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NewsICB issues tougher spending rules for local trusts
Several trusts in the South West are being asked to restrict all non-essential spending due to their “challenging financial position”.
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NewsNHSE approves first six ‘advanced’ FTs
NHS England has approved the first six “advanced foundation trusts”, with the promise of “greater operational autonomy” and more financial freedom from 1 June.
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News21 trusts ‘delivered year’s elective recovery in single month’
Twenty-one trusts delivered their entire 2025-26 elective improvement in March alone, analysis shows, prompting concerns about the “fragility and sustainability” of the NHS’s waiting list recovery.
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NewsSix ICBs chosen to lead specialised commissioning
Just one of the seven NHS England regions has yet to decide which organisation will host the patch’s joint commissioning of specialised and some other services.
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News‘New hospitals’ paired with builders for projects worth £14bn
Eleven “new hospitals” have been matched with construction firms to build their projects, valued at up to around £14bn, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrusts expect to miss emergency care target
Four of England’s 10 ambulance trusts are expecting to miss the headline response time target for 2026-27, according to their plans for the year.
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NewsThree times more GPs leaving some ICBs
Some systems saw fully qualified GPs leave their roles at three times the rate of other patches last year, according to new figures.
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NewsMackey’s heir named number one trust CEO
The top two trust chief executives in the 12th edition of HSJ’s annual ranking of the most respected provider CEOs have taken very different routes to the summit.
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NewsFourteen trusts rated red for ‘capability’
NHS England has rated 14 trusts “red” for “capability” – meaning their management has been unable to “grip” long-running problems.
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NewsHospitals seek £50m from renting out cancer capacity
A hospital trust is offering to rent out two of its radiotherapy treatment rooms to an external provider to treat private patients, in a deal worth £50m.
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NewsMidlands and East become handover hotspots
Five general hospital trusts – four of them in the East of England – saw a substantial increase in ambulance handover times this winter, against a backdrop of national improvement.
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NewsEpic trusts reject use of FDP
Almost all trusts using the Epic electronic patient record system have resisted using the federated data platform, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsNearly half of 999 patients don’t need major A&E treatment
Nearly half of patients who arrive at hospital in ambulances are being discharged without needing major care, according to data obtained by HSJ.
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NewsTrusts facing ‘impossible job’ to integrate GP data
A leading tech chief has said she faces an “impossible job” in trying to get primary and secondary care IT systems to be interoperable with one another.
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NewsTrust cancels ‘inefficient and expensive’ integration contract
An acute trust has decided to end a 20-year-long partnership agreement with a local authority to deliver adult social care services as the model has become “inefficient and expensive”.
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NewsTrust and ICB ‘digital maturity’ scores revealed
Scores rating the “digital maturity” of all trusts and integrated care boards for the past two years have been published by NHS England.
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NewsFour trusts rated ‘red’ on baby deaths
Four hospital trusts have been assessed as having higher than expected rates of both stillbirth and neonatal deaths, according to HSJ analysis of a national safety audit.
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NewsEx-hospital chief to lead ICB cluster
An experienced former hospital chief executive has been appointed as CEO of an integrated care board cluster for at least 12 months.
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NewsICB morale plummets amid restructures
Nearly half of integrated care boards opted out of the 2025 Staff Survey, and those that took part saw a huge drop in morale amid restructuring.
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NewsUS firm seals NHS tech deal worth £222m
Four trusts across two integrated care systems have signed a £222m contract with a US supplier for a new shared electronic patient record system.