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CommentHow the NHS Assembly used its soft power to effect change
Created in 2019, the NHS Assembly united diverse perspectives from across health and care to support NHS England’s leadership and long-term vision
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CommentSorry – but we need to restructure the NHS again
The NHS is fast approaching a fork in the road which many in the service, knee-deep in change, may not yet have considered – whether to embrace devolution or explain exceptionalism. This choice will help determine our future role in public service delivery and the potential end state of the ...
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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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Expert BriefingImPatient: Nothing about us without us – A reprise
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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NewsStreeting: ‘Uncomfortable’ redundancy delays are ‘on me’
The health secretary has said the uncertainty hanging over ICB staff has made him “uncomfortable” and that he has not resolved redundancies quickly enough.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A regional rollout for AI
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 and Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsHospitals will ‘narrowly miss elective target’ to save the bottom line
Hospitals will hit financial targets this year but fall “slightly short” of their waiting-list objectives – as they were “explicitly” told that reducing deficits was “more important” – the NHS Providers’ CEO has predicted.
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NewsNew Hospital Programme ‘close’ to deal on private finance
The New Hospital Programme is “quite close” to agreeing a plan with the Treasury to use private finance for smaller schemes such as car parks and energy centres, according to the project’s outgoing boss.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Following Estonia’s lead
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 Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: This year’s planning guidance is better but still deeply flawed
Steve Black assesses the NHS planning guidance for 2026-27 to 2028-29 – aka the “medium term planning framework”.
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NewsUpdated: NHSE suspends planned consultant contract to fix NHS board performance
NHS England has suspended a planned contract to spend £15.6m on management consultants to create an NHS board improvement programme to build capability and iron out variable performance across local organisations.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The path to ‘digital by default’ is now clearer
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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NewsNHSE picks seven trusts for £5bn investment
NHS England has announced the seven trusts it intends to award contracts totalling £5bn to run the NHS Genomic Medicine Service over the next decade.
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CommentI felt unsafe as a visually impaired NHS cancer patient
Patient safety doesn’t begin on a ward or in a theatre, but with communication, writes Anna Tylor
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NewsJoint NHSE-DHSC leadership team revealed
NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have set out how the service will be jointly led by the two organisations until their formal merger is complete sometime in 2027.
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NewsLocal systems must ‘comply’ with new medicines access policy
NHS England wants to standardise local drug formulary teams and operations while it develops a single national formulary over the next two years, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Windows on the world
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 Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentWe need a national end-of-life delivery plan
As leaders of the UK’s largest palliative care charities, the chief executives of Marie Curie and Sue Ryder set out how the hospice sector must evolve
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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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NewsNHSE’s improvement teams axed
NHS England’s elective, emergency care and mental health improvement support teams are being axed – and their staff and functions merged into the Getting it Right First Time programme, HSJ has learned.