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NewsDHSC GP adviser steps down
Wes Streeting’s neighbourhood health and primary care lead is stepping down, after less than a year in the role and having recently launched an implementation programme.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Demystifying the online hospital
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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News‘Online hospital’ to open in 2027, says PM
Plans for a new NHS “online hospital” service to deliver millions of appointments each year by “digitally connecting patients to specialist clinicians” are set to be unveiled by the prime minister today.
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News‘Philosophical intent’ will guide new NHS workforce plan
The government’s 10-Year Workforce Plan will focus on “a philosophical intent of what roles we need” rather than “prescriptive numbers” on staffing requirements, a health minister has said.
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NewsExclusive: Report delivers damning verdict on Labour’s ‘muddy’ health policy
The government’s health policy is incoherent, lacking in detail and under-resourced, a highly critical report by a leading think tank on Labour’s first year in power has concluded.
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CommentImpenetrable, slow and fragmented: The NHS must do better on innovation
A new report lays bare the significant obstacles hindering innovation in the NHS as well as sharing possible solutions, writes Professor Rebecca Shipley
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Last of the £2bn laggards
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by Ben Clover and Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsCare assessments should stay with ICBs, NHSE told
Responsibility for continuing healthcare should stay with integrated care boards, an expert group assembled by NHS England has recommended.
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NewsBonus fund led to ‘March madness’ and possible gaming in A&E
A royal college has raised fundamental concerns that an NHS England incentive scheme may have been “gamed” and that this led to what one senior figure branded a “March Madness” in urgent and emergency care performance.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The last Next Big Thing
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by Ben Clover and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentWaiting list veers off track
When the effects of validation petered out in July, the waiting list started growing
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News£114k performance bonus for new DHSC commercial director
The Department of Health and Social Care’s new director general for commercial and growth could receive annual remuneration of £342,000 if they are awarded their full bonus.
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NewsClinicians’ concerns have held up outpatient reform, says Mackey
NHS England’s outpatients recovery efforts have been stymied by a lack of funding and because “we’ve struggled to get the clinical community uniformly behind it”, Sir Jim Mackey has told MPs.
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NewsGovernment spent £3m on 10-Year Plan engagement
The government spent more than £3m on the engagement exercise for its 10-Year Health Plan, a health minister has revealed.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The AVT will hear you now
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentWe don’t need a ‘national blueprint’ for neighbourhood care
While the NHS Neighbourhood Programme marks a welcome step towards addressing health inequalities, it risks repeating past mistakes unless it abandons centrally prescribed solutions and truly empowers local communities
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NewsICBs told to ‘urgently review unacceptable waiting times’
NHS England has warned integrated care boards it is “not acceptable” to set “minimum waiting times” of more than 18 weeks for elective care.
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NewsFive new directors join NHSE board
Government is overhauling the board of NHS England with five high-profile new non-executive directors.
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NewsBoards told to rate their own ‘capability’
Trust leaders have been told to rate their own boards’ “capability” under new rules that could influence which providers are put in a new special measures regime.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Reality bites for AI hype
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.