Nick Carding
Senior correspondent Nick writes about technology, estates --- especially the health infrastructure plan --- and environmental sustainability. He joined HSJ in March 2017 but began his journalism career in 2012 when he joined the Newark Advertiser as a sports and news reporter.
Three years later he became health correspondent at the Eastern Daily Press and was shortlisted for Specialist and Young Journalist of the Year at the Regional Press Awards (2017). He was also highly commended in the Mental Health Story of the Year category at the Medical Journalism Awards in 2016.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 020 7608 9069
- Email:
- nicholas.carding@hsj.co.uk
- News
Pritchard ‘disgusted’ by IT supplier’s ‘racist and violent’ comments
Amanda Pritchard says she “completely shares” concerns about the “racist, sexist and violent” comments alleged to have been made by the chief executive of an NHS IT supplier.
- News
Exclusive: Australian AI firm set to win key NHS AI contracts
An Australian tech firm, which is partly backed by one of China’s richest people, is set to win the majority of contracts to deploy new AI diagnosis tools across the NHS, HSJ has learned.
- News
Trusts underspend tech funding despite NHSE push
NHS England’s flagship tech budget to digitise hospitals will be underspent this year, prompting fresh concern about crucial transformation funding not reaching the frontline.
- HSJ Local
Long-time provider CEO joins struggling trust
One of the worst performing acute trusts for emergency care has appointed a new interim leader who comes from an eight-year break from English CEO roles.
- Expert Briefing
The Download: Fifth trust joins the tech elite club
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by senior correspondent Nicholas Carding. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
- Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: Where four out of five CEOs are new
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
- HSJ Local
CEO admits ‘risk aversion’ clogging up hospitals
Medics and managers must overcome a system-wide “aversion” to risk after their integrated care system was identified as a national outlier for low numbers of patients discharged home, according to the ICS’s chief executive.
- HSJ Local
‘Oldest NHS IT system’ to be replaced
An acute/community trust is set to implement a “game-changing” electronic patient record which will replace one of the oldest IT systems in the NHS, according to its chief executive.
- HSJ Local
Manager and doctor ‘camaraderie’ eroded by strikes, ICBs warn
“Camaraderie” between NHS managers and senior doctors has been eroded during the past year of medical strikes, a review by several integrated care boards has warned.
- HSJ Local
‘Risk to intensive care’ at hospital where DHSC delayed rebuild
Hospital chiefs are warning of “significant risks” to patient services caused by obsolete infrastructure which needs modernising sooner than current government plans stipulate.
- HSJ Local
Trust names first new chair in 10 years
An acute and community trust in one of the country’s most challenged systems has announced a replacement for its long-serving chair, who will leave the organisation in May.
- HSJ Local
Trust ‘long way off’ EPR benefits a year after launch
A trust is a “long way” from achieving the expected benefits of an electronic patient record system 15 months after launch, and it is still disrupting mortality data, its leaders have admitted.
- Expert Briefing
The Download: The rise of digital nurse leaders
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by senior correspondent Nicholas Carding. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
- Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: A £2.5m bureaucratic nightmare
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
- News
No ‘lawful basis’ for FDP, lawyer warns NHSE
Campaigners have warned they may take legal action if NHS England refuses to conduct a public consultation into the Federated Data Platform, adding that the health service currently has no “lawful basis” to process patient data in this way.
- Expert Briefing
The Download: Quarter of ICSs lack key tech strategies
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by senior correspondent Nicholas Carding. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
- News
Revealed: the 27 ICSs without a plan to combat cyber attacks
At least half of all integrated care systems lack a plan to defend the services they oversee from a cyber attack, HSJ has discovered.
- HSJ Local
Widespread failings discovered in EPR launch linked to patient death
“Better upfront planning, training and testing” were needed in a tech launch which was tied to patient harm and service disruption, an NHS England review has found.
- Expert Briefing
The Download: Emergence of convergence
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by senior correspondent Nicholas Carding. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
- Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: New year, same story?
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.