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News38 trusts move league table segment
Thirty-eight trusts have moved segments in the NHS England league tables for the second quarter of 2025-26, despite very few recording a significant change in their performance score.
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NewsNational maternity review branded ‘light touch’
The “rapid national investigation” into maternity care failings launched by Wes Streeting will not formally evaluate the performance of the 12 trusts involved, it has emerged, as families criticised the government’s “light touch” approach.
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NewsEx-health secretary buys NHS data firm
A former health secretary’s company has bought health data firm Dr Foster, with plans to return to its practice of highlighting poor quality care in the NHS.
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NewsNHSE director vows to ‘turn off’ funding for wasteful IT systems
NHS England will intensify its crackdown on wasteful technology spending next year as part of “radically different” approach to funding, a national director has said.
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News‘Corridor care’ approaches 1m cases a year
About 1 million A&E patients have been placed in corridors or similar “temporary” spaces over the past year, information obtained by HSJ reveals.
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CommentImproving performance means investing in managers
A new report argues that professionalising NHS management is essential for delivering the government’s 10-Year Health Plan, as public satisfaction hits record lows and workforce strain intensifies across the service
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The recipe for a new NHS CEO
Sir Jim Mackey is expected to end his tenure as “transition CEO” of NHS England next year, so we discuss what sort of candidate might be up for the “impossible” job of running the health service.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE ramps up waiting list cleaning drive
NHS England has doubled its estimate of how many cases can be wiped off the waiting list through validation this year to 600,000, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ PartnersTransforming asthma care: Driving evidence-based practice in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB
Asthma affects 7.2 million people in the UK, with annual costs to the NHS estimated at £3bn.1,2
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Money troubles
This week Ben Clover fills in for Annabelle Collins and is joined by Ella Devereux and Zoe Tidman.
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NewsRevealed: Long waits for sickest patients at ‘above average’ A&Es
Trusts within reach of NHS England’s headline A&E performance target are often dealing with only a small fraction of their sickest patients in a timely fashion, new data has revealed.
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NewsNational maternity probe ‘not apportioning blame’
The national maternity safety inquiry launched by Wes Streeting will “not investigate failing trusts or apportion blame”, its leader has said – drawing criticism from campaigning families.
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HSJ LocalFT suffering ‘ridiculous’ cash shortage after national support withheld
The former national NHS finance director has declared it “ridiculous” his trust is operating with only enough cash to cover one day, after NHS England withheld deficit support.
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Comment18 weeks recovery is still off track
The waiting list shrank too slowly to avoid long-term growth, let alone restore the 18-week standard
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NewsThousands waiting 24hrs in A&E with mental illness
One in 10 mental health patients who attended A&E in England last month stayed for more than 24 hours – and this figure rose to more than one in three in some departments, new data suggests.
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News‘Advanced FTs’ will be able to use revenue to fund capital projects
The new advanced foundation trusts will be allowed to save up and then reinvest their revenue surpluses into capital projects, according to guidance out for consultation.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Wes almost says sorry
NHS England has finally launched its long-delayed voluntary redundancy scheme. In this episode, we break down everything we know so far – and the key questions that remain.
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CommentMedical specialism is contributing to NHS inefficiency
Poor patient flow is creating unacceptable bottlenecks across the NHS, with many medically fit patients stuck in hospital beds daily, but new analysis suggests the crisis is fixable through workforce reform, seven-day discharge and better management
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Planning guidance explained – with NHS Providers’ CEO
Now that NHS England has published its planning guidance – rechristened the “medium-term planning framework” – we look at what it will mean for the service, with guest Daniel Elkeles, CEO of NHS Providers.
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HSJ PartnersRemote patient monitoring: the NHS’s missing data set for system transformation
Luscii’s Jonathan Lewis shares how live patient data, integrated into shared care and population health, could unlock prevention-first care at scale