All Podcast articles – Page 5
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Palantir’s latest NHS deal explained
NHS England’s surprise decision to hand US tech giant Palantir a further £25m deal this week without a competitive process provoked a mixture of fury and confusion.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Live from Confed
We’re joined by Matthew Taylor, NHS Confederation chief and HSJ Health Check fan, to discuss Amanda Pritchard’s speech and other developments on day one of the ConfedExpo conference.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: 21 days stuck in A&E
This week’s Health Check discusses data revealing the true scale of long A&E waits for mental health patients and what acute trusts are trying to do about it without extra national funding.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The elective activity the NHS wants to cut – but can’t
Targets to reduce the number of outpatient appointments are not being met by trusts. On this episode, we discuss why there were still more than 124 million outpatient appointments in the NHS last year – despite pressure to cut them – and what is being done about it.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The fate of ‘40 new hospitals’
After seemingly endless delays, the fate of the ‘40 new hospitals’ has finally been revealed by the government.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The missing £1bn in capital funding
The government’s 40 “new hospitals” has dominated headlines – and decisions – over NHS capital funding in recent years, but this week HSJ revealed dozens of trusts are still waiting for money promised by the previous big capital programme.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: CDCs, the election cycle and fixing primary care
On this week’s episode bureau chief Ben Clover talks to deputy editor Dave West about whether the election cycle affects the NHS’s capital projects.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Revealed – Why Jim Mackey is back
On this week’s episode our editor Alastair McLellan reveals why NHS England’s elective recovery director Jim Mackey is replacing David Sloman as national operations lead later this year.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: ‘Cash is King’ again as deficits bite
NHS leaders are being told they must prioritise balancing the books above all else, with some trusts even being asked to keep staff numbers down to save money.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS’s latest PFI problem
A legal battle has erupted between a hospital trust and bank-backed PFI company over fire safety and payment refusals. We discuss why the case has potentially wider implications for other NHS trusts.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The latest casualties of the NHS data bidding war
A consortium of British companies has been knocked out of the hotly contested competition to win a £480m contract to provide the NHS with a new data platform.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Does the Hewitt review matter?
Patricia Hewitt’s much-anticipated review of ICS autonomy was published this week. We discuss its recommendations, the politics behind it, and what meaningful, lasting impact it could have.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast | Bad Blood: The NHS agency engulfed in a racism scandal
NHS Blood and Transplant has been embroiled in allegations of racism that stretch back several years.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS pay deal and who’s left out
This week we discuss a quirk of last week’s pay deal between health unions and the government, which could see staff at the top of Agenda for Change paid more than senior managers.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why Hunt’s spending £1bn a year to fix NHS pensions
This week we analyse the Spring Budget and what it means for the NHS, in particular the pensions tax overhaul.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Everything you need to know about the NHS staff survey
With this year’s NHS staff survey results just landed, we take a look at those invaluable annual insights into how the workforce is feeling.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Is it time to scrap foundation trusts?
Could foundation trusts be hindering the success of integrated care systems – and is it time to do away with them? One foundation trust chair thinks so and we discuss the merits of the idea on the show this week.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Julian Hartley on collaboration, reform and why he became NHS Providers’ CEO
Fresh from starting work as NHS Providers’ new chief executive, Sir Julian Hartley joins HSJ Health Check to talk about collaboration, strikes, reform and more.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Tech budget raids and wasted millions
Many NHS technology programmes are facing an uncertain future following revelations NHS England’s tech budget is being drastically cut.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What next for urgent care?
With A&E performance seemingly improving from its December lows, we discuss the new target health systems will be working towards as well as examining what changes the new executive director of urgent and emergency care has planned.