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NewsICBs axe crisis car service
Most of London is to lose its mental health response cars after three integrated care boards withdrew funding.
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CommentThe artificial slowdown in the use of private sector providers must end
NHS elective recovery targets risk being undermined by late-year activity caps and funding constraints, highlighting the need for stable, strategic partnerships with independent providers
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2026, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentThe NHS does not know where it is succeeding or failing
The 10-Year Health Plan’s promise to spread best practice through greater transparency risks falling short. Many ICBs lack the basic data needed to track whether services meet national standards or identify what works best
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NewsCEO blames group model for trusts’ collapse
Bringing two trusts together in a group led to problems with governance, accountability and the visibility of leaders, the organisations’ interim chief executive has admitted.
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NewsMackey delays two more EPR launches
NHS England has intervened to delay the roll-out of electronic patient record systems at two trusts, due to major concerns over the operational impact.
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NewsExclusive: Nine trusts put in NHSE turnaround regime
Nine trusts have been placed in NHS England’s new turnaround regime for the country’s most challenged trusts, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsBoards urged to ‘take ownership’ to avoid corridor care
Trust boards can “virtually eliminate” corridor care with “the right leadership ambition and focus”, including more walking wards and corridors, NHS England has said.
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NewsRevealed: Best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food
NHS England has revealed the best and worst hospitals for cleanliness, food and privacy, as judged by patients.
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NewsFamilies fear ‘cycle of diagnosis without delivery’ over maternity review
Poor accountability and familiar systemic failures were highlighted in the latest report from the government’s “rapid” maternity review – leading bereaved families to warn against it becoming “another cycle of diagnosis without delivery”.
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NewsNHSE declares ‘rescue plan’ to limit delayed ops
NHS England has set out a “rescue package” that it claims will help limit the number of delays to joint operations, following a major production failure at the provider which supplies more than 80 per cent of the service’s medical cement.
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CommentUnder-pressure boards abandon curiosity for grip at their peril
When under strain, boards signal what truly matters, and those signals decide whether learning thrives, stalls, or disappears when needed most
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NewsOrtho cement shortage no excuse for not improving elective performance, warns NHSE
Trusts must not let the “disastrous” shortage of orthopaedic cement affect their elective care performance, according to new national guidance.
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NewsWidescale delays to hip ops ‘crushing blow’ for patients
Hospitals are being forced to postpone large numbers of hip and knee operations for the coming months after NHS England’s main cement supplier suffered a major production failure in what has been described as a “crushing blow” for patients.
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CommentCan health policy really be evidence-based?
Research evidence is indispensable in NHS decision-making, but it was never designed to answer the kinds of contextual, system-level choices boards and policymakers must make
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CommentSlow NHS decision-making makes it vulnerable to cyber attacks
When time-critical risks escalate, NHS governance that treats delay as neutral can unintentionally amplify harm and undermine patient safety
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NewsNHSE to revive 2000s-style improvement collaboratives
NHS England plans to revive compulsory “structured improvement collaboratives” for outpatients, urgent and emergency care, and frailty services – in an echo of the Modernisation Agency approach of the 2000s.
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NewsNHSE to take greater risks on data sharing
NHS England is increasing its “risk appetite” for sharing performance and care quality data around the service and with the public, and claims that in future it will seek ”legal and governance advice” less often.
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NewsKey cancer target pushed back seven years
Ministers have pushed back the NHS’s objective to diagnose more cancers at an earlier stage by nearly seven years, in their new 10-year cancer plan.
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NewsRevealed: Bid to overhaul key emergency target
National officials are in talks about a major overhaul of the ambulance response time target that covers more than half of emergency calls.