All Health Service Journal articles in September 2025
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in July 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsCEO accelerates exit from £2bn trust
The CEO of an embattled trust dealing with service failings and cultural issues is standing down with immediate effect, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHospital group loses chair while CEO is on long-term absence
The chair of a trust group where the CEO has been off work since April has announced he is stepping down.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Big demands, high performers and low returns
Your essential update on health for the week
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CommentWhat really matters to the public about the NHS
The 18-week target is the government’s top NHS priority, but this is not what matters most to the public, explains Tim Gardner
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LeaderWhy Claire Murdoch quit
It is to the former national director for mental health Claire Murdoch’s credit that she stuck with her role for more than a year under the current government.
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News‘Serious risk of imminent breakdown’ for maternity units, admits NHSE
Many maternity and newborn units are at “serious risk of imminent breakdown”, regularly hit by leaks and floods, and too cramped to provide the necessary care, an official NHS England report admits.
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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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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Will league tables lead to hitting the target but missing the point?
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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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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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The £3m exercise without answers
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE director resigns, claiming politicians wanted ‘change at the top’
Claire Murdoch, NHS England’s national mental health director for the last nine years, has today resigned “with immediate effect”.
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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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PodcastHSJ Podcast: How to win the (NHS) league
The HSJ Health Check podcast returns this week, just as NHS England unveils new performance rankings for every trust in England.
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NewsKey target hit for sixth straight month
Ambulance services have met a key target for the sixth month running, for the first time since the pandemic.
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HSJ LocalHospitals ‘turn off’ waiting list help for neighbours
A major acute provider has said other trusts have “turned off” their assistance in driving down elective backlogs – meaning progress on long waits is “not as quick as it could be”.
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NewsDHSC seeks £120m saving from 'unwarranted price variation'
The Department of Health and Social Care is recruiting expert advisers to help update the list of prescribable products in community settings in a bid to save up to £120m.
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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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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The buck stops with them
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsBest and worst for hospital experience named by CQC
More patients reported a “good” experience of inpatient care in 2024, even though most trusts have still not caught up with pre-pandemic performance, a Care Quality Commission survey has revealed.