All Health Service Journal articles in October 2025 – Page 2
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CommentWhy new NHS buildings are not ready for patients on opening day
New NHS buildings are often declared complete before they are ready to start operating. Poor planning leaves staff unprepared and patients at risk, writes Michelle Higgins
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NewsDHSC GP adviser steps down
Wes Streeting’s neighbourhood health and primary care lead is stepping down, after less than a year in the role and having recently launched an implementation programme.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Are NHS finances too good to be true?
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsComparing trusts on new productivity metric is misleading, experts warn
Recent productivity improvements will be hard to sustain in future years, experts have warned, as they said newly published NHS England data fails to show which trusts are the most productive.
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News‘Wild West’ of AI suppliers face new NHSE checks
A new national registry for ambient voice technology providers to combat the “Wild West” of suppliers is due to launch this week, England’s national chief clinical information officer has announced.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Paying for AVT
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 Ben Clover, Joe Talora and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsNHSE delays radical changes to payment system
Radical changes proposed to the health service’s internal financial wiring will not take place in 2026-27, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Let go of your egos’, national tech director tells NHS leaders
The “egos” of NHS leaders are slowing the service’s adoption of new technology, according to an NHS England director.
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CommentBecoming a strategic commissioner means treating patients as partners
The pandemic exposed how trust in the NHS had “fallen off a cliff”, particularly among excluded communities. A North West London Integrated Care Board leader argues that genuine co-production – not tick box engagement – is essential for rebuilding relationships and improving health outcomes
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: She’s coming for your ugly baby
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTop 10 trust served warning notice as quality ‘declines significantly’
A trust ranked in the top 10 of the government’s new provider league table for the mental health and community sector has been served with a warning notice after a Care Quality Commission inspection found multiple breaches of regulations.
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NewsNHSE director steps down to chair care scandal trust
An NHS England national director is stepping down to become chair of a mental health trust at the centre of a public inquiry.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Sunset of the EPRs?
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 Ben Clover, Joe Talora and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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LeaderThe government will pay for its mistreatment of ICB and NHSE staff
If you are a) an NHS employee who works as a commissioner or in a system role, and b) have been only moderately unlucky, you might have spent a good part of the past 15 years wondering if you would still have a job in a few months’ time, inundated ...
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Scorched earth policy could devour all
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS’s ugly baby
This week we take a look at two of the hottest topics in the NHS – productivity and technology.
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NewsDiagnostics performance slides despite NHSE hailing ‘record summer’
Performance on the NHS’s main diagnostic target has dropped back a year despite efforts to increase capacity and ramp up activity, figures published on Thursday show.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Some progress but blame culture still persists
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsNew Hospital Programme boss quits for HS2
The top NHS England official for the programme to build a wave of “new hospitals” that has faced major delays is leaving for a senior role at HS2.
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CommentWaiting list grows for third consecutive month
The waiting list should shrink every month to achieve the 18-weeks pledge in 2029