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CommentMaking robotic surgery financially sustainable for the NHS
Without a mixed-procedure ecosystem, the NHS’s robotic surgical revolution risks clinical brilliance being paired with financial failure
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CommentSuccessful reform means winning or losing together
Canterbury, New Zealand transformed health and social care by building trust, aligning funding and accountability, and connecting services around patients rather than organisations
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CommentIgnorant NHSE is biased against primary care
Neighbourhood health will not succeed through new structures and contracts alone; it requires stronger family medicine, community services and local partnerships built around the needs of patients
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NewsNo ‘space’ for an IHO here, says trust CEO
The CEO of one of the NHS’s best-performing trusts has told HSJ he does not think “there’s much space” for an integrated health organisation in his area.
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CommentRestoring public faith in the NHS’s willingness to listen
The NHS collects millions of patient feedback responses, but a new project aims to ensure they translate into meaningful improvements in care
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NewsLong-awaited children’s cancer move delayed again
The transfer of a children’s cancer service, ordered after years of safety concerns, has been delayed again and will not happen before 2028.
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NewsNHS bosses admit defeat on 18-week pledge
NHS chiefs have told ministers that their top health manifesto pledge - to restore the 18-week elective target by 2029 - is “not going to happen”, as a new analysis confirms the service is significantly off track.
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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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CommentA fundamentally different concept of neighbourhood health
Neighbourhood health will fail if it simply makes the NHS better at managing rising demand
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NewsStaff exodus to private rivals forces trust to restrict service
A mental health and community trust has been forced to restrict its children’s ADHD service after a string of staff left for private providers.
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CommentA new approach to pain management is necessary and affordable
Chronic pain, trauma, and harmful substance use are often interconnected, highlighting the need for more integrated, person-centred community support
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CommentComing clean about dental rationing
NHS dentistry requires a shift from repeated contract tinkering towards explicit choices about rationing, equity and capacity, supported by a carefully sequenced package of reforms
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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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CommentNeighbourhood care should be a utility, not an empire
To make multi-neighbourhood providers work, general practice and hospitals must build a shared, non-profit utility they jointly control
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NewsTech problem delays elective reform target
Concerns have been raised about NHS England watering down a key target for its controversial “advice and guidance” scheme, just weeks ahead of the October deadline.
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NewsSix ‘neighbourhoods’ seek investors to ‘derisk’ expansion
Six “neighbourhood health” projects are being pump-primed by government to secure millions of pounds of private investment.
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CommentThe NHS is not ready for the revolution in dementia care
Dementia care could follow cancer’s path of transformation, but only if the NHS addresses longstanding weaknesses in diagnosis, workforce capacity, data and local delivery
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CommentCancer alliances have been reborn
Cancer alliances show how regional collaboration – not endless NHS restructuring – can drive early diagnosis, embrace innovation, and solve deep-seated workforce challenges
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NewsGrasp ‘politically unpopular’ mergers or face more deaths
Politically unpopular and “very difficult” decisions are required to tackle rising maternal death rates and improve safety, a leading academic has warned.
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NewsNHSE staff could be kept out of DHSC
Ministers and officials are considering whether to keep some NHS England functions and staff separate from the Department of Health and Social Care when the organisation is abolished next year, HSJ has learned.