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NewsPrivate provider’s NHS income up 16%
Spire Healthcare’s NHS revenue surged by 16 per cent in the six months to June, driven by an increase in “high complexity” orthopaedic work, according to its accounts.
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CommentElective recovery is leaving minority ethnic patients behind
New analysis reveals stark inequalities in elective care waits, highlighting deprivation, ethnicity, and digital exclusion as key barriers to equitable recovery
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NewsExclusive: Trust reviewing 9,000 patients lost from waiting list
A trust has launched an independent investigation examining nearly 9,000 patients who were “lost to first appointment or follow up”, with some waiting up to five years, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentList cleaning keeps elective recovery on track
Validation exercises kept waiting list recovery on track in May… but the outlook is poor for June and July’s figures.
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NewsPrivate hospitals to lose £60m from in-year tariff changes
Private providers are set to lose more than £60m from a proposed cut to prices paid for cataract procedures.
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CommentHow improved patient flow meant no out-of-area placements for two years
Graeme Caul, chief operating officer at Central and North West London Foundation Trust, outlines how the trust achieved two years without out-of-area placements
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2025: Driving Change Through Data and Analytics Award
WINNER East of England Cancer Alliance: Closing The Gap on Cancer Waits in the East of England
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in April 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentReducing referrals must not come at the cost of women’s health
As integrated care boards are told to curb elective referrals, ring-fenced funding for women’s health hubs is being withdrawn, even though they’ve proven to reduce waiting lists and improve care, writes Ranee Thakar
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CommentElective recovery on track after validation boost
When the validations are over, we will see if the NHS really is on track to restore 18 weeks
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NewsTrust predicts ‘standstill’ in very long waits
A trust has called in a private provider to help address very long diagnostic waits, but admits they will remain at a “standstill” without “further investment”.
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NewsNHSE tells ICBs to slow elective referrals
NHS England has told integrated care boards they need to slow down elective referrals dramatically – nearly eliminating year-on-year growth – with high-profile waiting list targets under threat.
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HSJ PartnersAI is transforming radiology, but perhaps not in the way you think
Hexarad CEO and ex-NHS consultant radiologist Farzana Rahman explores how AI-driven technology is helping NHS trusts cut costs and reduce the administrative burden on overstretched clinicians.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in March 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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News‘Life saving’ rapid test not available at most CDCs
Patients are facing “unnecessary and worrying” waits because a rapid heart failure test is not available at most of the NHS’s 169 community diagnostic centres, experts have told HSJ.
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CommentWait list grows for first time in seven months
Seasonal growth has overwhelmed recent sluggish improvements, writes Rob Findlay
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NewsMajor provider joins NHSE’s most challenged group
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has joined four other trusts in NHS England’s most challenged category for all three of elective, diagnostic and cancer performance.
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NewsChildren waiting more than two years for tooth extractions
Children needing a general anaesthetic for tooth extraction are waiting nearly three years in a hidden crisis that is not recorded on national waiting lists.
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NewsPrivate providers costing ICB ‘three times more’ than NHS equivalent
NHS-funded access to private autism and ADHD services is “unsustainable” and “up to three times more expensive than our local provision”, according to an integrated care board’s review.