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NewsICB faces potential legal battle over funding row
Three GP practices are threatening to sue their integrated care board over its plans to cut premises funding.
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NewsNorth-south divide opens up in ambulance services
Every ambulance trust in the south of England is missing the national category 2 response target so far this year, while all three northern trusts are inside it after a more sustained recovery.
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NewsWorst-rated trust gets new CEO for six months
The worst-rated acute trust in England has hired an experienced interim chief executive while its incumbent takes leave.
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NewsICBs face £6m legal bill as ‘complex’ contract dispute drags on
Two thirds of integrated care boards have been caught up in a multi-million-pound legal challenge brought by a waste management firm.
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NewsCEO who left for Gibraltar joins struggling trust
A leading trust chief executive who left the NHS to run Gibraltar’s health system has returned as an interim appointment at one of England’s largest providers.
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NewsUnder-fire trust pauses CEO recruitment
A major trust under intense scrutiny over quality and governance concerns has paused its search for a permanent chief executive.
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NewsLetby trust criticised over fetus storage
The trust where Lucy Letby worked has been heavily criticised for how it looks after the bodies of fetuses.
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NewsICB orders all GPs to use ‘distrusted’ IT system
An integrated care board has ordered all of its 337 GP practices to use a single digital access system and is switching off five rival products to save money.
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HSJ LocalWe’re providing ‘pretty awful’ care, says CEO
A hospital trust is providing a “pretty awful” standard of care, its interim chief executive has declared.
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HSJ LocalBoard shake-up at ailing hospital group
The chair of a large hospital group has announced he will be stepping down after three years, amid a major board shake-up.
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HSJ LocalManagers ‘should not feel affronted’ by Letby inquiry, says CEO
No NHS leader “should feel affronted” at being reminded of basic duties towards patients by the Letby inquiry, the chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust has said.
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NewsBoards must ‘never again treat baby safety as side issue’, says Cooper
Maternity and neonatal services “cannot operate on the margins,” and deaths of babies and children must be investigated as a priority by NHS boards, the health and social care secretary has warned.
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NewsInquiry chief delivers scathing verdict on NHS managers
Too many managers do not meet the standards expected of them, and there is an “urgent” need to improve quality, a major inquiry has found.
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NewsLargest trust overhauls procurement practices after HSJ probe
The largest trust in the NHS has had to overhaul its procurement processes after problems with a 12-year consultancy contract were exposed by HSJ.
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HSJ LocalSecond trust’s delay telling Southport victims of data breaches was ‘appalling’
An ambulance trust waited nearly two months before informing victims of the 2024 Southport attack that their patient records may have been accessed inappropriately by staff, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsLeading joint health and care deal falls foul of financial pressures
NHS financial pressures and reforms have brought about the end of one of the largest local joint health and social care funding arrangements.
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NewsFour hospitals hit by strike in overtime dispute
Hundreds of operating theatre staff are to strike at four hospitals in Greater Manchester due to a dispute around overtime payments.
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NewsNHS breeds leaders who are ‘too insular’, says ex-ICB chief
The NHS has some of the best leaders in the public service, but they often have a mindset that is too insular, according to a former ICB chief and senior civil servant.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts that failed to sign up to NHSE’s financial plans
Ten trusts and one integrated care board had still not provided financially compliant plans for 2026-27 by the end of the first quarter, according to NHS England’s latest data.
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HSJ LocalStrikes at two hospitals extended
A fresh round of strikes set to last 20 days has been announced at hospitals in Lancashire in a row over holiday pay.