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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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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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CommentOccupational therapy can save the planet
Occupational therapists are vital to a greener NHS. In this article, Jacqueline Gordon shows how OT-led care – like early intervention, digital rehab and equipment reuse – improves outcomes, cuts emissions and saves money.
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NewsCQC turnaround ‘on track’, despite ‘disruptive’ CEO departure
The turnaround of the Care Quality Commission is “on track” despite the sudden and unexpected loss of its chief executive, according to its new chief inspector of hospitals.
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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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NewsStreeting’s maternity review delayed ‘by doctors strikes’
The “rapid national investigation” into maternity and neonatal services will no longer publish its interim findings this year, claiming its work has been delayed by this month’s resident doctors strike.
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NewsTrust admits failings after absconded girl’s death
A hospital trust faces a substantial fine after admitting staff failed to follow a teenage girl with mental health problems who absconded from a hospital ward and then killed herself.
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NewsDemanding A&E, elective and cancer targets for 2026-27 revealed
Trusts have been told to treat 82 per cent of A&E attendees within four hours next year, and must also hit a slew of other new targets revealed in the latest planning guidance.
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NewsInquiry chair: No time to ‘co-produce’ with families
Families have been told they cannot “co-produce” an investigation into how they were failed by maternity services because of the “timetable given” by government.
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NewsStreeting accused of ignoring nurses’ safety warning
Wes Streeting has failed to respond to an “urgent” warning from a clinical group that safety is being compromised by gaps in community services, HSJ has been told.
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NewsPrivate service accused of ‘poor governance’ after death
An NHS-funded private surgery service has been accused of “poor clinical governance” and “fragmentation” from the NHS, after a patient died.
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NewsNational scheme to support families after baby deaths faces axe
An “overwhelmingly valued” pilot support scheme for families who have lost a child before or shortly after birth has been paused to new referrals and is being “brought to a close”, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in August 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsTop 10 trust served warning notice as quality ‘declines significantly’
A trust ranked in the top 10 of the government’s new provider league table for the mental health and community sector has been served with a warning notice after a Care Quality Commission inspection found multiple breaches of regulations.
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CommentWhy new NHS buildings are not ready for patients on opening day
New NHS buildings are often declared complete before they are ready to start operating. Poor planning leaves staff unprepared and patients at risk, writes Michelle Higgins
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NewsChildren’s unit to close over staffing and CQC concerns
A children’s mental health unit struggling with short staffing has been forced to close for several months, in the wake of a Care Quality Commission inspection.
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CommentLeague tables won’t save lives – transparency will
Mid Staffs showed the dangers of chasing targets. New NHS league tables risk repeating these mistakes, endangering patient safety
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NewsExclusive: Mackey’s trust gets league table upgrade after last-minute data correction
The trust led by NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey was promoted from the third to the second “segment” of the new provider league table following a last-minute correction to one of the data points which underpin the rankings, HSJ can reveal.
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News‘Lack of curiosity’ contributed to stillbirths, review finds
An area with high stillbirth rates has found there were “significant” gaps in maternity care in more than one in five cases, in a newly published review.
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NewsHospitals falling far short of national quality target
The NHS fell well short of its goal to offer the best standard of acute stroke treatment to 10 per cent of patients last year, with some units carrying out the procedure only once a week.