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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Fears mount over corridor care, HSSIB reform and ‘never events’
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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HSJ LocalBoss leaves troubled trust after six months
The managing director of one of England’s worst-performing trusts is leaving after just six months, in a move her boss acknowledged could raise “understandable questions”.
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NewsTrust labelled ‘inadequate’ amid ‘serious safety concerns’
A trust has had its leadership rating downgraded from “good” to “inadequate”, and been told it has “significant and serious safety concerns” in surgical services.
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NewsGovernment will be ‘incredibly lucky’ if current elective care plan works
The government and NHS England is wrong to think that improvements in productivity, and not increased funding, will result in shorter elective waiting lists, the leader of the NHS Alliance has claimed.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: How trusts drove near-record improvements
Elective recovery and returning the NHS to meeting the 18-week standard by 2029 is the government’s main performance priority. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress against this goal. This week, by bureau chief James Illman.
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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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HSJ LocalEx-civil servant made trust CEO
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Nicola Ayton as its new permanent chief executive, the provider has announced.
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HSJ PartnersA minimally invasive standard of care: from ambition to reality
The next step for robotic-assisted surgery
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CommentManagers can prevent another contaminated blood scandal
On the eve of a national memorial, NHS leaders must confront preventable transfusion harm, embed safer practice, and deliver change
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News‘Only two weeks of stock’ at key supplier after Iran-linked cyber attack
NHS England believes there is only two weeks’ stock of crucial surgical equipment and other products following an Iran-linked cyber attack on a major medical technology supplier.
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NewsNational leaders’ ‘unwise’ comments put staff at ‘unnecessary risk’ of covid
NHS England alongside other health bodies made “unwise” statements on covid transmission at the start of the pandemic which put staff and patients at “unnecessary risk”, the chair of a public inquiry has said.
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NewsNHSE expects to declare victory on number one target
NHS England bosses are predicting they will get close enough to hitting 65 per cent against the 18-week standard by March to declare victory against their main performance objective for this year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE declares ‘rescue plan’ to limit delayed ops
NHS England has set out a “rescue package” that it claims will help limit the number of delays to joint operations, following a major production failure at the provider which supplies more than 80 per cent of the service’s medical cement.
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NewsExclusive: £120m ‘sprint’ will drive last-ditch attempt to hit elective target
NHS England plans to spend around £120m on a “sprint” exercise in a bid to hit its main elective target for this year by March, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsOrtho cement shortage no excuse for not improving elective performance, warns NHSE
Trusts must not let the “disastrous” shortage of orthopaedic cement affect their elective care performance, according to new national guidance.
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NewsWidescale delays to hip ops ‘crushing blow’ for patients
Hospitals are being forced to postpone large numbers of hip and knee operations for the coming months after NHS England’s main cement supplier suffered a major production failure in what has been described as a “crushing blow” for patients.
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CommentBlaming individuals for care failures is sometimes the right response
The Great Ormond Street scandal exposes a growing imbalance in NHS patient safety policy. In moving away from blame, the system has also lost sight of individual competence, leadership responsibility, and the non-negotiables needed to prevent serious harm
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NewsMinisters overclaimed impact of ‘crack’ elective teams
Elective activity has “barely increased” at the hospitals targeted with “crack teams” to cut waiting lists – contrary to ministers’ claims that the work has “turbocharged activity” – analysis reveals.
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NewsTrust to review claims of multiple cases of patient harm by surgeon
A trust is investigating the work of one of its former consultants amid claims the cases of “significantly more than 50 patients” he treated at its main site and a local private hospital should be reviewed for potential harm, HSJ has learned.
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NewsFive trusts ‘high outliers’ for ‘largely preventable’ infections
Five trusts with unusually high levels of surgical infections, which experts called “largely preventable” harm, have been identified by the UK’s health security agency.