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Government/DH policy

Ben Clover 2023

The Download: Upgrade delayed?

2025-07-29T12:00:00+01:00By Ben Clover

The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.

  • HSJ Podcast: Deficits are cancelled

  • The Download: With no delivery plan, decision paralysis reigns

  • Conservatives name new health shadow

  • Managers will be barred for misconduct and 'silencing whistleblowers'

  • Patient Safety Watch: Dash Review opens a crucial door

  • HSJ Podcast: Mackey vs the BMA

  • The Download: Write back at you

  • Exclusive: Trusts will decide what work gets done on strike days, not BMA

  • HSJ Podcast: Spending too much on safety

Leadership

Nurse treating patient

ICBs can scrap chief nurse and medic, says NHSE

2025-08-01T05:32:00+01:00By Matt Discombe

Integrated care boards can now scrap the roles of chief nurse and chief medical officer – despite previous guidance saying they are required – NHS England has indicated.

  • Exclusive: Review uncovers misogyny and paternalistic culture at major trust

  • £4bn hospital group to appoint shared CEO

  • New CEO for trust with high staff satisfaction

  • Regulation of managers must be equitable as well as effective

  • Trusts appoint joint CEO

  • Ex-banker to chair teaching hospital after stint at neighbour

  • Large ICB announces chair’s retirement

  • Managers will be barred for misconduct and 'silencing whistleblowers'

  • Two ICB chief executives to stand down

Finance

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Revealed: Court battle over drug costing NHS £300m a year

2025-07-31T12:50:00+01:00By Henry Anderson

The UK’s leading pharmaceutical firm has said it will have to cancel projects aiming to help thousands of NHS patients if it loses a legal case that would bring cheaper alternatives on to the market.

  • The Download: Upgrade delayed?

  • Practice expelled from PCN after funding row

  • HSJ Podcast: Deficits are cancelled

  • Pay suppliers on time, NHSE tells trusts

  • NHSE tells cash-poor providers ‘to defer supplier payments’

  • NHSE seeks ‘quid pro quo’ for huge spend with tech giants

  • Five systems lose £100m deficit support

  • Carbon Copy: The trusts fined for not being green enough

  • The Integrator: Will hospitals crush integration again?

Acute care

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Trusts appoint joint CEO

2025-07-29T04:06:00+01:00By Caitlin Tilley

An acute trust and a community provider serving the same area have appointed a shared chief executive.

  • Two cheers for the 10-Year Health Plan's CVD ambitions

  • Patients lost sight due to poor care, trust admits

  • Mapped: RTT waiting times

  • Up to ten trusts face ‘national maternity investigation’

  • Exclusive: Failing trusts will pay for new intervention regime

  • NHS Providers launches bid to prevent resident doctor strikes

  • Mapped: RTT waiting times

  • The providers ‘in pole position’ to lead neighbourhood health

  • Mackey’s men dominate the 2025 Top 50 CEO rankings

Commissioning

Nurse at GP surgery

Panel backs ICB over £32.5m contract award

2025-07-08T04:33:00+01:00By Caitlin Tilley

An integrated care board has been told to proceed with a controversial decision to award an out-of-hours primary care contract – previously provided by a local GP firm – to a private company.

  • Unlocking innovation in cancer care: A call to action for system-level change (AstraZeneca sponsored)

  • CSUs are dead, long live the SSU

  • CSUs and swathe of patient watchdogs axed

  • A&E funding overhaul plan revealed

  • ImPatient: The song remains the same

  • ICB chief quits ahead of expected merger

  • London Eye: The first cyber attack death

  • Patients to decide hospital payments under 10-year plan proposals

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