struggling acute trust has announced plans to share a chief executive with its neighbouring community provider as it explores a new group model.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Clusters’ last stand
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsMinisters sign off capital boost for ‘high-performing’ systems
Top-performing systems will be able to spend up to £25m above their usual capital allocations under an upcoming NHS England rewards scheme, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust adopts neighbour’s EPR
One of the final seven trusts without an electronic patient record is set to partner with its neighbour to implement Oracle Health’s system.
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NewsTrust’s contract management ‘poor or non-existent’
A teaching trust’s contract management was “poor or non-existent”, thanks to a fractured relationship with its own subsidiary, a review has found.