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NewsDemanding A&E, elective and cancer targets for 2026-27 revealed
Trusts have been told to treat 82 per cent of A&E attendees within four hours next year, and must also hit a slew of other new targets revealed in the latest planning guidance.
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NewsGovernment delays new NHS workforce plan
The government has pushed back publication of its new NHS workforce plan to spring next year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsResident doctors to strike for five days next month
Resident doctors in England will strike for five days next month, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsTwo trusts removed from maternity probe
Two trusts have been removed from the health and social care secretary’s “rapid” national investigation into maternity services, a month after they were included.
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NewsNHSE intervenes over trust’s leadership failures
NHS England has taken legal enforcement action against one of England’s biggest teaching trusts over concerns about its leadership and governance.
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NewsDHSC to spend £8m on IT for NHSE takeover
The Department of Health and Social Care is expecting to spend at least £8m on new IT infrastructure to aid its takeover of NHS England’s functions.
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News‘Urgent’ inquiry into major trust called by Streeting
Ministers have taken what they described as the “exceptional step” of launching an “urgent” independent inquiry into maternity and neonatal care failings at one of England’s biggest teaching trusts.
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NewsPM: NHS is failing to deal with antisemitism
The government has announced a “short, sharp review” of antisemitism in the NHS, with the prime minister saying some cases are ”simply not being dealt with”.
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NewsInquiry chair: No time to ‘co-produce’ with families
Families have been told they cannot “co-produce” an investigation into how they were failed by maternity services because of the “timetable given” by government.
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NewsStreeting accused of ignoring nurses’ safety warning
Wes Streeting has failed to respond to an “urgent” warning from a clinical group that safety is being compromised by gaps in community services, HSJ has been told.
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NewsManagers’ pay rise blocked at 21 trusts and ICBs
Very senior managers at 21 poorly performing trusts and integrated care boards must not be awarded this year’s pay uplift, NHS England has confirmed.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Some progress but blame culture still persists
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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LeaderThe government will pay for its mistreatment of ICB and NHSE staff
If you are a) an NHS employee who works as a commissioner or in a system role, and b) have been only moderately unlucky, you might have spent a good part of the past 15 years wondering if you would still have a job in a few months’ time, inundated ...
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Are NHS finances too good to be true?
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsDHSC GP adviser steps down
Wes Streeting’s neighbourhood health and primary care lead is stepping down, after less than a year in the role and having recently launched an implementation programme.
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NewsStreeting hires delivery adviser with no health experience
Wes Streeting is drafting in an education expert as his senior adviser on delivery, despite disagreements in his department about the role.
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NewsCuts to centre stopped under Labour
Two years of cuts to NHS England’s workforce came to an end under the first 12 months of the Labour government, despite ministers’ plans to cut the centre, figures show.
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NewsExclusive: Streeting orders probe of mental illness overdiagnosis
The health and social care secretary is to launch a review of the prevalence of mental illness and neurodivergence, with a particular focus on whether some conditions are being overdiagnosed, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Report delivers damning verdict on Labour’s ‘muddy’ health policy
The government’s health policy is incoherent, lacking in detail and under-resourced, a highly critical report by a leading think tank on Labour’s first year in power has concluded.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Maternity services need change now, not in 2030
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe