All Health Service Journal articles in October 2025 – Page 4
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NewsStreeting accused of ignoring nurses’ safety warning
Wes Streeting has failed to respond to an “urgent” warning from a clinical group that safety is being compromised by gaps in community services, HSJ has been told.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A risk too far
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. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Delayed discharge price tag revealed
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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NewsMackey demands sign-off on disruptive tech deployments
NHS England’s chief executive is requiring personal sign-off before allowing new major hospital IT systems to be switched on, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local650 patients reviewed for harm after dropping off waiting list
A trust is reviewing potential harm to 650 patients who were lost from its waiting lists, some of whom have waited more than 15 months.
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LeaderUsing the patient to smash the NHS begging bowl
This government’s reform of the NHS is best understood as a drive to reconfigure the economics of the public sector – which is increasingly dominated by healthcare spending. This will give the campaign of change a distinctly different flavour to the recovery mission Labour undertook during the first decade of ...
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NewsInquiry chair: No time to ‘co-produce’ with families
Families have been told they cannot “co-produce” an investigation into how they were failed by maternity services because of the “timetable given” by government.
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CommentPharma is working to boost drug availability, not prices
Victoria Jordan, director of value and access policy at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), explores how medicine pricing affects patient access, research investment, and the sustainability of the UK health system
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Skills for patient leaders and other humans
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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NewsOverall CQC ratings to be reintroduced
The Care Quality Commission is proposing to reintroduce overall care quality ratings for trusts, and put more weight on “expert professional judgement”, in an overhaul of its assessments.
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NewsPM: NHS is failing to deal with antisemitism
The government has announced a “short, sharp review” of antisemitism in the NHS, with the prime minister saying some cases are ”simply not being dealt with”.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Patients in the driving seat
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Can patients save the NHS?
This week, the HSJ Health Check podcast explores how Labour hopes a fundamental change in the relationship between patients and services can turn the NHS around.
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NewsHR firm called in over chair-CEO clash
An HR firm has carried out an investigation into a trust group’s CEO and chair following a breakdown in their relationship, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalTop CEO steps down after more than 45 years in NHS
East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust’s respected and sometimes controversial chief executive, Nick Hulme, is stepping down after more than 45 years in the NHS.
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NewsHospital removed 1,000 patients from waiting list 'retrospectively'
A hospital trust has removed more than 1,000 patients from its waiting list by retrospectively applying referral criteria, which local GPs have said is disruptive and unsafe.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: ECIST ceases to exist, clicks beat calls and uplift is a downer
Your essential update on health for the week
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HSJ PartnersCybersecurity in the NHS: Beyond the ransomware headlines
Recent cyber attacks on NHS services underscore the need for trusts to adopt a broader approach to cybersecurity, writes Leigh Jolly, change and information security lead at Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: It does not matter that Streeting’s new adviser has no health experience
A new NHS delivery unit is to be led by an education expert, but despite the criticism this news sparked, it may yet be successful
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News‘Urgent’ inquiry into major trust called by Streeting
Ministers have taken what they described as the “exceptional step” of launching an “urgent” independent inquiry into maternity and neonatal care failings at one of England’s biggest teaching trusts.