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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.
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HSJ LocalWomen put at ‘unacceptable’ risk by ‘deviating’ service
Pregnant women were put at “unacceptable risk” by a service which was “deviat[ing] from guidelines”, had poor “surgical competency”, and was over-reliant on a single consultant at “significant risk of burnout”.
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News16 trusts ‘streamlined’ towards advanced FT status
Sixteen trusts are entering a “streamlined” application process to become advanced foundation trusts, NHS England has announced.
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NewsGP access improving as more go online
The share of patients reporting a good experience when contacting their GP practice has increased for the second year running, while the number going online has increased, new figures show.
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NewsShift out of hospitals must be ‘realistic’, warn doctors
A royal college has added to concerns that a shift in NHS funding to expand “neighbourhood” care risks undermining “safe, sustainable hospital services”.
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NewsThree dead after hospital failed to stop rogue consultant
Patients with lung disease suffered harm or died after treatment was repeatedly delayed or replaced with alternatives which had no evidence base, an independent review has found.
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NewsTrusts ‘must use’ new FDP tools, says minister
Trusts will be instructed on federated data platform tools they “must” use, a minister has said – despite ongoing questions about whether the system and its main supplier will be dropped.
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NewsCEO warns against ‘top slicing’ acutes for ‘well meaning’ neighbourhood schemes
Large acute trusts are shouldering unreasonable risk because their funding has been “top sliced” to pay for “well meaning” but unproven “neighbourhood health” schemes, a leading London CEO has told HSJ.
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NewsPrison or sacking for snooping staff, Mackey says
Staff could face the sack or even time in prison if they access patient records without a legitimate reason, Sir Jim Mackey has warned.
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NewsMackey: We need independent review of FDP
The chief executive of NHS England has backed a review of Palantir’s effectiveness amid increasing criticism of claims about the software provider’s benefits.
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NewsHold us to account on building homes for staff, says minister
The NHS should hold government to account on delivering a new promise to use private finance to build housing for staff, a health minister has told HSJ.
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News‘Clear consequences’ for leaders who fail to tackle racism
Board members will be held accountable for tackling workplace racism via personal objectives that must be made public under new national standards.
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NewsTrusts lose ‘red’ ratings after curbing deficits
NHS England has promoted two hospital trusts from its worst “capability” score after they improved their financial performance at the end of 2025-26.
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NewsOnline hospital risks ‘leaving behind’ mental health, top CEO warns
Mental health is at risk of being “left behind” by the first online NHS hospital, a top mental health chief executive has said.