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CommentWhat if inquiries rehearsed their recommendations?
As the Thirlwall Inquiry highlights NHS patient safety, systems simulation can help test inquiry recommendations before they reach real wards and patients
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Recognising risk, listening to patients and acting early
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsAt least 20% of baby deaths ‘potentially avoidable’
At least a fifth of baby deaths last year may have been preventable, with this estimate considered “a minimum”, an analysis of thousands of care reviews has concluded.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: ‘Perv glasses’ in the consultation room
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 and Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentPrescribing how to improve productivity does not work
The NHS needs fewer targets and more stability if local leaders are to make the decisions that improve productivity
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NewsHigh repeat surgery rates under review at five trusts
At least five trusts are reviewing their rates of repeat breast cancer surgery after recording levels significantly above the maximum expected level, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: NHSE plan to ‘grip’ GP performance
NHS England intends to “improve operational grip” on GP performance and has warned it may lead to “contractual action”.
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NewsNHSE ‘bringing in staff without due process’
NHS England’s internal whistleblowing champions raised concerns that the organisation is bringing in staff “without due process”.
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NewsCEO drafted in to lead trust out of hospital group
A new chief executive has been appointed to oversee Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust’s departure from its troubled group with Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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NewsPatients face risk of harm as hospital group splits
Details of the serious concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission about the collapsing Humber Health Partnership hospital group have been uncovered by HSJ.
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NewsEx-minister would sack half of managers he has met ‘in a heartbeat’
An ex-health minister has said he would sack half of the NHS managers he has met “in a heartbeat” for not being good enough.
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CommentAccessible comms are a duty not a courtesy
Accessible communication isn’t an administrative bonus – it is a core clinical duty that directly impacts patient safety, dignity, and NHS efficiency
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NewsAccounting error forces trust to downgrade forecast by £6m
The NHS’s worst-performing mental health trust had to adjust its accounts to record a £2.9m deficit after external auditors found it had wrongly classified £6m as an efficiency saving.
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CommentBlame is not the same as accountability
The Thirlwall Inquiry exposes a fatal failure to investigate harm. Rebuilding patient safety requires truth, not scapegoating
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NewsTrust faces decade-long review after hundreds of harm cases discovered
More than 300 cases of patient harm have been identified at a North East trust reviewing major care and governance failings in its breast cancer service.
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NewsJudge to examine trust’s care failings
Government has named a chair for its public inquiry into care and governance failings at a mental health trust – nine months after the probe was promised.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Getting sued 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 Ella Devereux and Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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HSJ LocalManagers ‘should not feel affronted’ by Letby inquiry, says CEO
No NHS leader “should feel affronted” at being reminded of basic duties towards patients by the Letby inquiry, the chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust has said.
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NewsTougher sanctions on senior managers demanded by Letby inquiry
The government must introduce a statutory barring system for managers by September next year, an inquiry has said – but warned it will only work if trusts are more willing to confront serious misconduct.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The good, the moving-the-deck-chairs, and the positively bad
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt