All Health Service Journal articles in October 2025
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Demystifying the online hospital
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News‘Serious concern’ over trust’s ‘financial control’ sparks NHSE intervention
One of England’s largest hospital trusts has been issued with enforcement undertakings after “failing to demonstrate effective control over expenditure”.
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NewsLong-serving hospital chief executive to retire
A long-serving hospital chief executive has announced plans to retire later this year so he can focus on his family after his wife’s cancer diagnosis.
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NewsSingle ICB finance system launches after years of delay
NHS England’s new national accounting and finance system – covering all integrated care boards and some other NHS organisations – has gone live after an 18-month delay and years of preparation.
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NewsGovernment must remember ‘it’s not 2001’, cautions DHSC chief
The government must remember “it’s not 2001” as it puts increasing focus on the performance of individual NHS providers, one of the Department of Health and Social Care’s most senior figures has warned.
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News‘Informality’ among execs undermined ‘basic’ governance at trust
A trust with “an informality” among senior leadership has been criticised over “significant weaknesses” in management controls, including weak approvals for creating new senior posts.
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CommentThe ICB and NHSE restructure threatens the service’s diversity
Restructuring on a large scale is exactly when the tenuous gains on diversity and inclusion are most at risk, write Roger Kline and Claire Barnett
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NewsTrust pays millions to settle dispute with property firm
A hospital trust has paid up to £34m to settle a long-standing property dispute with an asset management company registered in Guernsey.
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NewsFormer NHSE director to chair health alliance
Former NHS England chair Richard Meddings has been appointed to the same post at Birmingham Health Partners, an alliance of six of the city’s NHS trusts, two of its universities and the local health innovation network.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What Ian Dodge learned about legislation
The HSJ Health Check podcast is tracking development of the government’s planned Health Bill. This week, we talk to Ian Dodge, who shaped several major pieces of NHS legislation as long-serving policy lead at NHS England and the Department of Health.
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NewsMaternity units disrupted for nine months by IT fault
An IT fault has prevented several major maternity units in South London from properly storing foetal heart monitoring records for more than nine months, HSJ has learned.
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NewsConfed and Providers agree merger
The boards of NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation have agreed “provisionally” to merge in April next year.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Financial failings, online hospitals and missing governors
Your essential update on health for the week
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The government and BMA are both wrong about online GP access
Both the government and BMA misunderstand online GP access. Properly implemented triage improves patient care, efficiency, and reduces clinical risks
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News13 trusts trial procurement process designed to ‘save billions’
Thirteen trusts are piloting a procurement system that places less emphasis on price.
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NewsCuts to centre stopped under Labour
Two years of cuts to NHS England’s workforce came to an end under the first 12 months of the Labour government, despite ministers’ plans to cut the centre, figures show.
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NewsStreeting hires delivery adviser with no health experience
Wes Streeting is drafting in an education expert as his senior adviser on delivery, despite disagreements in his department about the role.
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NewsChildren’s unit to close over staffing and CQC concerns
A children’s mental health unit struggling with short staffing has been forced to close for several months, in the wake of a Care Quality Commission inspection.
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NewsExclusive: National tech chief revealed
A former consultancy boss has been hired as the new interim director general for technology, digital and data at the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNew head for innovation network
Ben Bridgewater has been appointed executive chair of the Health Innovation Network, the umbrella body for the 15 regional health innovation groups.