All Podcast articles – Page 7
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Who is Therese Coffey?
As a new secretary of state takes up the reins, HSJ examines the situation she inherits and what she might do.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The DHSC’s opening move in the NHS efficiency war
The NHS has been told by the government to cut management consultancy spend and completely freeze recruitment at a national level.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The NHS’s most dangerous buildings
This week HSJ revealed the final trusts added to the ‘new hospital’ programme, which are also thought to have some of the most dangerous estates in the NHS.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: ICSs - 1 Trusts - nil
Significant tensions between a mental health trust and an ICS have prompted the trust’s chief executive to resign.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Tories tinker while the NHS is on fire
The NHS needs “fewer layers of management” – this remark, made by Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss, is one of the first significant comments made about the NHS by either candidate this summer.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The A&E target conundrum continues
This week, we revisit the thorny subject of accident and emergency standards, following calls for a new six-hour target to be introduced.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Crumbling services, but who’s in charge?
Hospital leaders have warned there is a lack of accountability in the NHS, adding this could undermine public and political trust in the service.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The pay award quirk that could be the final straw
The NHS must find the money to fund an extra £2bn of the staff pay bill, after the government decided to increase it beyond the 3 per cent rise that was budgeted for.
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PodcastHow big should NHS England be? - HSJ podcast
On Monday night all ambulance services in England declared the highest level of alert.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Barclay’s in-tray cancer crisis
Tough times are ahead for the NHS, with a “nightmare” new health and social care secretary appointed and performance spiralling.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The hardest job in the NHS
The NHS is facing a major reorganisation this year, including within NHS England itself.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Race, inequalities and NHS ConfedExpo
Race and racism in NHS leadership and workforce, and health inequalities, are the subject of this week’s HSJ Health Check podcast.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Dispatches from Liverpool
This week the news team bring you the podcast from the NHS Confed/Expo conference in Liverpool.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Ali Parsa is back in the news
This week our focus is on new ways of delivering care in the NHS.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Boris Johnson’s ‘new hospitals’ in jeopardy
“Our project is in jeopardy.” This is the verdict of one trust working on long-needed major hospital redevelopments, which were promised by the government in the run-up to the 2019 general election.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: NHS England’s unhappiest people
On this week’s episode, we discuss NHS England’s leaked staff survey results, which reveal the best and worst performing departments and regions, and deliver a particularly worrying verdict on the People Directorate.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Secret merger mania
Three further acute trusts are considering a move to joint leadership, HSJ has learned, and mental health hubs for NHS staff are being underused – we analyse both issues on this week’s HSJ Health Check podcast.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: ICSs under threat from devolution frenzy
A plethora of complex governance arrangements are being set up in and around ICSs – which are only just due to become statutory. We discuss why these complications might hinder successful service change.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Is infection control relaxation worth the risk?
The NHS has been told to scale back infection control measures, but what will this mean for staff and patients?
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The ICS rebellion and exec diversity declines
NHS England has asked systems to ensure their financial plans break even this year – but this is easier said than done when many face deficits of over £100m.