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NewsRecognise negative impact mutual aid can have on performance, pleads trust CEO
The chief executive of a trust that has fallen 34 places in NHS England’s provider performance league table has complained that the ranking fails to take into account its efforts to help neighbours.
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NewsExclusive: Trust admits to harming 200 patients
Almost 200 patients suffered harm after a major teaching trust failed to manage its neurological waiting lists effectively, HSJ has discovered.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Putting advice and guidance on ice
This week the national safety watchdog effectively called for a pause in NHS England’s “advice and guidance” rollout after linking it to two deaths.
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NewsExclusive: Watchdog links patient deaths to controversial NHSE policy
A watchdog has called for a pause in the rollout of NHS England’s “advice and guidance” policy to protect safety, and linked it to two patient deaths, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentValidations restrain the growing waiting list
The waiting list shrank slightly in June as unreported removals surged
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NewsTrusts failed to act on 9,000 lost patients for five years
Clinicians and managers knew of problems with an ear, nose, and throat waiting list five years before a backlog of nearly 9,000 patients came to light, an NHS England review has found.
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CommentBlocking referrals to private providers is a false economy
With more than a million people awaiting assessment, reform is needed to deliver faster, fairer neurodevelopmental care across England
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NewsWelsh government denies English hospital’s £20m demand
A Welsh health board is refusing to pay £21m as demanded by an English hospital trust in a cross-border funding dispute.
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NewsNHSE hires charity chief to create new directorate
NHS England has appointed a charity CEO to the new role of national director of patient experience.
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NewsRevealed: Biggest climbers and fallers on diagnostic waits
Eleven trusts recorded swings of more than 20 percentage points on the headline waiting target for diagnostic tests over the past year.
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NewsTen ICBs accused of blocking access to private care
Private providers have accused 10 integrated care boards of blocking access to eye care, which they argue is redirecting tens of thousands of patients to A&E and GPs.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2026, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentWaiting list grows again
The NHS missed its recovery trajectory by 89,000 patient pathways in May
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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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NewsNHSE orders ‘stocktake’ of patient communications
Trusts will be assessed on how they communicate with their patients as part of a “national stocktake” designed to ensure the NHS delivers “five-star customer service”, NHS England has announced.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: This year’s validation trick
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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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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NewsNew ‘simpler’ NHSE performance regime for acutes has 50% more metrics
The number of metrics used to measure the performance of acute trusts by NHS England has been increased from 23 to 35.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in April 2026, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentWait list growth in April cancels out March ‘sprint’
The trajectory for “18 weeks” recovery was missed by a record margin