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NewsDemanding A&E, elective and cancer targets for 2026-27 revealed
Trusts have been told to treat 82 per cent of A&E attendees within four hours next year, and must also hit a slew of other new targets revealed in the latest planning guidance.
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NewsGovernment delays new NHS workforce plan
The government has pushed back publication of its new NHS workforce plan to spring next year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCEO announced for £4bn hospital group
A joint chief executive has been appointed to lead the biggest hospital group in England.
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NewsJoint NHSE-DHSC leadership team revealed
NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have set out how the service will be jointly led by the two organisations until their formal merger is complete sometime in 2027.
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NewsIntegrated health organisations actually a form of contract, says NHSE
The “integrated health organisations” proposed in the government’s 10-Year Health Plan are not, in fact, organisations but a “contract-based delivery method”, according to the 2026-27 planning guidance issued by NHS England today.
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NewsNHS App to become default patient communication channel
The NHS App should be the main channel for all types of patient communication by the start of 2029, new national guidance has stated.
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NewsResident doctors to strike for five days next month
Resident doctors in England will strike for five days next month, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsLocal systems must ‘comply’ with new medicines access policy
NHS England wants to standardise local drug formulary teams and operations while it develops a single national formulary over the next two years, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCQC chief quits with ‘immediate effect’
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has quit with “immediate effect”, the regulator has announced today.
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NewsTrust hires railway chief to lead £2.2bn private funding bid
A railway infrastructure chief will head a “taskforce” to deliver a £2.2bn new hospital project after it was delayed by the government’s national programme.
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NewsTrust picks US patient record supplier
One of the seven NHS trusts still relying on paper records has selected a provider for its electronic patient record.
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NewsEx-tabloid editor to review ‘integration’ of DHSC and NHSE media teams
Wes Streeting has hired a former newspaper editor to review the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England’s “media and digital work”.
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NewsCQC prosecutes hospital over ‘avoidable harm’
The Care Quality Commission is prosecuting a large hospital trust for allegedly exposing a patient to a “significant risk of avoidable harm” by failing to provide safe care and treatment.
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News‘Troubling’ bid to curb checks for restricted patients
Government is making a legal bid to curb the need for health and care providers to get council sign-off and oversight when they admit and put restrictions on people with limited mental capacity.
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NewsHospital chief steps down after a decade
A chief executive of a hospital trust is stepping down after nearly a decade.
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NewsTwo trusts removed from maternity probe
Two trusts have been removed from the health and social care secretary’s “rapid” national investigation into maternity services, a month after they were included.
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HSJ LocalEx-regional leader joins ICB with £178m deficit
An integrated care board with one of the largest deficits in the country has appointed an interim chair.
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NewsNHS productivity slows despite ministers hailing ‘green shoots of recovery’
Hospital productivity growth has “slowed sharply” in recent months, new analysis has revealed, prompting experts to warn the NHS is set to miss a key government target.
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NewsNHSE intervenes over trust’s leadership failures
NHS England has taken legal enforcement action against one of England’s biggest teaching trusts over concerns about its leadership and governance.
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NewsDHSC to spend £8m on IT for NHSE takeover
The Department of Health and Social Care is expecting to spend at least £8m on new IT infrastructure to aid its takeover of NHS England’s functions.