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CommentThe best trained surgeon is not always the right medic for the job
The NHS should commission surgery from those doctors most appropriate to perform it. This does not always happen
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NewsTrust’s ‘off balance sheet’ funding plan rejected by NHSE
A trust’s proposed use of an off-balance-sheet funding model to finance the expansion of a new building project has been rejected by NHS England, forcing the cancellation of a £94m managed services contract.
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NewsSenior staff told to improve behaviour after bullying and racism findings
A trust has called for “tangible improvements” in behaviour from some of its senior clinicians, after an external review reported bullying, harassment, and racism.
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NewsThreat to remove resident doctors after racist incidents
One of England’s most challenged trusts faces resident doctors being removed from two specialties due to racism from staff and patients, board papers have revealed.
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News‘Nepotistic culture’ left poor behaviour unchecked, says review
Staff at a major acute trust described a “nepotistic culture” in which poor behaviour went unpunished, a review into how it handled staff concerns has found.
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HSJ Local‘Lives destroyed for speaking up’ at top hospital, claim doctors
Nearly 200 doctors at a major teaching hospital have told a “listening exercise” prompted by a major care scandal that they feared raising patient safety concerns.
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CommentWhat the NHS can learn from Indian healthcare
India’s experience shows the NHS can improve productivity and patient care by consistently applying proven operational disciplines
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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.