All Health Service Journal articles in September 2025 – Page 9
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why the NHS is going private for cancer checks
This week we discuss an exclusive story about a major expansion of cancer testing centres that will see the private sector take on a bigger role delivering NHS services.
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NewsStrikes to hit three trusts over SubCo plans
Workers at three trusts are set to strike over plans to outsource roles, with their union warning there will be national walkouts over SubCo plans.
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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 Integrator: An NHS takeover of the DHSC
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Union strikes to sink subs
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsGovernment steps in to ‘accelerate’ AI in the NHS
AI regulation will be clarified by a major commission to help the NHS and investors “accelerate uptake”, the government has announced.
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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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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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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Broken trust, false readings and striking staff
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Maternity services need change now, not in 2030
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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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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News‘Unacceptable’ cuts to bank and agency rates must be reversed, says BMA
Doctors are threatening action against coordinated moves in two areas to cut rates for extra-contractual work.
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CommentWe risk losing the NHS analysts vital to delivering reforms
Analysts are crucial to delivering the NHS 10-Year Health Plan, but reorganisation and underinvestment threaten to undermine reform ambitions, says Neil Morgan
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NewsStreeting forces NHSE U-turn on subcos
NHS England has rowed back on its insistence that all trusts “have or use” wholly owned subsidiary companies to run ancillary services following intervention from the health and social care secretary.
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NewsICB broke commissioning rules on £92m contract
An integrated care board broke commissioning regulations when trying to secure a contract for a system-wide mental health service, according to the independent oversight panel.
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Daily InsightThe Mythbuster: NHS data is in a mess and AI can’t fix it
England’s fragmented approach to publishing A&E performance data creates barriers to analysis, contrasting sharply with Scotland’s accessible single-file datasets. It also raises questions about AI’s promised productivity gains
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HSJ PartnersTransforming obesity care: how medicines optimisation can deliver sustainable outcomes
Obesity is one of the greatest public health challenges we face today, with more than a quarter of adults in England living with obesity, and the consequences – ranging from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease to musculoskeletal problems and certain cancers – placing immense strain on both patients and ...
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LeaderWhat the centre really expects of ICBs, trusts and regions in 2026
If HSJ were in a betting mood, we would lay a large sum on the re-organisation of integrated care boards stretching on well into 2026-27.
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NewsCEO appointed at ICB cluster
An integrated care board “cluster” has named its chief executive, as decisions are finalised about leadership of the newly consolidated ICB landscape.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Who performance manages now?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.