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NewsFirst trusts win IHO status
Two trusts have become the first to win national approval to hold an integrated health organisation (IHO) contract.
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NewsMaternity ‘sidelined by boards and poorly understood by medical directors’
Maternity services, despite numerous scathing reviews, are still sidelined by trust boards and often poorly understood by medical directors, who view them as being outside the mainstream and delivered by “slightly odd folk”, a leading expert has told HSJ.
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NewsNeighbourhood providers to gradually replace PCNs
Integrated care boards will be expected to offer GP practices additional services and funding to drive them to form new “neighbourhood providers” – but will get no new national money to do so.
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NewsICB CEO temporarily steps down after three months
The interim chief executive of an integrated care board cluster has temporarily stepped down after just three months in the role.
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NewsCQC names new CEO
A senior civil servant who has run the food safety regulator will be the new CEO of the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsHealth experience no longer ‘essential’ for ICB chiefs
A new NHS England template job description for integrated care board chief executives has dropped a requirement for “executive healthcare experience”, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local‘Lives destroyed for speaking up’ at top hospital, claim doctors
Nearly 200 doctors at a major teaching hospital have told a “listening exercise” prompted by a major care scandal that they feared raising patient safety concerns.
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NewsRevealed: The NHSE teams losing most staff to redundancy
UPDATED: At least a quarter of staff in NHS England chief executive’s office have agreed to take voluntary redundancy, substantially higher than most other teams, figures leaked to HSJ suggest.
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NewsBaby safety concern trust gets national help
A maternity service which has had elevated neonatal mortality for several years has joined an NHS England programme for extra “support”, it has confirmed to HSJ.
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NewsCQC chief faces ‘inherent conflict’
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission is set to become responsible for deciding whether to remove “safe space” protection from whistleblowers’ information, which a former health minister has called an “inherent conflict”.
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NewsNHSE region signs AI scribe deal covering 15 trusts
The NHS has launched its largest-ever regional deployment of ambient voice technology, covering 70,000 clinicians across 15 trusts and 1,239 GP practices.
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NewsSingle CEO candidate shortlisted after governors demanded competition
An open CEO recruitment process demanded by a trust’s governors resulted in only its interim chief being shortlisted for interview, a trust has admitted.
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NewsRevealed: Biggest climbers and fallers on diagnostic waits
Eleven trusts recorded swings of more than 20 percentage points on the headline waiting target for diagnostic tests over the past year.
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NewsExclusive: Another trust investigates snooping on attack victims
An ambulance trust is now investigating whether staff snooped on Southport victim records, HSJ can reveal, intensifying calls for a national review into patient privacy.
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NewsA&E and outpatients first to get AI scribe funding
A&E and outpatients will receive the first batch of central funding to introduce ambient voice technology this financial year, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Catastrophic outcomes’ threat from ‘inappropriate’ maternity tools
Hospitals are persisting with using variable methods and tools to measure the growth of unborn babies, which experts say is leading to avoidable deaths, HSJ can reveal.
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News‘Systemic failures’ contributed to teenager’s death
Longstanding issues with leadership and clinical oversight across two trusts contributed to failures surrounding the death of a teenager, two independent reviews have found.
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News‘Intolerable harm’ being caused by ICB restructure
Six unions have accused two integrated care boards of failing in their statutory duties and causing “intolerable” harm through their restructure.
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NewsTen ICBs accused of blocking access to private care
Private providers have accused 10 integrated care boards of blocking access to eye care, which they argue is redirecting tens of thousands of patients to A&E and GPs.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2026, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.